LII.
The National Synods shall be advertis'd by the Provincial ones, of those which shall be Deposed, to the end they should not receive them.
In the Primitive Church, when any Pastor was De∣posed, advice was given to all the Churches, to the end that none should receive him; * 1.1 according to which, after the Synod of Antioch had Deposed Paul of Samosa∣tia, in the 3d Century, for Heresy, it wrote a long, fair Letter, to all the Bishops, and to all the Churches in general, to inform them at large, of all that had passed in the Condemnation of this great Heretick. Alexander Bishop of Alexandria, having Condemned Arrius, and his adherents, he also writ to all the Catholick Bishops, To the end, * 1.2 saith he, that you should not receive him, if by chance he should have the confidence to go to you, and that you should not give credit to what Eusebius, or any one else may write to you in his behalf: St. Hillary, Bishop of Poictiers, informs us in his Fragments, That the Western Bishops, Assembled at Sirmium, in the year 350.