ARTICLE I.
IN each Province there shall be a Division of Churches, according to the Number of them, and the conveniencie of Places, into Classes, or Colloques, the most contiguous. And this Partition shall be made by Authority of the Pro∣vincial Synod. And the Neighbour Churches shall so assemble in Colloques, twice a year, or four times a year, if it may be done, according to the Antient Custom, this being referred to the discretion of Provinces, and there the Ministers shall meet with one Elder of each Church.
Our Colloques do in a manner agree with the Dioce∣san Synods of each Bishop, * 1.1 like that of Anacharius Bi∣shop of Auxer, in the year 578; or to the Assemblies of some Neighbouring Bishops, to decide the Differen∣ces which hapned in the adjacent Parts, it is to what do amount the Cannons 11, 20, 28, 125. Of the Afri∣can Code of Mr. Justel; However it be, it appears by the 100 Cannon of the same Code, that the Ecclesiasti∣cal Elders, and of the Order of Layicks, assisted at these sort of Judgments; * 1.2 I know not but Firmillian Bishop of Cesaria in Cappadocia, had this Custom in his mind when he wrote to St. Cyprian, We do meet every Year, Pastors and Elders, to regulate the things committed to our care.