Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	church_n	discipline_n	government_n	3,314	5	6.9877	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00187	Articles to be inquired of in the Arch-deaconrie of Salop within the diocesse of Hereford, in the year 163[9?] at the visitation of Morgan Godwyn, Doctor of Lawes, Arch-deacon of Salop.	Church of England. Archdeaconry of Salop.; Godwyn, Morgan. fl. 1685	1639 (1639)	STC 10217.5; ESTC S1243	12,815	15

hee take upon him to preach or expound the Scriptures in his owne Cure or elsewhere If so then you are to present the same the time and place when and where he did it 11 Doth your Minister use to pray for the Kings Majesty King Charles and for the Queenes Majesty for Prince Charles his Highnesse all the Royall Progeny with addition of such stile and titles as are due to his Maiesty and exhort the people to obedience to his Maiesty and to al Magistrates in authority under him And doth he also pray for all Arch-bishops Bishops and other Ecclesiasticall persons 12 Doth your Minister Preacher or Lecturer observe the forme of Prayer and no other before his or their Sermons that is prescribed by the 55 Canon therein moving the people as they are there directed to joyne with him in Prayer for Christs holy Catholike Church and for the Kings most excellent Maiesty the Queene the Prince and the rest of the Royall Progeny Clergy and Councell as in the Canon is required alway concluding with the Lords Prayer 13 Is your Minister continually resident upon his benifice or how long time hath he been absent And in case he be licensed to be absent whether doth he cause his Cure to be sufficiently supplyed according to the Canon or in case he hath another benifice Whether doth he supply his absence by a Curate sufficiently licensed to preach in that Cure where he himselfe is not resident or otherwise in case the smalnesse of the living cannot finde a preaching Minister doth he preach at both his Benifices usually 14 Doth your Minister or Curat serve any more Cures then one If yea then what other Cure doth he serve and how far are they distant 15 Doth your Minister or Curate every Sunday and Holyday before Evening prayer for halfe an hower or more examine and instruct the youth and ignorant persons of his parish in the tenn Commandements Articles of the Creede and in the Lords prayer and the Sacraments according as is prescribed in the Catechisme set forth in the Booke of Common prayer only And if he do not where is the fault either in the Parents and Masters of the Children or in the Curat neglecting his duty 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 any other time as is appoynted by the Booke aforesaid 16 Doth your Minister in the Rogation dayes goe in perambulation of the Circuit of the Parish saying and using the prayers Suffrages and Thankesgiving to GOD appoynted by Law according fo his duty thanking GOD for his blessings if there be plenty on the earth or otherwise to pray for his Grace and favor if there be a feare of Scarsity 17 Hath your Minister admitted any Woman begotten with child in Adultery or Fornication to bee churched without Licence of the Ordinarie 18 Hath your Minister or any other Preacher baptized children Churched any woman or ministred the holy Communion in any private house otherwise than by Law is allowed 19. Whether have there beene any Children baptized in private houses by any person or Midwife or Popish Priest and have such Children thus privately baptized and surviving been afterwards brought to your Church to the intent the Congregation and the Minister of the Parish in case they were not baptized by him may be certified whether they or any of them were lawfully bapt●zed or no 20 Whether have the children that have beene borne to any popish Recusant or Recusants in your Parish beene publiquely baptized in your parish-Church by your Parson Vicar or Curate or by whom else were they baptized or where to your knowledge 21 Doth your Minister endeavour and labour diligently to reclaime the Popish Recusants in his parish from their errors 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 bee sincere in Religion 22 Hath your Minister taken upon him to appoint any publique or private Fasts Prophecies or Exercises not approved by Law or publique Authority or hath used to meet in any private house or place with any person or persons there to consult how to impeach or deprave the Booke of Common Prayer or the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of England If yea then you shall present them all 23 Doth your Minister or Lecturer either in time of publique allowed Fasts or at any other time usually deteine the Assembly or Congregation with Sermons longer than a full hower If yea then you shall present the time and place 24 Whether hath your Minister been present at any private conventicle to consult there of any course to bee taken by them or by another upon their motion which may any way tend to the impeachment or depraving of the Doctrine of the Church of England or of the booke of Common Prayer or of any part of the Governement and Discipline now established in the Church of England 25 Whether doth your Minister publish in his Sermons any Doctrine which is new and strange and disagreeing from the Word of God and from the Articles of Christian Faith and Religion agreed on and published Anno Dom. 1562. And whether doth hee teach any thing which hee would the people religiously to observe and beleeve but that which is agreeable to the Scriptures and that which the Catholique Fathers and ancient Bishops have gathered out of that Doctrine according to the Canon 26 Whether doth your Minister in his Sermons enter into and handle any points of controversie contrarie to his Maiesties directions whether doth hee or any other Preacher in your pulpit particularly impugne and confute any Doctrine delivered by any other Preacher in the same Church or in any Church neere adioyning before hee hath acquainted the Bishop of the Diocesse therewith and received order from him what to doe in that case 27 Hath your Minister stayed the publication of any excommunications or suspensions or doth hee every halfe yeare denounce in his parish Church all such of his Parish as are excommunicated and persevere therein without seeking to be absolved or doth hee wittingly and willingly keepe companie with such as are excommunicate and hath he admitted into your Church any person excommunicated without a certificate of his absolution from the Ordinary or other competent Iudge 28 Doth your Minister carefully looke to the reliefe of the poore and from time to time call upon his Parishioners to give somewhat as they can spare to godly and charitable uses especially when they make their Testaments 29 Doth your Minister or Curate resort unto such as be dangerously sicke in your Parish to instruct and comfort them in their distresses according to the order of the booke of Common Prayer not omitting then especially to move them earnestly to liberality toward the poore 30 Whether doth your Minister or any

having taken holy Orders being now silenced or suspended or any other person of your knowledge or as you have heard hold any conventicles or doth preach in any place or doth use any other forme of Divine Service than is appointed in the Booke of Common Prayer If yea then you are to present their names and with whom 31 Whether is your Curate licenced to serve by the Bishop of this Dioces or by any other and by whom 32 Whether is there anie in your Parish who having beene admitted into holie Orders either Deacon or Minister doth voluntarily relinquish and forsake his calling and liveth in the course of his life as a meere Lay-man 33 Whether is your Minister studious in holy Scripture and abstaineth from mechanicall trades or labour not befitting his function and from apparrel unseemely for his calling using that decencie and gravity therein as is prescribed in the 47. Canon 34 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 Schismatique or schismatically affected or reputed to be an incontinent person or doth table or lodge any such in his house or is bee a frequenter of Tavernes Innes or Ale-houses or any place suspected for ill rule Or is hee a common Drunkard a common Gamester or player at Dice a Swearer or one that applieth himselfe not at his studies or is otherwise offensive and scandalous to his Function or Ministerie Third Concerning Schoole-Masters Physicians Chirurgians Mid-wives and Parish-Clerkes 1 DOth any in your Parish openly or privately take upon him to teach Schoole without Licence of the Ordinarie and is hee conformable to the Religion now established and doth hee bring his Schollars to the Church to heare Divine Service and Sermons and doth hee instruct his schollars in the grounds of the Religion now established in the Church of England and is hee carefull and diligent to benefit his schollers in learning 2 Doth your Schoole-master tea●h and instruct his youth in the Catechisme allowed by authority or in some other Catechisme if in some other what is that Catechisme that he so teacheth 3 Is any Living or Meanes given towards the erection or maintenance of any Schoole with-holden backe or otherwise imployed and by whom 4 Doth any keepe Schoole in the Chancell or Church by which meanes that holy place and the Communion Table are many waies profaned and the windowes broken 5 How many Physitians Chirurgians or Mid-wives have you in your Parish how long have they used their severall sciences or Offices and by what Authority and how have they demeaned themselves therein and of what skill are they accounted to be in their professions 6 Have you a fit Parish-Clerke aged twentie yeares at least of honest life able to reade and write are his and the Sextons wages duly paied without fraud or diminution according to the ancient custome of your Parish what is his wages by whom is he chosen whether is he approved by the Ordinarie Is hee diligent in his Office and serviceable to the Minister doth hee keepe the Church cleane and dores locked Is there any thing lost or spoyled through his default and doth hee execute his Office duly Fourth Concerning the Parishioners 1 VVHether any of your Parishioners being sixteen yeares of age or upwards or others lodging or commonly resorting to anie house within your Parish doe wilfullie absent themselves from your Parish Church upon Sundaies or Holi-daies at morning and evening praiers or who come late to Church and depart from Church before Service be done upon the said daies or who doe not reverently behave themselves during the time b● Divine Service devoutly kneeling when the generall Confession of sins the Letanie the tenne Commandements and all prayers and Collects are read and using due and lowly reverence when the blessed Name of the Lord Iesus Christ is mentioned and standing up at each Creed at the Gospell at each Glorie be to the Father c. and at the Te Deum according to the practise of his Maiesties Chappell Royall and of the Cathedrall Church of Hereford or who doe cover their heads in the Church during the time of Divine Service unlesse it be in case of necessitie in which case they may weare a night-cap or Coyf or who doe give themselves to babling talking or walking and are not attentive to heare the Word preached or read whether any of your Parish being of 16. yeares of age or upwards doe not receive the holy Communion thrice every yeare whereof once at Easter and whether they doe not devoutly kneele at the receiving thereof And whether any having divers houses of remove doe shift from place to place of purpose to defeate the performance of their Christian duties in that behalfe 2 Whether any of your Parishioners being admonished thereof doe not send their children servants and apprentises to the Minister to be catechised upon such Sundayes and Holy-dayes as are appointed or whether any of them doe refuse to come or if they come refuse to learne those instructions set forth in the Booke of Common Prayer 3 Whether doe any of your Parish entertaine within their house any soiourner common guests or other persons who refuse to frequent Divine Service or receave the holy Communion as aforesaid present their names qualities or conditions 4 Whether doth any in your Parish under the degree of a Nobleman or not thereto allowed by the Law keepe in his house any Chaplaine present their names 5 What Recusant Papists have yee in your Parish or other Sectaries present their names qualities or condition whether they keepe any Schoole-master in their house which commeth not to Church to heare Divine Service and receive the holy Communion what is his name and how long hath hee taught there or elsewhere 6 Whether any of the said Popish Recusants or other schismatiques doe labour to seduce and with-draw others from the Religion now established or instruct their families or children in Popish Religion or resuse to entertaine any especially in place of greatest service or trust but such as concurre with them in their opinions 7 How long have the said Popish Recusants abstained from Divine Service or from the Communion 8 Is there any in your Parish that reteine sell utter or disperse any Popish bookes or writings or other bookes Libraries or writings of any Sectaries touching the Religion State or Governement Ecclesiasticall of this Kingdome of England or keepe any Manuments of superstition uncancelled or undefaced 9 Whether have you any in your Parish which heretofore being Popish Recusants or Sectaries have since reformed themselves and come to Church to heare Divine Service and receive the Sacraments If yea then who are they and how long since have they so reformed themselves and whether they still remaine in their conformity 10 Are there any in your Parish that refuse to have their children baptized or themselves to receive the