Gilbert Burnet, Lord Bishop of Sarum,
A Charge Given at the Triennial Visitation of the Diocese of Salisbury, in October 1704.
London: Printed for Ri. Chiswell. 1704
‘...a Looking round our Diocese, and to every corner of it; an Observing of your Behaviour, and a Hearkening to every thing that is offered to us.’
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‘...a Looking round our Diocese, and to every corner of it; an Observing of your Behaviour, and a Hearkening to every thing that is offered to us.’
‘…a Looking round our Diocese, and to every corner of it; an Observing of your Behaviour, and a Hearkening to every thing that is offered to us.’
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Main description
The full title reads:
A Charge Given at the Triennial Visitation of the Diocese of Salisbury, in October 1704. To which is added, a sermon preach’d at Salisbury, and some other places, in the said visitation. By the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum. London: printed for Ri. Chiswell, at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, MDCCIV. [1704].
The volume is paginated: [6], 66 p.
The volume collates: pi1 A-H4 I3
“A Charge given at the Triennial Visitation of the diocese of Salisbury, in October 1704.” has separate, dated title page on leaf A2r; register is continuous.
“A Sermon preach’d at Salisbury, and some other places in the Triennial Visitation of that diocese, anno Dom. 1704.” has separate, dated title page on leaf E1r; pagination and register are continuous.
Half-title reads: The Bishop of Sarum’s Charge at His Triennial Visitation, 1704.
ESTC: T30470
Condition
The Volume is in Very good Condition Disbound, with generally clean, well margined leaves, with the margins toned and some light foxing. Original stab marks present, ink page numbering to correspond to a larger volume of pamphlets on each page. The second title page loose.
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Biography / Bibliography
On Easter 1689, Gilbert Burnet was consecrated Bishop of Salisbury and three days later was sworn as Chancellor of the Order of the Garter. His tenure as bishop is noted for his liberal views and zealous discharge of duty.
His jurisdiction extended over Wiltshire and Berkshire. These counties he divided into districts which he sedulously visited. About two months of every summer he passed in preaching, catechizing, and confirming daily from church to church. Here he brings together clergy from his Diocese during his Triennial Visitation at Salisbury in 1704, in his ‘A Charge given at the Triennial Visitation of the Diocese of Salisbury’, he puts the clergy on notice to ‘look to your selves, and to your flocks’.
“We meet not together on these occasions…, the chief End of our meeting is yet before us; That we may quicken and encourage one another to do our duty, as becomes Persons, that are separated from the World, and appropriated to god and his service’. (Pg. 1)
He then lays out his role during the visitation; ‘a Looking round our Diocese, and to every corner of it; an Observing of your Behaviour, and a Hearkening to every thing that is offered to us. We hope you do so look to your selves, and to your flocks, that our looking after you shall be a matter of Joy, and not of Grief to us.’ (Pg. 1)
When he died there was no corner of his diocese in which the people had not had seven or eight opportunities of receiving his instructions and of asking his advice. The worst weather, the worst roads, did not prevent him from discharging these duties. On one occasion, when the floods were out, he exposed his life to imminent risk rather than disappoint a rural congregation which was in expectation of a discourse from the Bishop.
The poverty of the inferior clergy was a constant cause of uneasiness to his kind and generous heart. He was indefatigable and at length successful in his attempts to obtain for them from the Crown that grant which is known by the name of Queen Anne’s Bounty. He was especially careful, when he travelled through his diocese, to lay no burden on them. Instead of requiring them to entertain him, he entertained them. He always fixed his headquarters at a market town, kept a table there, and by his decent hospitality and munificent charities, tried to conciliate those who were prejudiced against his doctrines. When he bestowed a poor benefice, and he had many such to bestow, his practice was to add out of his own purse twenty pounds a year to the income. Ten promising young men, to each of whom he allowed thirty pounds a year, studied divinity under his own eye in the close of Salisbury.
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