The Church in all Ages has refused to receive Persons into her Communion, until they had first given an ac∣count of their Faith, and had renounced all Errors they had formerly professed, and all the false Worship they had before preached; I may prove this Truth by sun∣dry Cannons, but I'le only produce some, the thing be∣ing clear of it self; The Sixth Cannon of Laodicea is ex∣press on this Subject. Hereticks must not be permitted to enter into the House of God, if they persevere in their He∣resie. The Seventh is no less formal; Those amongst the Novatians, Photinians, or Quarto decimans, nor those amongst them they call Believers, until they first anathe∣matize all Heresie, especially that wherein they were detain'd. To this same Subject may be apply'd the 37th and 58th Cannons of the same Synod; about Forty years before the Great Council of Nice had order'd in the VIII. Can∣non touching the Catharians, that when they return'd to the Communion of the Church, they should be ob∣lig'd to declare by writing, That they imbrac'd all the Doctrines of the Catholick and Apostolick Church: And that by consequence they renounce all the Errors con∣trary to them, and wherewith they had been infected,
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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- 1691.
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- Church polity -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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and because all Errors are not alike dangerous, the Se∣cond Oecumenical Council assembled at Constantinople in the year 381, prescribes in the Seventh Cannon, the manner of receiving those which turn to the Church, and this method is different according to the Diversity of Errors of those which are converted, but after all, the least that is expected of them, Is to anathematize by Writing, all manner of Heresie as doth not agree with the Dogma's of the Holy Catholick and Apostolick Church.