III.
In times of great Persecution, or of Plague, War, Fa∣mine, or other great affliction. Also when Election is to be
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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- 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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- Larroque, Matthieu de, 1619-1684.
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- London :: Printed for Tho. Cockbrill ...,
- 1691.
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- Huguenots -- France.
- Church polity -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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made of Ministers of the Word of God, and at the time of entering into the Synod, one may if necessity require, one or more days, have publick Prayers, with fasting, yet without seruple, or superstition, all done with great caution, and con∣sideration. And the Churches shall be advertis'd to conform one with another in celebrating a Fast, as near as they can, according to convenience of time and place.
CONFORMITY.
Tertullian being turn'd Montanist, and by consequence an Enemy of Catholicks and the Orthodox, * 1.1 whom he treats injuriously and after an unchristian manner: Ter∣tullian, I say, reproaches them in his Book of Abstinence, which he wrote expresly against them, he reproaches them that they fasted voluntarily according to the subject and occasion they had for it, and in the same Book he saith, that the Bishops were wont to appoint the People to fast when the Church had need to humble it self in the sight of God, * 1.2 and that it is in fear of some evil that threa∣tens it; this was the manner of the Antient Christians in celebrating of Fasts; an order which we exactly follow, and which is grounded in that Jesus Christ nor his Apo∣stles, have not prescrib'd in any place of the New Testa∣ment on what dayes one should or should not fast, as St. Austin has observ'd in his 86 Epistle to Casulanus.
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* 1.1
cap. 2. p. 545.
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* 1.2
Ibid cap. 13. p. 551 Extr.