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A32947	Articles of visitation and enquiry within the diocess of Ely in the second episcopal visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God Peter by divine permission Lord Bishop of Ely in the fifth year of his translation.	Church of England. Diocese of Ely. Bishop (1675-1684 : Turner); Gunning, Peter, 1614-1684.	1679 (1679)	Wing C4037; ESTC R27643	17,261	26

ARTICLES OF VISITATION and ENQUIRY Within the Diocess of ELY IN THE Second Episcopal Visitation OF THE Right Reverend FATHER in GOD PETER By Divine Permission LORD BISHOP of ELY In the fifth Year of his Translation LONDON Printed by S. Roycroft 1679. The Tenour of the Oath to be administred to the Church-wardens and Side-men YOU shall Swear diligently to Enquire and true Presentment make of every person now or lately of your Parish which hath made any default or offence enquirable by the King's Laws Ecclesiastical and become known unto you So help you God and the Contents of his Holy Gospel Articles of Instruction and Direction to the Church-wardens and Side-men of what they are to take more especial Notice in their Presentments Concerning Religion and the Government of the Church Established in this Realm IMprimis Is there any in your Parish who are guilty of Atheistical or blasphemous Speeches against the Majesty of Almighty God or Scoffers at Religion and the Souls future immortal state Is there any guilty of Speeches of Infidelity against the faith of our Lord Iesus Christ Any who in their communication or otherwise defend the Socinian or Arrian Heresie denying the Eternal Godhead of the Lord Iesus or Pelagian denying the necessity of his Grace and of Baptism for the washing away of Original Sin II. Is there any one that doth affirm or teach and who is he that the holy Scripture doth not contain all things necessary to Salvation or that what is contained in the 3 Creeds ought not throughly to be received and believed or that the Church hath not Authority in Controversies of Faith III. Is there any that doth affirm and teach that the Church of England by law established is not a true and Apostolical Church and a true member of the Catholick Church having in her all things necessary to Salvation Or is there any that doth affirm and teach that the XXXIX Articles agreed upon by the Arch-bishops and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole Clergy in the Convocation holden at London A.D. 1562. are in any part erroneous or superstitious or such as may not with a good conscience be subscribed unto IV. Is there any in your Parish that doth affirm and teach that the Form of God's Worship in the Church of England established by law and contained in the Book of Common Prayer and Administration of Sacraments is a corrupt Popish or any way superstitious or unlawful Worship of God or containeth any thing in it that is repugnant to Scripture or to the Doctrine and Worship in the Catholick or Primitive Church V. Is there any that doth affirm or teach and who is he that Baptism of Infants according as is practised in the Church of England is unlawful or unnecessary or better to be delayed or not appointed for the Remission of Sins or that it may be repeated or that Infants duly baptized according to the Churches Order and dying before they commit actual sin are not saved everlastingly through God's grace given them in Baptism VI. Is there any who doth affirm or teach that the king's Majesty hath not the same Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical which we see hath been given always to all godly Princes by God himself both among the Iews and in the Christian Church Or that doth any way deny or impugn the king's Majesties Royal Authority or Supremacy in Causes Ecclesiastical in this Realm Or who denies that within his Majesties Realms of England Scotland and Ireland and all other his Dominions and Countries our Lord the king is the highest Power under God to whom the chief Government of all Estates whether they be Ecclesiastical or Civil in all Causes doth appertain without any subjection due from Him or his Subjects to any foreign Iurisdiction VII Is there any who doth affirm and teach and who is he that the Government of the Church of England under his Majesty by Arch-bishops Bishops Deans Arch-Deacons or other chief Ministers bearing office in the same or that the forms or manner of Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons established by law contains any thing that is Antichristian or repugnant to the word of God or to the practice of the Catholick Church Or that persons so ordained Bishops Priests or Deacons have not sufficient external calling or that they ought not to be accounted truly Bishops Priests or Deacons till they have some other external calling unto those divine Offices or that teaches that those three holy Orders abovesaid have not been ever in Christ's Church even from the Apostles time VIII Is there any in your Parish and who is he that separating himself from this Church and from the Communion of Saints therein joyning himself to Conventicles breaks the Communion of the Church of England and so the Communion of the Catholick Church of whose Communion hers is a part or accounts of others as prophane and none of the godly for their orderly conforming themselves to the Church of England as established by law Or that any combining themselves in Assemblies or Congregations of the king's born Subjects within this Land other then such as by the Laws of this Land are held and allowed may truly take unto themselves the name of another purer Church or of the Church of England IX Is there any who doth affirm and teach and who is he that the Rites and Ceremonies and the Rules of the Church of England by law established are Antichristian superstitious or frivolous or any way unlawful or such as may not be subscribed unto and practised with a good conscience or that the Church hath no power to decree any such Rites and Ceremonies Concerning the Clergy their Duty and Office I. IS your Parson Vicar or also Curate in holy Orders by Episcopal Ordination a Priest ordained according to the laws of the Church of England hath he been legally instituted and inducted into his Benefice or is he known or suspected to have obtained his Parsonage or Vicarage by any Symoniacal Contract II. Did he within two Months after his Induction publickly in your Church or Chappel upon some Sunday or Holy day in the time of Divine Service openly read the XXXIX Articles ' established by Authority in this Church A. D. 1562. and then profess and publish his assent and subscribe his name thereto in the presence of the Church-wardens Do you not know or have you not heard that in his reading or pretending to read those XXXIX Articles he passed over some one or more of them or some part of one or more and what part of the Articles was it that he left unread Did your Parson Vicar or Curate upon some Lord's-day within two Months after his Induction solemnly read in your Church or Chappel both the Morning and Evening Prayer as it is appointed in the Book of Common-Prayer by law established And did he after such reading

publickly before the Congregation declare his unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things in the said Book contained as is prescribed in the Act of Parliament made for the Uniformity of publick Prayers And did he within three Months after his Induction in your Church or Chappel in publick upon some Lord's day read a Certificate under the hand and seal of the Arch-bishop or Bishop Ordinary of the Diocess that he the said Parson Vicar or Curate did before his admission to be Incumbent subscribe a declaration of the unlawfulness to take up arms against the king and of his conforming to the Liturgy of this Church and of his disavowing the unlawful Oath commonly called The Solemn League and Covenant according as is prescribed in the aforesaid Act for Uniformity III. Or after his lawful Entrance is your Parson or Vicar resident upon his benefice or if his residence be legally dispensed with is his place supplied by a Curate allowed by the Bishop and a licensed Preacher and constantly resident among you and what yearly stipend doth your Minister allow him And if your Parson or Vicar be both resident himself and keep a Curate also doth he notwithstanding himself at least once a Month openly read Common Prayer in your Church or Chappel and if there be occasion administer each Sacrament in such order manner and form as is prescribed in the Liturgy and Canons of this Church IV. Having both lawful Entrance and Residence among you is he your Parson Vicar or also Curate of blameless conversation the Husband of one Wife sober grave not double tongu'd not given to much wine not greedy of filthy lucre ruling his Children and his own house well sound in faith in charity in patience Or on the contrary is he a frequenter of Taverns or Ale-houses a common Gamester a prophane or obscene jester a swearer railer scoffer or quarreller Doth he set his Neighbours at variance one with another Doth he familiarly converse with persons Excommunicate ungodly or vicious Doth he resort to suspected and infamous houses Or is he himself vehemently suspected of Incontinency with any person within or without your Parish Or doth your Curate or Minister lodge or board at any Tavern Inn Ale-house or house of any ill report V. Doth your Minister or Curate plainly audibly distinctly and reverently read the Divine Service of Morning and Evening-Prayer without any diminution in regard of Preaching or any other respect addition or alteration upon all Sundays and Holy-days not omitting also other days appointed by the Book of Common-Prayer as fit and usual times as Wednesdays and Fridays with the Litanies added and the Eves of every Sunday and Holy day with Ember and Rogation days And moreover when he is at home and not otherwise reasonably hindred himself and able to get two or three gathered together doth he every day say Divine Service Morning and Evening in the Parish-Church where he ministers and cause a bell to be toll'd thereunto that the People may come to hear God's Word and to pray with him VI. Doth your Minister reverently and publickly at the Font only and that without the use of a Basin Administer the holy Sacrament of Baptism Or doth he refuse or delay to Christen any Child that is brought to him to Church on any Sunday or Holy-day knowledge thereof being given to him over Night or in the Morning before Morning Prayer or neglect to persuade all these who have the use of Reason and are still unbaptiz'd having been seduced by Anabaptists to come to holy Baptism and doth he take care for their Baptism as in the Common-Prayer-Book is prescribed In the solemn Publick Baptism doth he Baptize any without God-fathers or God-mothers Or doth he then refuse or neglect to sign the Child baptized with the sign of the Cross Or doth he admit such to be a God-father or God mother who are either one of the Parents of the Child or who have not themselves received the holy Communion VII Doth your Minister duly and reverently Administer the holy Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ our Lord so often at least and at such times as every Parishioner may communicate at the least three times in every year in publick whereof the Feast of Easter to be one And doth he reverently and carefully in all things observe all the Churches Order in the Celebration Doth he give warning publickly in the Church at Morning-Prayer the Sunday before for the better preparation of his Parishioners And do such as purpose to Communicate signifie their Names at least some time the day before and when he seeth the People negligent to come to the Communion doth he use the Churches second Exhortation and when there is no Communion doth your Minister every Sunday and Holy-day throughout the year read so much of the Communion Service as is appointed to be read by the Book of Common-Prayer and at the place appointed if he can thence be well heard of all thereby professing his and the Churches readiness to the more frequent Celebration of the Holy Eucharist if Communicants were not wanting VIII Doth your Minister wittingly admit to the receiving the Holy Communion any one such who is known to live in open and notorious sin without Repentance or that has wronged his Neighbour by word or deed so as that the Congregation is thereby offended or any such betwixt whom he perceives malice or hatred to reign and will not be reduced by him to a reconcilement or to any who refuse to be present at the other publick Prayers of the Church or to any that be common or notorious depravers of the Book of Common-Prayer or of any thing contained in the XXXIX Articles or in the Book of Ordaining Bishops Priests and Deacons or to any that has spoken against His Majesties Supreme Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical except such persons do first acknowledge to the Minister before you the Church-Wardens his Repentance for the same and promise under his hand if he can write or otherwise by word of mouth that he will do so no more Or lastly to any that refuse to receive the said Holy Communion kneeling And of all such persons by him put from the Communion doth he give an account to his Ordinary according to Law IX Doth he at the Celebration of the Holy Communion in the due places appointed by the Liturgy take the Paten into his hands and break the Bread and lay his hand upon all the Bread and after likewise take the Cup into his hand and lay his hand upon it and every Vessel in which there is any Wine to be Consecrated and when that which was Consecrated is spent doth he communicate to any persons without Consecrating more according to the form prescribed and doth he severally deliver the Bread and Wine to every Communicant and at his delivering the same