Conformity of the ecclesiastical discipline of the Reformed churches of France with that of the primitive Christians written by M. La Rocque ... ; render'd into English by Jos. Walker.

XXXIV.

If in one year after the time of Loan is expired, the Church don't re-demand its Pastor, he shall belong to the Church which borrowed him; always provided, the Minister willingly consents thereunto; but if he be not willing, he shall submit to the direction of the Colloque, or Synod of the Church to which he had been lent. And this rule also shall be in force for the Ministers which by reason of Persecution shall flye to other Churches; and the persecution ceasing, not being demanded by their former Churches in a years time, the which shall commence after the warning which shall have

been given to the said first Churches by the said Mi∣nisters.

CONFORMITY.

Because it may so sall out, that a Church which shall have lent one of her Ministers, does not recall him after the Expiration of time for which he was lent, no diffi∣culty is made of translating him wholly to the Church which had borrowed him, the silence of the other being then look'd upon as a kind of Consent. Which also is to be appli'd to those which joining themselves to other Churches by reason of Persecution, are not re∣demanded by theirs when the Persecution is over; for on these occasions, it is as much as if they had granted unto them those Letters of Congé which the Ancients called Dimissoria's, with the which a Church-man could serve in another Church, in the same Province, or in any other.