Articles agreed on in the nationall synode of the Reformed Churches of France, held at Charenton neere Paris, in the moneth of September, 1623 Which the same ordaineth to be inuiolably kept in all the churches and vniversities of that realme.

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But whereas others being called by the ministerie of the Gospell doe come, and are converted, that is not to be attri∣buted vnto the man, as if hee by his owne free will made him∣selfe differ from others, which are also furnished with like, or (at least) with sufficient grace, to belieue and bee converted; (as the prowde heresie of Pelagius mainetaineth.) But vnto God, who as he hath elected his from all eternity in Christ, so hee cals them effectually in their due times, giues them faith and repentaunce, and having delivered them from the power of darknesse, transports them into the kingdome of

his Sonne, to the end that they should declare the vertues of him, who hath called them from darknesse to his marveilous light; and that they should glory, not in themselues, but in the Lord, as the Apostolique writings witnesse in divers & sun∣drie places.