XVI.
Ministers nor any else in the Church, cannot Print Books made by themselves or others touching Religion, nor any way publish them, without communicating them to the Colloque, or if need be to the Provincial Synod, and if the matter require hast, to the Accademies, or to two Pastors which shall be nominated by the Synod, and shall attest the Examination by them made of the said Writings.
CONFORMITY.
This Ordinance is very necessary to prevent all the evil consequences as may sometimes ensue without the Examination therein prescribed; the same thing is done amongst the Papists, whose works are commonly ap∣proved by some Doctors, and at Rome by the Master of the Sacred Pallace. See what I have said on the Fifteenth Article of the First Chapter,