ARTICLE I.
NO Body shall be received to the Communion of the Church. until he has first publickly renounced all Su∣perstitions and Idolatries of the Church of Rome, and of the Mass, especially.
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,