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.

XI.

Those who have been a long time in the Church, and will not communicate of the Lords Supper if they do it through contempt, as for fear of being obliged to forsake all man∣ner of Idolatry, after several admonitions, they shall be cut off from the body of the Church; but if it be by infir∣mity, they shall be borne with for some time, until they can be Established.

CONFORMITY.

There's nothing in this Article that differs from the practice of the Antient Church, which obliged all those which heard the Word of God to participate of the Lords Supper; 'tis what is intimated by the Second Cannon of the Council of Antioch, Those which enter into the Assem∣blies, and hear the Holy Scriptures, but by a certain looseness, do not communicate in Prayer with the People, and deprive themselves of the participation of the Lords

Supper, let such be cast out of the Church. The Ninth of those attributed to the Apostles, and which probably was borrowed of that of Antioch, is no less positive; All the Believers which enter into the Church, and that hear the Reading of the Scriptures, but which stay not for the Prayers, nor do receive the Holy Sacrament, let them be cut off, because they give offence to the Church. Thence it is that in the Eleventh chap. of the Eighth Book of Constitutions, called the Apostles, it is Ordained, That the Deacons should stand at the Doors where the Men sit, and the Ʋnder-Deacons of that of the Women, to hinder that no body go out during the time of the Oblation; that is to say, during the time of celebrating the Eucharist.