Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	child_n	neglect_v	parent_n	3,017	5	9.3090	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32955	Articles to be enquired of within the diocese of Lincoln in the generall and trienniall visitation of the right Reverend Father in God, John, by Gods providence, Lord Bishop of Lincoln, to be held in the year of our Lord God 1641.	Church of England. Diocese of Lincoln. Bishop (1621-1641 : Williams); England and Wales. Parliament. House of Lords.	1641 (1641)	Wing C4053; ESTC R11624	7,832	15

preach at both his Benefices usually And if he be most-while absent what order doth he take for hospitality or relief of the poor declare it particularly And whether doth he give the fourtieth part of the profits of his Benefice to the poor during his absence or what provision doth he make otherwise for them 9 Doth your Minister or Curate serve any more Cures then one If yea then what other Cure doth he serve and how far are they distant 10 Doth your Minister or Curate every Sunday and Holiday before Evening prayer for half an hour or more examine and instruct the youth and ignorant persons of his Parish in the ten Commandments Articles of the Belief and in the Lords Prayer and the Sacraments according as it is prescribed in the Catechisme set forth in the book of Common prayer And doth he expound and shew forth the meaning and sense of the said Catechisme And if he do not where is the fault either in the parents and masters of the children or in the Curate neglecting his dutie And is he carefull to tender all such youth of his Parish as have been well instructed in their Catechisme to be Confirmed by the Bishop in his Visitation or at any other convenient time as is appointed by the book aforesaid And you are to warn the Ministers to prepare them against this present Visitation 11 Doth your Minister endeavour and labour diligently to reclaim the Popish Recusants in his parish from their errours if there be any such abiding in your parish Or whether is your Parson Vicar or Curate over-conversant with or a favourer of Recusants whereby he is suspected not to be sincere in Religion 12 Hath your Minister taken upon him to appoint any publike or private fasts prophesies or exercises not approved by Law or publike Authority or hath he used to meet in any private house or place with any person or persons there to consult how to impeach or deprave the book of Common prayer or the doctrine or discipline of the Church of England If yea then you shall present them all 13 Is your Minister noted or defamed to have obtained his Benefice or his Orders by simony or any other way defamed to be a simoniacall person or any way noted to be a schismatick or schismatically affected or reputed to be an incontinent person Or doth he table or lodge any such in his house Or is he a frequenter of taverns innes or ale-houses or any place suspected for ill rule Or is he a common drunkard a common gamester or player at dice a swearer or one that applieth not himself to his study or is otherwise offensive and scandalous to his function and ministery especially is he one that useth uncharitably to curse scandal and revile his own parishioners in his heats and choler If yea then present it 14 Do you know any Minister that doth perform or any other person that doth hear Divine service otherwise performed then as it is now appointed by the Acts of Parliament of this Realm And do you know of any that hath or doth disturb that wholsom Order so appointed by the Law to be observed in Divine service If you do you must present their names 15 Do you know of any persons that deny Archbishops Bishops Priests and Deacons consecrated according to the Order prescribed by the Statute to be rightly orderly and lawfully consecrated and ordered If you do you are to present their names 16 When any person hath been dangerously sick in your Parish hath your Minister neglected to visit him and when any have been parting out of this life hath he omitted to do his last dutie in that behalf being sent for and desired 17 Doth your Minister Curate or Lecturer in his or their sermons deliver such doctrine as tends to obedience and the edifying of their auditorie in faith religion and good life without intermedling with particular matters of State not fit to be handled in the Pulpit but to be discussed by the wisdome of His Majestie and his Councel And if you finde any faultie herein you shall present them Or doth he spend most of the hour in points of controversie and new start-up questions of Arminianisme debarred by the Kings authority from the Pulpit 18 Whether doth your Minister misbehave himself in preaching or praying so that the congregation are offended thereat And whether doth he teach publickly opposite doctrine against the Articles and Homilies prescribed by Law in the Church of England Doth he preach and maintain or palliate with distinctions and limitations any points of Poperie Declare the points as neer as you can Or doth he make any personall invectives in the Pulpit to the offence of particular men and the scandall of the Parish 19 Whether hath the form of Commination against impenitent sinners been read in your Church to the people according to the book of Common Prayer Concerning Schoolmasters 1 Doth any in your Parish openly or privately take upon him to teach School without licence of the Ordinary And is he conformable to the religion now established And doth he bring his scholars to the Church to hear Divine service and sermons And doth he instruct his scholars in the grounds of the religion now established in this Church of England and is he carefull and diligent to benefit his scholars in learning 2 Doth your schoolmaster teach and instruct his youth in the Catechisme or grounds of Religion and doth he instruct them in any other Grammar Accidence or any other Catechisme then is allowed by publick Authority and what Grammar Accidence or Catechisme is it that he so teacheth Parish-Clerks and Sextons HAve you a fit Parish-Clerk aged twenty yeers at the least of honest conversation able to read and write Whether are his and the Sextons wages paid without fraud according to the ancient custome of your Parish if not then by whom are they so defrauded or denied 2 Doth your Clerk or Sexton keep the Church clean the doors locked at fit times Is any thing lost or spoiled in the Church through his default Are the Communion-table Font Books and other Ornaments of the Church kept fair and lean Doth he suffer any unseasonable ringing or any proane exercise in your Church or doth he when any is weak ●nd assured to him to be passing out of this life neglect to toll bell to give notice thereof to all devout Christians Concerning the Parishioners WHether do any of your Parishioners being sixteen yeers of age or upwards or others lodging or commonly resorting to any house within your Parish wilfully ●bsent themselves from your Parish-Church upon Sundayes and Holy-dayes at Morning and Evening prayers or who come late to Church and depart from Church before Service be done upon the said dayes or who do not reverently behave themselves during the time of Divine Service devoutly kneeling when the generall Confession of sins the Letanie the ten Commandments and all Prayers and Collects are upon any Sunday or