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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Larroque, Matthieu de, 1619-1684.
Publication: London :: Printed for Tho. Cockbrill ...,; 1691.
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Subject terms: Huguenots -- France.; Church polity -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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XLV.

Ministers shall be subject to Censures.

CONFORMITY.

All Pastors were subject to the Canons, and by con∣sequence to the Censures enjoined by the Canons; it is a known Truth, and which is not contested by those who have any knowledg of the practise of the Ancient Church. * 1.1 The Council of Turin, in the Year 397. in its Synodal Epistle, saith, They were Assembled to pre∣serve

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the Blessing of Peace, and the Decrees of the Canons, and to apply a profitable remedy to Mens minds; and in the 5th Canon, speaking of a certain Priest called Exuperantius, it saith, He was deprived of the Communion of the Lord, because he had done something against the Ecclesiastical Discipline. Therefore it was, * 1.2 that the Council of Chalcedon requires, * 1.3 that the Canons be observed which had, till then, been made by the holy Fathers; and the Synod of Chalons upon Soan, in the Year 650. enjoins all Men, in the 2d Canon, inviola∣bly to observe the Decrees of the Councils: Thence it is, that the 4th Council of Orleans, in the year 541. in the same Volume of French Councils, speaks in the 37th Canon, of the Censures which were made in the Synods; to which also may be referr'd, the 3d and 22d Canons of the Synod of Antioch; and the 25th of that of Chalcedon; and in the 4th of the 7th Council of Tolledo, Anno Dom. 646. it is said expresly, That if any Bishop be so inconsiderate, as to violate the Decree of the Council, the Censure and Punishment which the Fathers have enjoin'd, * 1.4 shall be inflicted on those which transgress the Canons.

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* 1.1

Tom. 1. Conc. Gall. p. 27.

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* 1.2

Can. 1.

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* 1.3

Tom. 1. Conc Gall. p. 490.

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* 1.4

Tom. 4. Concil. p. 640.

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