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.

CONFORMITY.

There's nothing in this Article but what is very con∣formable to the ancient Discipline, according to which each Church had power to inflict throughout the whole extent of its Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, the necessary pu∣nishments and Censures against all sorts of offences; so that when a Bishop had Excommunicated any one, none but the Synod of the Province could take off the Excom∣munication; as there was none but the Synod of the whole Diocess which comprehended several Provinces which could reverse the Sentence of a Provincial Synod. Therefore 'tis, that the Sixth Canon of the first Oecume∣nical Council of Constantinople, the 9. and 17. of that of Chalcedon, suffers to appeal from the Bishop to the Pro∣vincial

Synod, and from the Provincial to that of the whole Diocess, of which we have a resemblance in our National Synods.