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Because several Persons, to the end to decline or delay the sensure of their faults, appeal from one Ecclesiastical Assem∣bly to another, even to a National Synod, which by this means is more perplexed in clearing their Case than any other, for the time to come, all differences within the same Province; shall be definitively judged without appeal to the Provincial Synod of the Province, except what shall con∣cern the suspending and deposing as well of Pastors, as of
Elders, and Deacons, and the changing of Pastors from one Province to another; also the changing of a Church from one Colloque to another, and also that which concerns Doctrin, the Sacraments, and the whole Discipline; all which cases may gradually move even to the Nationall Synod, to receive the last and definitive Judgment.
To Authorise what Custom had done in several Countreys since the Council of Nice, at least it may seem to be so inferr'd from the Cannons of the Synod of Antioch in the year 341, Forty years before that of Con∣stantinople. Afterwards I say, it is certain, Appeal was made from Judgment of Provincial Synods to Councils of the whole Diocess, for the greater part of the heads contain'd in our Discipline, as is verified by most of the Cannons I have but now cited, particularly by those of Constantinople, of Calcedonia, and of the African Code, with the 95th of the same Code, to which may be joyned the Third Cannon of the Fourth Council of Toledo, assembled in the year 633. To. 4. Conc. pag. 582.