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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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Congregation declare his un●eigned 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 Pa●son or Uicar resident upon his benefice or if his residence be legally dispens●d with is his place supplied by a Curate allowed by the Bishops and a licensed Pre●c●er and const●ntly resident amongst you and what yearly Stipend doth your Minister allew him And if your P●rson 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 Ch●ppel and if there be occ●sion 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 chari●y in patience Or on the contrary is he a frequenter of T●verns or Ale-houses a common G●mester a prophane or obscene jester a swearer railer scoffer or qu●rreller Doth he set Neighbours at v●riance one with another Doth he f●miliarly 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 An●b●p●ists 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 Commu●icate 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 obse●ve all the Churches Order in the Celebration D●th 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 through●ut the year re●d the Communion Service so much of it as is appointed to be read by the Book of 〈◊〉 Prayer and a● the place app●●n●e● the●eb● profess●ng his and the Churches re●diness to the ●ore frequent Celebr●tion of th● Holy Eucharist if Communi●●●●s 〈◊〉 of wanting V●II 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 h●s wronged his Neighbour by word or deed so as th●t 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 th●t 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 o● ou● Lord Jesus Christ which wa●shed c Or doth he use only some part thereof
as he listeth himself and when all h●ve communicated doth he cover wh●t rem●ineth of the Consecrated Elements wi●h a fair Linnen-cloth and what remains is it reverently eaten and drunken by some of the Communicants within your C●urch X I●●ny person si●k or in health especially before the Rec●●ving th● Holy Communion fi●ding his conscience troubled with any w●ighty m●tters doth for the quieting of his conscience and for fu●●her 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 ●l●o h● 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 ha●h 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 you● Minister ● li●ensed Preacher by the Bishop or either of the two Universities and if so doth he then constantly ● unless in case of sickness necessary absence or other reasonabl● imped●ment 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 Praye●s and to pre●ch one Sermon and to pe●form other Ministerial Duties each such Day besides the F●●st● of Christs Nativity Passion and Ascension at the least or if no Sermon be take care that one of the Hom●●ie● 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 Seditio●s 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 P●rish 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 me●ns 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 of● 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 law●ul 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 R●gation days before the Feast of the holy Ascension go in pe●●m●ulation of the Circuit of the Parish And when he so goeth do●● he admonish the people to give thanks to God in the beholding of his benefits for the encrease and abundance of his 〈◊〉 upon the face of the Earth And when there appears any ●ear of scarcity to pray to God for his mercy and favo●● unto the L●nd 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 Parishon●rs 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 Gr●duate and without a Ho●d 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 ●f the Church-wardens write and record in your Register Book the Names and Sirnames of all persons baptiz'd m●rried and buried in your Parish from time to time yearly transmitting a Copy of those Christenings Marrying and Bu●yings 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 Authoriz●d thereto XXI Doth your Parson U●●ar or Curate celebrate Matrimony betwixt any persons without the Banes of Matrimony first pub●ished 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 h● 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 with●ut the consent of their Parents or of th●ir Guardians