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.
Geneva (Switzerland), Fills, Robert, fl. 1562.
❧Of sacramentes.
THat baptisme be not mynistered but incontinent after the sermon and onely mynistred by the mini¦sters or coadiutours: and that they doe register the names of the children wt their parents: and if their be founde Page 12 anye basterde, the iustice to be aduer∣tised therof, and therin to procede ac∣cording to reason.
Item that no straunger be receiued as godfather, but those that be faith∣full people and of •ure communion, consydering that others be not meete to make promyse vnto the churche to instructe the infantes as it is re∣quyred.
