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A97370 Constitutions and canons ecclesiastical treated upon by the archbishops and bishops and the rest of the clergy of Ierland [sic] and agreed upon with the Kings Majesties license in their synod begun at Dublin Anno Dom. 1634 and in the year of the reign of our sovereign Lord Charles ... King of Great Brittain, ... the tenth. Church of Ireland. 1669 (1669) Wing C4098; ESTC R29961 40,928 69

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the Bishop or by him or them to whom the Jurisdiction of that church appertaineth according to the quality of the offence XXVIII Prebendaries to be resident upon their benefices NO Prebendaries or canons in cathedral or collegiate Churches having one or more benefices with cure and not being Residentaries in the same cathedral or collegiate Churches shall under colour of the said Prebends absent themselves from their benefices with cure above the space of one moneth in the year unless it be for some urgent cause and certain time to be allowed by the Bishop of the Diocess And such of the said canons and prebendaries as by the Ordinances of the said cathedral or collegiate churches do stand bound to be resident in the same shall so among themselves sort and proportion the times of the year concerning residence to be kept in the said Churches as that some of them always shall be personally resident there And that all those who be or shall be Residentaries in any cathedral or collegiate church shall after the days of their residency appointed by their local Statutes or customs expired presently repair to their benefices or some of them or to some other charge where the Law requireth their presence there to discharge their duties according to the law in that case provided And the Bishop of the Diocess shall see the same to be duly performed and put in execution XXIX Four solemn times appointed for the making of Ministers FOrasmuch as the ancient Fathers of the church led by the examples of the Apostles appointed Prayers and Feasts to be used at the solemn ordering of Ministers and to that purpose allotted certain times in which only sacred Orders might be given or conferred We following their holy and religious example do constitute and decree that no Deacons or Ministers be ordained and made but only upon the Sundays immediately following Jejunia quatuor temporum commonly called Ember-weeks appointed in ancient time for prayer and fasting purposely for this cause at their first Institution and so continued at this day in the church of Ireland And that this be done in the cathedral or parish church where the Bishop resideth and in the time of Divine Service in the presence not only of the Archdeacon but of the Dean and two Prebendaries at the least or if they shall happen by any lawfull cause to be let or hindered in the presence of four other grave persons being allowed for publick Preachers And lastly that no person of what quality or gifts soever be made a Deacon and a Presbyter both together upon the same day XXX The titles of such as are to be made Ministers NO person shall be admitted into Sacred Orders except he shall at that time exhibit to the Bishop of whom he desireth imposition of hands a presentation of himself to some Ecclesiastical preferment then void in that Diocess or shall bring to the said Bishop a true and undoubted certificate that either he is provided of some church within the said Diocess where he may attend the cure of souls or of some Ministers place vacant either in the cathedral church of that Diocess or in some other collegiate church therein also scituate where he may execute his Ministery or that he is a Senior Fellow of some Colledge in the University or except he be a Master of Arts of five years standing that liveth of his own charge in the University or except by the Bishop himself that doth ordain him Minister he be shortly after to be admitted either to some Benefice or Curateship then void not to be removed until he be otherwise provided for except by his notable evil carriage he deserve the contrary And if any Bishop shall admit any person into the Ministery that hath none of these Titles as is aforesaid then he shall keep and maintain him with all things necessary till he do prefer him to some Ecclesiastical living And if the said Bishop shall refuse so to do he shall be suspended by his Archbishop being assisted with another Bishop from giving of Orders by the space of a year XXXI The quality of such as are to be made Ministers NO Bishop shall hereafter admit any person into Sacred Orders which is not of his own Diocess except he be a graduate of some University within the Kings Dominions or except he shall bring letters dimissory so termed from the Bishop of whose Diocess he is and desiring to be a Deacon is three and twenty years old and to be a Presbyter four and twenty years compleat and hath taken some degrees of School in some of the said Universities or at the least except he be able to yield an account of his faith in latin according to the Articles of Religion generally received in the Church of England and Ireland and to confirm the same by sufficient testimonies out of the holy Scriptures And except moreover he shall then exhibit letters Testimonial or authentical certificate of his good life and conversation under the Seal of some Colledge where before he remained or of three or four grave Ministers together with the subscription and testimony of other credible persons who have known his life and behaviour by the space of three years next before XXXII The examination of such as are to be made Ministers THe Bishop before he admit any person to holy Orders shall diligently examine him in the presence of those Ministers that shall assist him at the Imposition of hands And if the said Bishop have any lawfull impediment he shall cause the said Ministers carefully to examine every such person so to be ordered Provided that they who shall assist the Bishop in examining and laying on of hands shall be of his Cathedral Church if they may conveniently be had or other sufficient Preachers of the same Diocess to the number of three at the least And if any bishop or Suffragan shall admit any toSacred Orders who is not so qualified and examined as before we have ordained the Archbishop of that Province having notice thereof and being assisted by one bishop shall suspend the said bishop or Suffragan so offending from making either Deacons or Priests for the space of two years Neither shall any person be received into the Ministery nor admitted to any Ecclesiastical living nor permitted to preach read Lecture catechize or minister the Sacraments except he shall first by subscription declare his consent to the first four Canons of this present Synod and every thing contained therein XXXIII Caution for institution of Ministers into benefices NO bishop shall institute any into a benefice who hath been ordained by any other bishop except he first shew unto him his letters of Orders and bring him a sufficient testimony of his former good life and behaviour if the bishop shall require it and lastly shall appear upon the due examination to be worthy of his ministry XXXIV Patrons of E●clesiastical benefices THe Bishop shall earnestly and diligently exhort Patrons of benefices to