Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bishop_n	church_n	england_n	1,563	5	6.0318	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68015	Articles to be inquired of vvithin the dioces of Ely in the first visitation of the R. Reverend Father in God Matthevv, Lord Bishop of Ely.; Visitation articles. 1638	Church of England. Diocese of Ely. Bishop (1638-1667 : Wren)	1638 (1638)	STC 10197; ESTC R960	26,209	24

ARTICLES TO BE INQVIRED OF VVITHIN THE DIOCES OF ELY In the first Visitation of the R. Reverend Father in God MATTHEVV LORD BISHOP OF ELY Printed at London by Richard Badger 1638. The Tenour of the Oath to be ministred to the Church-wardens and any other of every Parish that shall be sworne to make Presentments YOu shall sweare that you and every one of you shall and will truly consider and diligently enquire of every one of these Articles here given you in charge and of all the branches thereof and make true answer to all particulars therein demanded and that all affection or favour or hatred or hope of reward or gaine or feare of displeasure or malice of any person and all other pretences set aside you shall and will present every such person of your Parish or within it as hath committed any offence or fault or made any default mentioned in any of these Articles or which is vehemently suspected or otherwise defamed of any such offence fault or default wherein you shall deale uprightly and fully according to the truth neither presenting nor sparing to present any contrary to the truth Having in this action God before your eyes with an earnest zeale to maintaine truth and vertue and to suppresse vice and to discharge your owne consciences So help you God and the Holy Contents of this Booke GOD SAVE THE KING Articles to be inquired of in the Dioces of Ely at the Visitation holden in the yeare of our LORD 1638. Chap. 1. Concerning Religion Doctrine and Church-government ARE there any abiding in your Parish or resorting to it who as farre as you know or haue credibly heard from persons of déeper iudgment do at any time preach teach deliuer publish or maintaine any heresie or any erroneous false opinion contrary to the faith of CHRIST or any sentence matter or cause which hath heretofore béene determined ordered or adiudged to be heresie by the authority of the Canonicall Scriptures or by the first foure generall Councels or any of them or by any other generall Councell determining the same to be heresie by the expresse words of holy Scripture Or are there any which do deny or impugne any of the 39 Articles of Religion agréed vpon in Anno 1562. and established in the Church of England And is the Declaration which the Kings Maiesty prefixed before those 39 Articles concerning the selling of the questions late in difference duly obserued by all within your Parish according to His Maiesties commandement 2 Be there any in your Parish that haue denied or perswaded any other to deny withstand or impugne the Kings Maiesties authority and supremacy in causes Ecclesiasticall within this Realme 3 Be there any in your Parish that haue affirmed that the Forme of consecrating Bishops and making Priests and Deacons as it is vsed in the Church of England is not holy right true and lawfull Or that the Gouernment of this Church vnder the Kings Maiestie by Archbishops Bishops Deanes Archdeacons and other Ecclesiasticall Officers is vnlawfull or antichristian 4 Is there in your Parish any that hath béene or is vehemently suspected to have béene present at any vnlawfull assemblies conuenticles or méetings vnder colour or pretence of any exercise of Religion or do any affirme and maintaine such méetings to be lawfull 5 Be there any abiding in or resorting to your Parish that are commonly reputed to be ill affected in matter of the religion professed in our Church or taken to be Recusant Papists or factious separatists refusing to repaire vnto the Church to heare diuine Seruice and to receiue the holy Communion Or that haue or do publish sell or disperse or conueigh to others any superstitious seditious or schismaticall Bookes Libels or Writings touching the Religion State or Ecclesiasticall gouernment of this Kingdome of England Present their names qualities and conditions if you know or haue heard of any 6 Haue any in your Parish spoken or declared anything in derogation or deprauation of the forme of Gods worship and the set forme of common prayer prescribed and established in the Church of England or in dislike of the administration of the Sacraments or of the other Rites and Ceremonies set forth and prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer and the Canons Ecclesiasticall Or do any preach speak and declare that the Booke of Common Prayer containeth any thing that is repugnant to the holy Scripture or not meet to be vsed Or do vse any scomfull words against those godly Sermons called the Homilies of the Church Chap. 2. Concerning Publike Prayer and the Administration of the Holy Sacraments c. 1 HAth any in your Parish caused procured or maintained any Minister to say any common or publike prayer or to administer the Sacrament of Baptisme or of the Lords Supper otherwise or in any other maner than is mentioned in the Book of Common Prayer Or hath any interrupted hindered let or disturbed the Minister in reading of diuine Seruice or administring the Sacraments in such manner as is mentioned in the said booke Or hath any interrupted him in his preaching or reading the Homilies 2 Is the Sacrament of Baptisme rightly and duly administred according to the forme prescribed in the Booke of Common Prayer with due obseruation of all Rites and Ceremonies prescribed to be vsed in the same without adding or altering of any part of any prayers or interrogatories Is the signe of the Crosse euery time vsed and the Surplice neuer but worne in the administring of it 3 Hath the administration of the Sacrament of Baptisme béene at any time deferred longer than till the next Sunday or Holiday immediately following the birth of the childe And do they all come to Church when a child is to be baptized at or about the beginning of diuine Seruice And is the baptizing performed immediately after the second Lesson 4 Hath the Sacrament of Baptisme béen refused to be administred to any children borne in or out of wedlock their birth being made known to the Minister of the Parish and they offered vnto him to be baptized Or haue any such children died vnbaptized 5 Haue the parents of the childe baptised béene at any time admitted to be Godfathers or Godmothers to the same Or haue any béene admitted to be Godfathers or Godmothers to any childe before they haue receiued the holy Communion Or haue there béene admitted more or lesse than two Godfathers and one Godmother for a male child and two Godmothers and one Godfather for a female Or haue any Godfathers or Godmothers vsed any other answers or spéech in Baptisme than is by the Book of Common Prayer appointed Or haue they giuen to the children baptised any name that is absurd or inconuenient for so holy an action 6 Haue any children béene baptised in priuate houses except vpon great necessity and if so what was the same or by any Lay-person or Midwife or Popish Priest or by any other than your owne Minister And haue all

without Repentance or any that haue maliciously and openly contended with their neighbours before they bée reconciled or any Church-wardens or Side-m●…n who hauing taken their oathes to present to their Ordinary all such publike offences as they are particularly charged to enquire of in the Parish have and doe notwithstanding wittingly and irreligiously incurre the horrible crime of periury either in neglecting or refusing to present such publike offences as they themselues know or haue heard to bée committed within your Parish 20 Hath your Minister at any time admitted vnto the Communion any that refuse to be present at publike prayers or who are notorious deprauers of the Booke of Common Prayer and administration of the Sacraments or of the Orders Rites or Ceremonies therein prescribed or of any thing contained in the thirty nine Articles or in the Book of ordaining Priests and Bishops Or who haue spoken against or depraued his Maiesties Soueraigne Authority in causes Ecclesiasticall vnlesse they and euery of them doe first acknowledge their repentance for their sin and promise to do so no more 21 Doth your Minister or Curate admit any to the Communion before they can say their Catechisme and be confirmed 22 Doth your Minister together with the Church-wardens and Quest-men take diligent héed and care not only that all and euery one of your owne Parishioners do receiue thrice euery yéere but also that no strangers of any other Parish doe come often and commonly to your Church from their owne Parish Church or do there receiue the holy Communion 23 Doth your Minister before the seuerall times of administration of the Lords Supper admonish and exhort his Parishioners if any of them haue their Conscience troubled and disquieted to resort vnto him or to some other learned Minister and open their griefe that they may receiue such ghostly counsell and comfort as their conscience may be relieued and by the Minister they may receiue the benefit of Absolution to the quiet of their Conscience and auoiding of all scruple And if any man confesse his secret and hidden sinnes being sicke or whole to the Minister for the vnburthening of his conscience and receiuing of spirituall consolation or ease of minde from him Doth he the said Minister or hath he at any time by word writing or signe openly or couertly directly or indirectly reueale and make knowne to any person whatsoeuer any Crime or Offence so committed to his trust and secrecie 24 Hath your Minister solemnized the Mariage of any person under the age of twenty one yéeres without the consent of their Parents or Gouernours or hath hée maried any which doe not audibly say and answer in all things appointed by the Liturgie or any without a King or in times prohibited or without the Banes first published thrée seuerall Sundaies or Holidaies in time of diuine Seruice in the seuerall Churches or Chappels of their seuerall abodes except they brought him a speciall licence from the Arch-bishop or Bishop of the Dioces or his Chancellor so to doe And both hée begin in the body of the Church and then goe up to the Table as to appointed Also doth your Minister so oft as there is any mariage appoint to haue a Communion After the Gospell doth hee say a Sermon if hée bée licenced to preach wherein to declare the office of man and wife according to holy Scripture Or else doth hee read that which the Church hath appointed to bée read at Matrimony 25 Doth your Minister vse the forme of thanksgiuing for women after childe-birth immediately before the Communion Seruice Or hath hée admitted thereunto any women begotten with child in Adultery or Fornication without licence of his Ordinary 26 Doth your Minister carefully looke to the reliefe of the poore and from time to time call vpon his Parishioners to giue somewhat according to their abilities to godly and charitable vses especially doth be enforce it vpon them with earnest exhortation as is prescribed at the time of the oblation or offering before the Communion and vpon their sick beds or when they make their wils 27 Doth your Minister or Curate resort vnto such as bée dangerously sicke in your Parish if he be sent for or notice of their sicknesse being given vnto him to instruct or comfort them in their distresses according to the order of the Book of Common Prayer not omitting then especially to moue them earnestly to liberality towards the ●…oore 28. If any being sicke doe desire the prayers of the Congregation is it done at the time of diuine Seruice after the thrée Collects and according to the forme in the Liturgie for the Visitation of the sick and not onely by giuing their names to the Preacher and mentioning of them in the Pulpit before or after a Sermon 29 Hath your Minister euer refused to bury any which ought to bee interred with Christian buriall Or hath hee deferred the same longer than hee should Doth hee goe before the Corps to the Graue and there say the whole seruice appointed not omitting the Lesson or any other part Doth be deuoutly kneele when hee saith the prayers and the Collects at buriall or hath hee admitted any to Christian buriall which by the Lawes of the holy Church of this Realme ought not to bee so interred 30 Doth your Minister being a Preacher well studied indiuinity and hauing any Popish Recusant or Recusants in your Parish labour diligently with them from time to time to reclame them from their errors Or otherwise is he ouer conuersant with them or suspected to fauour them 31 Hath your Minister or any other taking upon him the calling of a Minister preached baptized children except in case of necessity solemnized mariage churched any women or ministred the holy Communion in any private house or houses If yea then where when and how often hath he done it 32 Doe you know or haue heard of any which are reputed to bee Ministers or of any other of the Laity either Male or Female that presume to make matters of Diuinity their ordinary Table-talk Or that under pretence of holynesse and edification take the liberty at their Trencher-meetings or where seuerall company not being all of the same family are assembled rashly and prophanely to discourse of holy Scripture Or amidst their cups to dispute or determine any Articles of Faith and Religion or touching any point of doctrine or Ecclesiasticall discipline at their owne pleasure did to their owne phansie you shall name the persons times and places as far as you know or haue heard and can remember 33 Doth your Minister euery six moneths in your Parish Church openly in the time of diuine Seruice vpon some Sunday denounce and declare excommunicate by name such as doe perseuere in the sentence of excommunication not seeking to be absolued And hath hee said diuine Seruice whiles any excommunicate person hath béene present in the Church Or hath admitted any person that hath beene excommunicate into the Church without a