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Altho this Article hath been already explained in what has been deliver'd in the preceding ones, yet I will add something for the fuller clearing of it; I say then, it was so done in regard of Paul of Samosatia, Bishop of Antioch, who being convicted of Heresy, was presently Depos'd, as Eusebius informs us. The 25th Canon of the Apostles, ordains to inflict the same punishment on Bishops, on Priests, and Deacons, which shall be con∣victed of Fornication, of Perjury, and of Robbery; and a Council of Lerida, of which we have already made mention, shews no more favour against Church-men convicted of enormous and crying sins, alledging for a reason, That their vicious examples are a scandal to the People of God. The second Council of Sevill, in the Year 619. decrees in the 6th Canon, That it should be done by authority of the Synod to which it refers, as our Discipline does the definitive Judgment of these Depo∣sitions, Tom. 4. Conc. Pag. 559.