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.
Author
Larroque, Matthieu de, 1619-1684.
Publication
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 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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A49602.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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XXV.
Those who have been contracted; and that have cohabit∣ted together before being lawfully Marryed, whether their fault came to be known before or after Marriage is solem∣nized, they shall make publick confession of their fault, or before the Consistory, according as it shall think convenient. And it hapning before Marriage, such Solemnities shall be observed at the said Marriage as the Consistory shall think fit. Except those who shall have lived together during the time of their ignorance without contempt and slighting of
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the Ecclesiastical Order; also those which shall have coha∣bited together when there was no Church setled at the place of their Habitations, or in the Province. All which shall only be cited to the Consistory, to the end the Marriage may be Ratified and Blessed in the Church, if the Consistory shall see it Expedient.
CONFORMITY.
St. Basil in his Third Canonical Epistle, Can. 69.
* 1.1 had appointed something of this kind in these terms, If a Reader has known his Sweetheart before Marriage, he shall be suspended from his Office for a year, at the Expiration whereof he shall do his Duty, without being capable of ad∣vancement. By this may be seen, he would have de∣creed against Lay People which should have commit∣ted the like Offence, the pains expressed in our Dis∣cipline. The Frier Blastares which I have often cited, especially on the XX. Article of this Chapter, will,
* 1.2 that the Punishment of Fornicators be given to those that have known each other before they have been lawfully Marryed.
Cardinal Borrome in the Second Council he caused to be held at Millan in the year 1569,
* 1.3 remits the Abso∣lution of the Sin now treated of to the Bishop, because 'tis frequently committed, and prescribes severe Pen∣nance for those that are guilty of it; which he repeats again in the Sixth Council Assembled at the same place Thirteen Years after the Second.