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A32941 Articles of visitation and enquiry within the diocess of Chichester, in the first episcopal visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God, Peter, by divine permission, Lord Bishop of Chichester in the second year of his consecration. Church of England. Diocese of Chichester. Bishop (1669-1675 : Gunning); Gunning, Peter, 1614-1684. 1670 (1670) Wing C4027; ESTC R40820 16,328 25

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ARTICLES OF VISITATION and ENQUIRY Within the Diocess of CHICHESTER In the First Episcopal Visitation of the Right Reverend Father in God PETER by Divine Permission Lord Bishop of Chichester In the Second Year of his Consecration LONDON Printed by A. Maxwell 1670. 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 For your direction wherein you shall duly consider all and every of these Articles given you in charge and neither present nor spare to present any for favour or malice hope of reward or fear of displeasure So help you God 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 of Religion ●n the Soul 's 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 Sociman or Arrian Heresie denying the Eternal Godhead of the Lord Iesus or Pelagian denying the nece●sity of 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 contain'd in the thrée Créeds ought not throughly to be receiv'd and believed or that the Church hath not Authority in Controversies of faith III. Is there any in your Parish 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 ●ll things necessary to Salvation Or is there any that d●th ●ffirm and teach that the xxxix Articles agreed upon by the Arch B●shops 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 P●rish that doth affirm and teach that the form of God's W●rship in the Church of England established by law and contain'd 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 Primitiv● Church V. Is there any that doth affirm or teach and who is he that Baptism of Infants according to 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 ●hurch's Order and dying before they commit ●ctual st●●●re not saved everlastingly through God's grace given th●m in Baptis● VI. Is there any who doth affirm or teach that the K●ng's Majesty hath not the same Preroga●ive in C●uses E●●●●si●st●cal which we see hath been given ●lwaies to ●ll god●y Princes by God himself both among the Iews and in the Christian Church Or that doth any way deny or impugn the King's Majesty's Royal Authority or Supremacy in C●use● Ecclesiastical in this Realm Or who denies that within his Maiestie's Realms of England Scotland and 〈◊〉 and all other his Dominions and Countries our Lord the King is the highest Power under God to whom the chief G●vernment of all Estates whether they be Ecclesiastical or Civil in ●ll 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 〈◊〉 under his Majesty by Arch-Bishops Bishops Deans Arch-De●cons 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 Antichristi●n or repugnant to the ●ord of God or to the practice of the Catholick Church Or th●t pers●●s so ordained Bishops Priests or De●cons h●●e not s●ffic●ent external calling or that they ought not to be 〈◊〉 truly Bishops Priests or Deacons till they h●ve some other external calling unto those divine Offices or 〈◊〉 teaches that those three Holy Orders above●●●● have not b●en ever in Christ's Church even from the Apostles time VIII Is there any in your P●●i●h ●nd who is h● that by separation of himself from the Church or by joyning himself to Convonticles breaks the Communion of the Church of England 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 Congreg●tions 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 Chu●ch of England by law established are Antichristian supe●stitious or frivolous Or any way unlawful or burdensome or such as may not be subscrib'd unto and practis'd with a good consc●ence or that the Church hath no power to decrée any such Rites and Ceremonies Concerning the Clergy their Duty and Office I. IS the Parson Uicar or also Curate in holy Orders by Episcopal Ordination a Pri●st ordained according to the laws of the Church of England hath he béen legally instituted and inducted into his Benefice or is he known or suspected to have obtain●d his Parsonage or Uicaridge by any Symoniacal Contract II. Did he within two Months after his Induction publickly in your Church or Chappel upon som● Sunday or Holy-day in the time of D●vine S●rvice openly read the xxxix Articles established by Authorit● in this Church A.D. 1562 and then profess and publish his assent and subscribe his name thereto in the presence of the Church W●rdens Do you not know or have you not ●ear● that ●n his reading or pretending to read those xxxix Articles he p●ssed 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 u●read Di● your P●rson Uicar or Curate upon some Lord●-d●y before ●he Feast of St. ●●rtholomew A.D. 1662 or some Lord●-day within two Months after Sis Induction solemnly read in your Church or Chappel both Morning and Evening Prayer as it is appointed in the book Common-Prayer by law established And did he after such reading publickly before the