XVII.
For the future, all Sentences of Excommunication confir∣med by the Provincial Synod, shall continue firm, as also all Sentences of Suspension from the Lords Supper, given by the Consistory, the which not being published to the People, shall hold good, altho the party suspended appealed to the Colloque, or Provincial Synod.
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