The Custom of Godfathers and Godmothers to pre∣sent Children at Baptisme, is very Ancient, seeing Ter∣tullian makes mention of it in his Book of Baptisme, chap. 18. St. Austin in his Twenty Third Epistle saith, they are presented by their Father or Mother, or by others; * 1.1 the pretended Dennis the Areopagite in his Ec∣clesiastical Hierarchy, speaks but of Godfathers, which should be faithful, and chosen by those which are to be Christned, if they are Adults, or by the Fathers and Mothers, if they are young Children; and he would also make the Reader believe that 'twas instituted by the Apostles. Gregory the First in his Book of Sacra∣ments, doth not also forget those which present Chil∣dren at Baptisme. As for Cesarius of Arles, he declares in the Twelfth of his Homilies, given us by Monsieur Baluze, that the Father and Mother are to be answera∣ble, the VI. Cannon of the Council of Metz in the year 888, * 1.2 ordains that the Father or Mother of the Child receives it when it comes out of the Baptismal Foun∣tain, so great Liberty has been us'd by the Church in these things: Read the Three last Testimonies I have mentioned on the Twelfth Article.
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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CONFORMITY.
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* 1.1
Tom. 2. cap. 2. & 7. p. 215, 216. 217, 361. Paris 1644.
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* 1.2
Tom. 3. Conc. Gall. p. 526.