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The Council of Ancyra, in the Year 314. made a Decree which was very conformable to this of our Disci∣pline; If those which have been orduin'd Bishops, saith he, * 1.1 are not receiv'd into the Churches for which they have been named, and that nevertheless they endeavour to get into others, and to offer violence to those that are duly establish'd, and to stir up troubles against them, let such be depos'd; but if they will continue in the Presbytery, wherein they were
formerly Priests, let them not lose the honour of Episcopacy; whereas, if they stir up Seditions against those which are setled Bishops, 'tis sit they should be depriv'd of the honour of the Preshytery, * 1.2 and intirel••d pos'd. The Ist Council of T••••rs, assembled Ann 46. requires that he be ex∣communicated from the Clergy which forsakes his Church without the Bishops permission, to settle himself in any other place. * 1.3 That of Reimes, orders almost the very same thing again Church-Vagabonds, in the year 465. In the Council of Valentia in Spain, assembled Ann. 524. the like Edict was made against inconstant and wandring Clerks, Can. 5. Tom. 3. Conc. pag. 820. See Synesius on the 22d Article in his 67th Epistle, how he declaims against these wandring Clergy-men, whe∣ther they be Bishops, or others and judges it is not fit they should have any publick mark of Honour amongst the Clergy, nor admission into any other Churches, to ob∣lige them to return to their own.
Can. 18.
Tom. 1. Conc Gal. p. 126. C••n. 11.
Ibid. p. 138. c. 5.