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A30360	Injunctions for the arch-deacons of the diocess of Sarum to be delivered by them to the clergy in their Easter-visitations, 1690 : together with a letter from their diocesan, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1690 (1690)	Wing B5806; ESTC R15330	5,034	10

INJUNCTIONS FOR THE ARCH-DEACONS OF THE Diocess of SARUM To be delivered by them to the CLERGY in their Easter-Visitations 1690. Together with a Letter from their Diocesan GILBERT Lord Bishop of SARUM Imprimatur April 30. 1690. Z. Isham R. P. D. Henr. Episc. Lond. à Sacris I. YOU shall read His Majesty's Letter of the 13. of February last to the Clergy in your Respective Archdeaconries and you shall press them seriously to consider and observe the Rules that are set in it II. You shall signifie to the Clergy of this Diocess That in order to their obeying Regularly and Uniformly the Commands sent to us and them by His Majesty's Letter they shall observe this Method On the second Sunday in May they shall read the Act of Parliament concerning the Observation of the Lord's day and shall exhort their Hearers to the Religious Observation of it On the Sunday seven-night before the Assizes they shall read the Act against Perjury and preach on the same Subject On the first Sunday in Advent they shall read the Act against Drunkenness and li●ewise preach against that Uice And on the second Sunday in Lent they shall read the Act against Blasphemy Swearing and Cursing and preach on the same Subject And on the fourth Sunday in Lent they shall preach against the sins of Adultery and Fornication It is intended to provide Homilies for all these daies but till these are prepared every one is to furnish himself with Sermons on these Heads and this is to be continued from year to year III. You shall read this our Letter that is herewith given to you to our Clergy of which care shall be taken to send to every one of them a printed Copy and you shall charge them strictly to consider well the Contents and Matter of it IV. You shall require such as have Sermons twice a day in Summer to make their Evening-Sermon on some part of the Church-Catechism in such a Division that they may go quite through it once a year And for such as preach but one Sermon a day you shall charge them that every fortnight they preach on some part of the Church-Catechism so that once a year in every Church the Catechism be explained quite through and charge them likewise to examine the young persons of their Parishes quite through the Catechism at every time that they preach on any part of it V. You shall signifie to the Clergy of the Diocess That for avoiding Crowds and Disorders in Confirmations we intend to confirm frequently not only in our Cathedral on Good-Fridays and Whitsun-Eves and Christmas-Eves but as we go about to any of the Churches of our Diocess and that therefore they take care to send such to us to be confirmed by us when they hear that we are in their Neighbourhood whom they find not only capable of repeating the words of the Catechism but likewise sensible of those Uows which were made in their name in Baptism and which they are then to renew and who are of an age capable of receiving the Sacrament and in a disposition fit for it VI. You are to deal with our Clergy and particularly with the Rural Deans to see if the Clergy of each Rural Deanery can be brought to meet together in some convenient place within the respective Deanery if it may be three or four times in a year to consult of their common Concerns and to acquaint us with such things in which we may be assistant or helpful to them This may be a great means of begetting and keeping Brotherly Love and Friendship among them of giving advice to such as want experience and of strengthening the whole Body therefore we do most earnestly recommend it to you and them VII You are to enquire into the Deportment of the Clergy and to see what Scandals or ill Reports go upon any of them and in particular what their Behaviour is with relation to those Canons which His Majesty has charged us to look more narrowly to You are also to examine who reside in their Livings who attend constantly on them or are frequently and without any just cause absent from them who have Prayers Wednesdays and Fridays at the least if not oftener where it is possible to have any number of Christians brought together though it were a very small one and you are to accept no Excuse from those who have not for some considerable time tried it even two or three make a Congregation VIII You are to enquire If under the pretence of having the benefit of the Indulgence granted by Law there are any that do cast off quite the Worship of God neither coming to Church nor going to any of the Meetings of the Dissenters and since it was far from the intent of the Law to grant any Indulgence to Atheism you are to enquire after all such persons that they may be procéeded against but you are not to suffer any Uexation to be created upon this pretence to any that go to the Méetings of the Dissenters IX You are to signifie to our Clergy That all such as desire to be put in Orders must be addrest to us some considerable time before the Ordination-Sundays that so we may have sufficient time not only to try and examine them but also to order notice to be given at the Parish-Churches where they live that so any who have any Impediment to object why they should not be admitted into Holy Orders may have timely warning and may signifie it to us We do desire that such as come for Orders appear before us in the Ember-week not immediately preceeding but thrée months before we ordain them that so we may have a larger time and better opportunities of being fully satisfied concerning them remembring those heavy words of St. Paul's Lay hands suddenly on no man neither be partaker of other mens sins keep thy self pure GI SARUM My Dear Brethren I Send you herewith His Majesty's Letter that was sent to me by My Lord Bishop of London which according to my duty I do now transmit to all you the Clergy of my Diocese I do bless God that has put into His Majesty's heart such a Zeal for this our Church and such a sense of the ways that are most proper for preserving it and which by the Blessing of God will certainly do it For if the Pastors and Guides of the Church of all Ranks do adorn their Profession with a good Conversation and apply themselves seriously and zealously to the Duties of their Function the Church will both shine and prosper in spite of all the opposition that can be made to it from its enemies of both hands The least blemish in a Church man's Life as it is searched out and observed by all men so it not only lessens the force of all his other Labours but it weakens very much the credit of the whole Church which is often judged by the Errors and Disorders of every one of its Pastors Yet it