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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XIII.

Believers shall be Exhorted by the Consistories, yea, re∣quir'd in the Name of God, to speak truth, for as much as that don't at all derogate from the Magistrates Authority; as also the usual formalities in making Oath, practis'd be∣fore Magistrates, shall not be used.

CONFORMITY.

This Establishment has nothing in it but what is very agreeable to the use and practise of the Primitive Chri∣stians, as I may prove by sundry testimonies; I shall only instance in two, which the Oecumenical Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon give us, seeing that in one and the other, * 1.1 They Exhort, and Conjure the Bishops by the Holy Gospels, to speak the truth. If these two Councils have made no difficulty to do so towards Bishops; Where∣fore should not the Ecclesiastical Synod, as Origen speaks, have power to do so to particular persons, as occasion shall require?

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* 1.1

Conc. E∣phes. p. 2. Act. 1. Tom. 2. Con. p. 264, 265 Catch. Acts. Tom. 3. p. 131.

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