The lavves and statutes of Geneua as well concerning ecclesiastical discipline, as ciuill regiment, with certeine proclamations duly executed, whereby Gods religion is most purelie mainteined, and their common wealth quietli gouerned: translated out of Frenche into Englishe by Robert Fills.

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The lavves and statutes of Geneua as well concerning ecclesiastical discipline, as ciuill regiment, with certeine proclamations duly executed, whereby Gods religion is most purelie mainteined, and their common wealth quietli gouerned: translated out of Frenche into Englishe by Robert Fills.
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Geneva (Switzerland)
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Printed at London :: By Rouland Hall [and Thomas Hacket], dwellyng in Gutter Lane, at the sygne of the halfe Egle and the Keye,
1562.
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Church discipline -- Early works to 1800.
Ecclesiastical law -- Switzerland -- Geneva -- Early works to 1800.
Church and state -- Switzerland -- Early works to 1800.
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"The lavves and statutes of Geneua as well concerning ecclesiastical discipline, as ciuill regiment, with certeine proclamations duly executed, whereby Gods religion is most purelie mainteined, and their common wealth quietli gouerned: translated out of Frenche into Englishe by Robert Fills." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01594.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 19, 2024.

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❧Of Mariage.

AFter the declaration of the banes accustomed, the Mariages to be

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made when the party shall require it, as well on the sondaye as working dayes, so that it be done at the begin∣ning of the sermon.

And as concerning the abstynence of the same, it shalbe good that onely vpon the day of the celebration of the supper, they absteyne for the honour of the same sacrament.

Item it shalbe good to bring in and vse ecclesiasticall songes or psalmes, ye better to stirre ye people vnto praier and praise god.

Item first they shall teache their li∣tle children, and so in the proces of time all the church may folowe.

Touching debate in causes matri∣monialls, for that it is not onelye a spirituall cause, but medled with the ciuile order, the same to remayne to the Seniorie: neuertheles we are de∣termyned to leaue to the consistorye the charge to heare the partyes, and so to make reporte of ther aduyse vn¦to the counsell, therin to geue Iudge∣ment, so that good ordinances may be from henceforthe made and folowed accordingly.

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