as he listeth himself and when all hâve communicated doth he cover whât remâineth of the Consecrated Elements wiâh a fair Linnen-cloth and what remains is it reverently eaten and drunken by some of the Communicants within your Câurch X Iââny person siâk or in health especially before the Recââving thâ Holy Communion fiâding his conscience troubled with any wâighty mâtters doth for the quieting of his conscience and for fuââher comfort and counsel unburden his conscience to his Priest or Minister doth then the said Priest or Minister upon special confession of his sins made to make which âlâo hâ is by the Minister to be moved upon his repentance administer unto him absolution together with Ghostly counsel and advice and have you ever heard that the said Priest or Minister haâh reveal'd or made known at any time to any person whatsoever directly or indirectly any crime or offence confessed to him in secret by any such Penitents whatsosoever except they be such crimes as by the Laws of this Realm for the publick concern the Life of the said Priest may and ought to be called in question for concealing of them II. Is youâ Minister â liâensed Preacher by the Bishop or either of the two Universities and if so doth he then constantly â unless in case of sickness necessary absence or other reasonablâ impedâment himself preach in your Church or Chappel or in some other near adjoyning one Sermon every Lords-day or in such cases of impediment doth he procure some lawful Minister and licensed Preacher to read Prayeâs and to preâch one Sermon and to peâform other Ministerial Duties each such Day besides the Fââstâ of Christs Nativity Passion and Ascension at the least or if no Sermon be take care that one of the Homââieâ set forth by Authority be there read by a Priest or Deacon lawfully ordained on every Sunday and Holy-day in the Year hath he in his own Sermons at any time or in other Discourse as you know or have heard of preached or maintain'd any unsound Heretical Seditioâs or Schismatical Doctrine so far as you can judg or spoken ought privately in contempt of Religion or that Religion or any part of it which he by his office in this Church professeth XII Doth he or any other admitted to preach in your Church omit before his Sermon or Homily briefly to move and exhort the people in the form laid down in the 55 th Canon or to the same effect declaring for whom and for what mercies they are to pray and to give God thanks to joyn with him finally in Prayer for all those mercies in that most Holy and Comprehensible Prayer of our Lord XIII Doth your Minister diligently catechize the Youth of your Pârish every Sunday and Holy-day by way of Question and Answer according to the Church's publick Catechism or also further instruct them in the sense thereof as he shall think fit and this after the second lesson openly in the Church Doth he by this and all other good meâns and admonitions prepare and procure them as occasion is offer'd devoutly to come and seek to be confirmed by the Bishop and himself either bring or send in writiting under his hand the names ofâ all such persons in his Parish as he shall find by his Examination fit to be presented to the Bishop humbly to seek and ask that benefit of Confirmation XIV Doth your Minister endeavour privately to reclaim reduce all Popish Recusants all Sectaries in your Parish to the Communion in the publick and established Worship of God in this Church Is he also ready to visit the sick And doth he call upon them to receive the holy Sacrament in their sickness And doth he administer it to them And is he also ready to baptize Infants in danger of death Is any Infant or more aged person in the Parish yet unbaptized by his default Have those Children that have been baptized in private houses by your Minister or other lawâul Minister afterwards been brought into the Church and the Order of the Church concerning them there duly observed XV. Hath your Minister or any other baptized Children churched any Women or ministred the holy Communion in any private house where they have any Church or Chappel in the Parish otherwise then by Law is allowed in cases of necessity XVI Doth your Minister on the three Râgation days before the Feast of the holy Ascension go in peââmâulation of the Circuit of the Parish And when he so goeth doââ he admonish the people to give thanks to God in the beholding of his benefits for the encrease and abundance of his ãâã upon the face of the Earth And when there appears any âear of scarcity to pray to God for his mercy and favoââ unto the Lând going into the Church with them and reading the Litany and one part of one of the Homiles set forth and appointed for that purpose of the Rogations XVII Doth he bid or observe the Holy-days and Fasting-days and days of Abstinence and other solemn days for which particular Services are appointed as they occur or return from time to time giving notice to the Parishonârs of every of the same in the Church in the time of Divine Service the Sunday next before XVIII Doth your Minister always at the reading or celebrating any divine office constantly wear the Surplice and other Scholastical Habit according to his degree if he be a Grâduate and without a Hoâd only instead thereof a Tipet of black Stuff not Silk being permitted him if he be no Graduate And doth he wear his Hair of a moderate and comely length Is his usual Apparel decent in fashion and in colour such as in enjoyn'd him by the Canons of the Church XIX Doth he in the presence âf the Church-wardens write and record in your Register Book the Names and Sirnames of all persons baptiz'd mârried and buried in your Parish from time to time yearly transmitting a Copy of those Christenings Marrying and Buâyings subscribed with his own the Church-wardens or Overseers names into the Bishops and Registry XX. Doth your Minister permit any strange Ministers to preach in your Church who is not sufficiently licensed and Authorizâd thereto XXI Doth your Parson Uââar or Curate celebrate Matrimony betwixt any persons without the Banes of Matrimony first pubâished on three several Sundays or Holy-days in the Parish Church or Chappel where the said Parties dwell or at the time by Law prohibited without special Faculty or License in either case granted by lawful Authority Or doth hâ celebrate the same in any other place than in the Church or in the Church at any other time then between the hours of eight and twelve in the forenoon Or betwixt such persons as are prohibited by the Laws of God expressed in the Table of Marriage or under the Age of One and twenty years withâut the consent of their Parents or of thâir Guardians
and Governours if their Parents be deâd signified unto him XXII Or have any any such Licenses as above mention'd that you know of been granted by any under the Iurisdiction of this Diocâss for the Celebrâtion of Matrimony until it do appear to the person himself who is judg in these cases by the Oâths of two sufficient witnesses one of them known to the Iudg or to some person whom the Iudg dares trust in this particular That the express consent of the Parents or Parent if one be dead or Guardian or Guardiâns of the Parties is thereunto had and obtain'â and until one of the Parties to be married have pesonally sworn that he believeth there is no let or impediment of Pre-contract Kindred or Alliance nor any other lawful cause nor any suit commenced in any Ecclesiastical Court to bar or hinder the proceeding of the said Matrimony XXIII Hath your Minister admitted any Women begotten withChiâd in Adultery or Fornication to be churched without license from the Ordinary XXIV Doth your Minister serve more than one Church or Chappel in distinct Parishes on one day if so how fâr distant are those Churches or Chappels which he so serveth XXV Doth your Parson Uicar or Curate if commanded by the Ordinary openly some Sunday denounce and declare for to Excommunicate all such as stand Excommunicate by the Law of the Church that others may be admonished to refrain their Company hath he sâid Divine Service whilst he knew such Excommunicate persons to have been in the Church or admitted such to the Communion whilst they stood so excommunicate XXVI Doth your Parson Uicar or Curate having convenient notice given delay or refuse to bury any that are brought to the Church or Church-yard according to the form prescrib'd in the Book of Common-Prayer except such as die unbaptized Excommunicate ãâã Excommunicationepunc and no man able to testifie their Repentance or have lâid violent hands upon themselves XXVII Doth your Minister in the Parish Church or Chappel where he hath charge read the Book of Canâns and Constitutions agréed on at the Synod holden at London A.D. 1603 once every year upon some Sundays or Holy-days in the afternoon before Divine Service and doth he so divide the same as the one half may be read one day and the other half the other day XXVIII Is any Lecture preachâd in your Church is he or are they who preach it Licensed so to do by the Bishop Doth every such one before his Lecture either read the whole publick Service himself appointed for that day by the Church in his Surplice or at least be present at the whole reading thereof and is he in all respects conformable to the Laws and Orders of the Church of England Or doth he any way endeâvour to bring the Parson or Uicar of the place into disrepute with his Parishioners XXIX Doth every one abide in his own calling whereunto he is called viz. Doth any Lay-man that is not duly ordain'd openly read Common-Prayer or execute any Ministerial duty in your Church Or is there any Clergy-man viz. in Holy Orders who doth voluntarily relinquish those his Orders and use himself as a Lay-man only without taking any care of the Church of God Concerning the Pariâhioners I HAve you any ãâã or person living in your Parish thaâ to youâ ãâã live not as becomes a Christian according to his ãâã and vow made in his Baptism viz. de ãâ¦ã worldây ãâã living sobââây jâstly and god ãâ¦ã II. ãâ¦ã in your Parish who wilfully absent themselves ãâ¦ã Chuâch or Chââpel either at Morning or ãâ¦ã upân Sândays and other days âppointed by ãâ¦ã Or who come late to the Chârch or ãâ¦ã bâfore Service be done and the blessing ãâ¦ã upân âny Holy-days imploy themselves in thei ãâ¦ã labour or apply or permit their servants so to ãâ¦ã in ãâã of uâgeât necessity as may be in Haâvest have you any that upon such days kéep open shops or sell wares especially in time of Divine Service Or have you any Uintuers Inn-keepârs or other Uictuallers or selâers of Béeâ or Ale that permit any on such days to tipple or game in their houses or upon any pretence whatsoever except in some necessity as of sickness to remain in their houses in the time of Diviâe Service or Sermon forenoon or afternoon upon those dâys or any thât will come to hear Sââmons but will not come to Common-Prayer and Worship of Gââ appointed in this Church III Aââ there any in your Parish of years of undeâstanding that remain unbaptiz'd or any that refuse to send their Infants to be bâpâizâd publickly in the Church except in cases of necessiây or in such cases do they procure them to be bâptiz'd at home in due manner according to the order of the Church of England Or any persons that being unconfirmed are not broughââo confirmation or being of years neglect themselves to seek it upon pretence of having receiv'd the Communion or Orders or upon any other pretence whatsâever Or are there any that being Sixteen years of Age do not receive the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist three times in the year whereof Eâster to be one Or that doth forsake their own Parish-Church to receive elsewhere Or are there any marryed Women who after their delivery from the Paiâ and Peril of Child-bearing refuse in convenient time to return a pubblick Thansgiving to God according to the Order oâ the Church Or are there any that refuse to bury their dââd according to the Rites of the Church IV. Do any in your Parish entertain in their house any Sojouânââ common Guests or other persons who âeâuse to ârequent Divine Service or receive the Holy Communion as aforesaid and what are the names qualities and conditions of such Sâjournârs V. Do any refuse to be uncovered during the âiâe of Divine Service or devâutly to kneel wâen by the Common-Prayer-book they are commânded so to do or to stand up at the Glory be to the Father c. and at the Câââds and Holy Gâspâl and to make answer at all the ãâ¦ã appointed by the the said Book and due reverence when the Nâme of ouâ Lord Jesus is mentioned And say the Creâd and the Lorâ's ãâã in a loud voyce with the Minister ãâ¦ã in the time of Divine Service behave themselves ãâ¦ã walking talking whispering laughing or sleepiââ VI. Do any persons ãâ¦ã into your Church in time of Divine ãâ¦ã or dâth any other person disturb your Ministeâ doing ãâã part of his Ministerial Office or ãâ¦ã challenge one another or fight in the Church or ãâ¦ã Or are any Plays Feasts Drinkings ãâ¦ã in your Church or Church-yard VII Do anâ ãâã ân youâ Pârish âegles to ââuse ãâ¦ã or other Persons living in their ãâ¦ã yet learn't the Church's Catechism to ãâ¦ã come to Church on Sundays Holy-days ãâ¦ã by their Minister and instruâteâ therein ãâ¦ã any in your Parish Master or Sââvânt ãâã
ãâ¦ã Man or Woman that live in Adultery ãâ¦ã hâving married within the degrees prâhââiâed ãâ¦ã in a Tâable set âorth by Authority Or ãâã you ãâ¦ã togâther in your Parish as man wiâe whâ ãâã in make known when where or by whom they were Married Or any that being lawfully Married do yet live asunder wiâhouâ separation in due form of Law Or hâve you any Bâwdâ Entertainers or concealers of incontinent persons or any common Drunkards Eââortioners Swearers Railers Râvilers common Slandereâs of their Neighbours fiâthy and lascivious talkers or which hâve sollicited any person to unchastity or any which have used any Charmes Inchantments or consultâtiâns of these call'd Wizards or cunning men and Sorcârieâ such âs aâe not made Felony by the Laws of this Realm or wâich hâve committed perjury in any Ecclesiâstical Câurt ãâ¦ã IX Are there any Recusants in your Parish or other Schismatically affectâd âhâ keâp in their houses any that take upon them to be spiritual guides and iust uâters or any Schoolmaster in their Family which come nât to Church to hear Divine Seâvice and to receive the Holy Câmmânion or that labour to seduce and wâthdraw others within or without the Family from the Religion in thâs Church estâblished or any in your Parish that retain sell or disperse any Popish books or writings or other books or writings of âny Sectaries touching the Religion State or Government Ecclâsiâstical of this Kingdom of England or books of Heresie X. Have you any in your Parish that are suspected to be Ana-Baptists Familists Libârtinâs Brownists Quâkers Independents or Presbyterian opposers of the Episâopâl Government XI Are there any in your Parish that do to your knowledg or as you hâve heard with-hold the stock of the Church or any part thereof or any goods or legacies or other things given to pious and charitable uses any prâvisioâe for frée Schools Aâms-houses or Hospitals such as are not of his Mâjesties Foundâtion or Patronâge employed otherwise than according to the intent of their several fouâdations Are there any Tâstâments or Wills by any conceâl'd or improv'd or any Goods unadministred by lawful Authority XII Hâve you any in your Pârish that refuse to pay their duty for ââster offârings to your Minister or ãâã reâkon with him then or thaâ refuse to contribute and ãâã Rate câssed uâon them for the repair of your Church or Chââpâl or for the providing of such Books Furniture or necessary Ornaments as are requisite for the performance of any of the Divine Offices there XIII Do you know of any person in your Parish having the Presentation or gift of any Ecclesiâstical Benefice who hath presented a Minister to it upon any Bargain either for Money or Pension or Lease or reserve of Tythes or Glebe or any part thereof or upon any other Symonâacal contract whatsoever Concerning Church-Wardens Side-men Parish-Clarks and Sextons I. ARe the Church-Wardens of your Parish yearly and duly chosen and sworn Have the last Church-Wardens given up their Accounts before the Minister and Parishioners delivering up also the money remaining in your hands and other things of right belonging to your Church or Chappel and is the sâme delivered to you by bill indented II. Doth any person or persons trouble or molest you the Church-Wardens for presenting any offenders in any of the premises or for performing the duty that lies upon you in executing any part of your office and who are they that do so molest and trouble you III. Do you the Church-Wardens against every Communion provide a sufficient quantity of fine white bread and good and wholsome Wine for the number of the Communicants and do you bring âhe Wine so provided in a cleââ and swéet standing Flagon of Pewter or other purer Metal IV. Do you suffer the Table for the Holy Communion to be applied at any time to any prophane âr comâon use as of writing setting dead Corps upon it at Funerals or others in the Church to sit upon it or irreverently to make it a place to lay their arms or hats upon it V. Do you the Church-Wardens note them that come late to Church after Divine Service is begun or depart before it be ended and do you take diligent notice of the absent and by Warrant desir'd from some of the Iustices of peace according as by law you are directed do you levâe by way of distress from every person of the Parish that doth not resort to your parish-Parish-Church or Chappel on every Sunday and Holy-day having no lâwful or reasonable excuse to be absent the summ of 12 d. for every Sunday or Holy-day in which he is so absent and do you distribute the several summs so levied to the poor of your Parish according to the law in that case provided and before you present any for such default do you first seriously admonish them VI. Do you suffer none in time of Divine Service to stand idle or talk together in the Church-porch or to walk in the Church or Church-yard nor children playing or crying in or about the Church nor suffer any to bring Dogs Hawks or Hounds into the Church to the disturbance of the Congregation VII Are the Side-men duly chosen do they assist the Church-Wardens in the executing their Office and do they joyn with them in framing Presentments VIII Have you a Parish Clark aged 20 years at the least chosen by your Minister of honest life and conversation and sufficiently able to perform his duty in reading writing and singing and doth he duly attend the Minister in all Divine Offices at the Church doth be kéep clean the Church and carefully look to it and to the Books and is he pay'd the ancient and usual wages as hath been accustomed IX Doth your Clark or your Sexton if there be any such in your Parish diligently look to the doors of the Church that they be locked and opened at due times and the Bells toll'd and rung at the due and accustomed hours before the beginning of Morning and Evening Service that the People may be warned and invited to come to the Church and when any person is passing out of this life doth he upon notice given thereof toll a Bell as hath been accustomed that âevout and charitable persons may thereby be warned to recommend the Soul of the dying person to the grace mercy and peace of God Almighty X. Do they at the instance of any make any grave in any part of the Church except in such Isles where some person hath propriety wâthout the express consent of your Minister Concerning Churches and their Possessions Ornaments Utensils and other Necessaries to the same belonging I. IS your Church or Chappel kept in good repair are the roofs the walls the floors windows seats and doors well maintained is your Porch and Steeple in good repair and Bels kept in good order by the care and oversight of the Church-Wardens at the charge of
all persons occupying any Laâds or Tenements within your Parish as well out-dwellers as Inhabitants rating all proportionably for the Lands and Tenements they occupy therein And is your Church or Chappel-yard sufficiently fenced with walls rails or pales as hath been accustomed and that by the moneys cessed upon Lands and Tenements in your Parish as aforesaid except you have a special custom otherwise directing you II. Are there any Isles adjoining to your Church or Chancel which time out of mind have been repair'd by the owners of any Mâssâage in your Parish if so do the owners thereof repair the same III. Is the Chancel of the Church sufficiently repair'd and beautifiâd by the Minister or other person to whom that doth belong IV. Is there any in your Parish that hath converted to his own or to any common secular use any Timber Wood Stone or other Materials belonging to any Church or Chappel Parsonâge or Uicaridge house or out-houses thereof V. Have you in your Church a decent Font of stone for the Administration of Holy Baptism and the same set in the ancient and usual place appointed for it and have you in the Chancell a decent Table for the Celebration of the Holy Communion and for the Communion-service and a Carpet of silk or other decent stuff to lie continually upon thâ Tâble during the time of Divine Service and a fair linnen cloth to lay on the same at the time of the Holy Communion and have you iâ fair Communion Cup of Silver with a Cover a Plate and a Flagon of Pewter or purer Metal the one to place the Bread on the other to bring the Wine into the Holy Table and a fair linnen cloth for covering the Consecrated Elements Have you in your Church or Chappel a convenient reading Seat or Pew erected for your Minister wherein to read the dayly Morning and Evening Service as also a decent Pulpit set in a convenient place for the preaching of God's Word VI. Have you belonging to the Church or Chappel a perfect Bible of the largest Uolumn of the last Translation allowed by Authority Have you two Books of Common-Prayer set forth according to the last Act of Parliament for the Uniformity of publick Prayers And are both also of the largest Uolumn fairly bound one for the Minister and another for the Clark to use at the celebration of all Divine Offices the Book of Homilies the Book of Canons and Constitutions made in the Synod held at London 1603 a Table of Degrees in marriage prohibited set forth by Authority A. D. 1563 a Parchment Register-book to register the several Christenings Marriages and Buryings within the Parish Have you a Book to set down the names of such Strangers as preach in your Church and another Book wherein to write down and keep the Accounts of the Church-Wardens and an Inventory of all things provided and belonging to your Church Have any other Books as the Works of Bishop Jewel Erasmus his Paraphrase upon the Gospel or any other good Books been carried out of the Church into any mans private House Or been lâsâ VII Are the ten Commandments and chosen Sentences of Scripture or the Lords Prâyer and others set up in your Church or Chappel as the Canon does require VâII Have you a large and decent Surplice one or more for the Ministâr to wear at all times of his publick Ministratiân And have you a Hoâd or Typet for your Minister to wear over his Surplice if he be a Graduate IX Hâve you in your Church or Chappel a strong Chest ãâã three Loâkâ and Keys for the Alms of the poor and a hole therefore in the upper part thereof and is one of those Keys in the custody of the Parson Uicar or Curate And have you one other convenient Chest for keeping the Books and Furniture belonging to the Church and a Bier with a Herse-cloth for the burial of the dead X. Have any trees been cut down growing in the Church-yard or fences thereof and by whom and for what use was it done what private doors are made into the Church-yard whereby Nusances are committed and by whom were those doors made Is any Encroachment made upon that ground XI Have you any Lands or Tenements given or belonging to the repairing of your Church what is the quantity and value thereof and in whose possession are they XII When any of those things mentioned in the 6 7 8 or 9. Articles above are wanting are they provided by the Church-Wardens at the charge only of the Inhabitants of the Parish according to each Inhabitants personal State and not otherwise And do you the Church Wardens when you make a Rate for the same and also for the buying of Bread and Wine for Communions and for the expences of your selves and Side-men at Uisitations and to pay for scouring your Plate and washing the Surplice and Communion clothes and if you have not a Custom to the contrary to pay your Parish Clark his ancient Wages When you mâke I say at any time such a Rate or a Rate according to the first Article for the repair of your Church do you give publick notice in the Church to the Parishioners of the time and place of your making them and also of the time and place when and where your Rate shall be âffer'd to be confirmed by your Ordinary that the Objectioâs of any may be heard before they be by the Ordinary ratified XâII Is the House of your Parson Uicar or Curate with all the outâ houses thereto belonging kept in good and sufficient repair or have any of the said houses or out-houses been pull'd down without License from the Ordinary and by whom Hath any person ãâã upon any Orchad Garden Yard or ãâã belonging to your Parsonage or Uicaridgâhouse or feââd any tree thereon growing XâV ãâ¦ã of the ancient Globe Lands belonging to your Ministârs been taken awây or exchanged for other Lands wiââout the free consent of the Patron Incumbent and License from the Ordinary And have you a perfect terrier of all Glebe-Lands Maddows Gardens Orchads Stocks Implements Tenements or Cottages belonging to your Parsonage or Uicaridg as also a Note of such Pensions Rate-tithes and Portions of Tithes or other yearly profits either within or without your Parish as belong thereunto and finding no such terier do you the Church-Wardens and Side-men together with your Minister and others of your Parish make a terrier of the Premises in Parchment subscribed and signed by you to be kept by your Minister and a Copy thereof subscrib'd and sign'â sent into the Bishops Registry XV. Are the Bones of them thât hâve been buried in your Church or Church-yard kept decently interred there or laid up in some âit place as beseemeth Christians and is the whole consecrated ground kept free from Swine and other filth and annoyance as becomes a place so dedicated Concerning School-Masters Physicians Chyrurgeons and Midwives I. DO any in your Parish teach
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 ân 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 neceâsity 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 âll things necessary to Salvation Or is there any that dâth âffirm and teach that the xxxix Articles agreed upon by the Arch Bâshops 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 Pârish that doth affirm and teach that the form of God's Wârship 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 Primitivâ 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 âhurch's Order and dying before they commit âctual stâââre not saved everlastingly through God's grace given thâm in Baptisâ VI. Is there any who doth affirm or teach that the Kâng's Majesty hath not the same Prerogaâive in Câuses Eââââsiâstâcal which we see hath been given âlwaies to âll godây 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 Câuseâ Ecclesiastical in this Realm Or who denies that within his Maiestie's Realms of England Scotland and ãâã and all other his Dominions and Countries our Lord the King is the highest Power under God to whom the chief Gâvernment of all Estates whether they be Ecclesiastical or Civil in âll 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 ãâã under his Majesty by Arch-Bishops Bishops Deans Arch-Deâcons 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 Antichristiân or repugnant to the âord of God or to the practice of the Catholick Church Or thât persââs so ordained Bishops Priests or Deâcons hââe not sâfficâent external calling or that they ought not to be ãâã truly Bishops Priests or Deacons till they hâve some other external calling unto those divine Offices or ãâã teaches that those three Holy Orders aboveââââ have not bâen ever in Christ's Church even from the Apostles time VIII Is there any in your Pââiâh ând who is hâ 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 Congregâtions 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 Chuâch of England by law established are Antichristian supeâstitious or frivolous Or any way unlawful or burdensome or such as may not be subscrib'd unto and practis'd with a good conscâence 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 Priâst 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 obtainâd his Parsonage or Uicaridge by any Symoniacal Contract II. Did he within two Months after his Induction publickly in your Church or Chappel upon somâ Sunday or Holy-day in the time of Dâvine Sârvice openly read the xxxix Articles established by Authoritâ in this Church A.D. 1562 and then profess and publish his assent and subscribe his name thereto in the presence of the Church Wârdens Do you not know or have you not âearâ that ân his reading or pretending to read those xxxix Articles he pâssed 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 uâread Diâ your Pârson Uicar or Curate upon some Lordâ-dây before âhe Feast of St. âârtholomew A.D. 1662 or some Lordâ-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
Congregation declare his unâeigned assent and consent to the use of all things in the said book contained as is prescribed in the Act of Parliament lately made for the Uniformity of publick Prayers And did he within thrée Months after the said Feast of St. Bartholomew 1662 or within three Months after his Induction into your Church or Chappel publickly upon some Lords-day in your Parish-Church read a Certificate under the hand and seal of the Arch-Bishop Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocess That he the said Parson Uicar or Curate did before his admission to be incumbent subscribe a declaration of the unlawfulness to take up arms against the King of his conforming to the Liturgy of this Church and of his disavowing the unlawful Oath commonly call'd The Solemn League and Covenant according as is prescribed in the aforesaid Act for Uniformity III. Or after his lawful Entrance is your Paâson or Uicar resident upon his benefice or if his residence be legally dispensâd with is his place supplied by a Curate allowed by the Bishops and a licensed Preâcâer and constântly resident amongst you and what yearly Stipend doth your Minister allew him And if your Pârson or Uicar be both resident himself and keep a Curate doth he notwithstanding himself at least once a Month openly read Common-Prayer in your Church or Châppel and if there be occâsion 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 Uicar 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 chariây in patience Or on the contrary is he a frequenter of Tâverns or Ale-houses a common Gâmester a prophane or obscene jester a swearer railer scoffer or quârreller Doth he set Neighbours at vâriance one with another Doth he fâmiliarly 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 lodg 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 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 or not able to get two or three gathered together doth he every day say Divine Service Morning and Ebening in the Parish-Church where he ministers and cause a Bell to be toll'd thereunto that the People may come to hear Gods Word and to pray with him VI. Doth your Minister reverently and publickly at the Font only 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 knowledg thereof being given to him over Night or in the Morning before Morning-Prayer or neglect to perswade all those who have the use of Reason and are still unbaptiz'd having been seduced by Anâbâpâists to come to Holy Baptism and doth he take care for their Baptism as in the Common-Prayer-book is prescribed Or doth he refuse or neglect at any time to sign the child baptized with the sign of the Cross or doth he admit such to be God-fathers or God-mothers who are either the Parents or who have not themselves receiv'd 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 Commuâicate 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 obseâve all the Churches Order in the Celebration Dâth 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 throughâut the year reâd the Communion Service so much of it as is appointed to be read by the Book of ãâã Prayer and aâ the place appâânâeâ theâebâ professâng his and the Churches reâdiness to the âore frequent Celebrâtion of thâ Holy Eucharist if Communiââââs ãâã of wanting VâII 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 hâs wronged his Neighbour by word or deed so as thât the Congregation is thereby offended or such betwixt whom he perceives malice or hatred to reign and will not be reduc'd by him to a reconcilement or to any who refuse to be present at the other publick Prayers of the Church or to any thât 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 Supream Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical except such persons do acknowledg to the Minister before you the Church-Wardens that he is sorry 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 knéeling 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 take the cup into his hand and lay his hand upon every Uessel in which there is any Wine to be consecrated and when that which is consecrated is spent doth he communicate 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 doth he rehearse the whole form prescribed in the Communion-book saying The Body of our Lord Jesus Christ c. And The Blood oâ ouâ Lord Jesus Christ which waâshed c Or doth he use only some part thereof