XLIII.
It shall not be permitted for a Minister to possess any Inheritance under the Title of a Pastor; but if his Pension, or any part of it, were assign'd upon any Possession, Rent, or Revenue, all shall be administer'd by the Deacons, or other person appointed and deputed to this purpose, by whose hands the Minister shall receive his Salary, to take away all suspition of Avarice, and to the end, that by such sollicitudes, he may not be hinder'd from doing his Office and Duty.
St. Cyrill of Alexandria ordains something to this pur∣pose in his Canonical Epistle, when he saith, That the holy Vessels, and the immovables, must be left to the Churches; and leave to the Bishops which do the Functions of the Episcopacy, the dispensation of the