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LETTER

TO THE

CLERGY

OF THE

DIOCESE OF SARUM.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

DIRECTIONS

RELATING то

ORDERS, INSTITUTIONS,

A N D

LICENCES.

BY

SHUTE, LORD BISHOP of SARUM.

SALISBURY:

PRINTED EY B. C. COLLINS;

AND SOLD BY

B. C. COLLINS, and E. EASTON, Salisbury; SMART and
COWSLADE, Reading; RIVINGTONS, London;
And J. FLETCHER, Oxford.

M.DCC.LXXXIX,

MUSEU

A

LETT E R, &c.

REVEREND BRETHREN,

THE

HE fubjects of this Address relate to some events very interefting to the church of which you are ministers, because very interesting to morality and religion: to fome topics of serious confideration, which concern your temporal fituations, and religious duties: and, to others, which cannot fail to influence your conduct as friends to the future welfare of the Church of England, and the due inftruction of the people committed to your care. On the several subjects which fall within these views, I felt it my duty to deliver my fentiments to you collectively on a late and former occafion. I am ftill anxious to leave them with A 2

you indivi

dually

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dually by this mode of communication, as a teftimony of my affection for my Clergy; and my folicitude for their temporal and eternal interests.

§ 1. THE events to which I allude are the progrefs of Sunday education; the exertions of private perfons and focieties for the promotion of piety, decency, and good order; and, above all, the Royal Proclamation for the restraining of wickednefs and vice; for the maintenance of religion and virtue and, as the means of attaining these invaluable ends, for the due obfervance of the Sabbath.

Two years have now elapfed fince his Majefty was induced, from motives of paternal regard for the morals of his people, to iffue this proclamation. The call to obey it's injunctions more immediately affects magistrates, as. vefted with authority to execute the fubfifting laws against drunkenness; curfing and fwearing; gaming, especially in public houses; lewdness and debauchery; profanation of the Lord's day; publication of obscene and impious books and prints;

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