Synodicon in Gallia reformata, or, The acts, decisions, decrees, and canons of those famous national councils of the reformed churches in France being I. a most faithful and impartial history of the rise, growth, perfection and decay of the reformation in that kingdom, with its fatal catastrophe upon the revocation of the Edict of Nants in the year 1685 : II. the confession of faith and discipline of those churches : III. a collection of speeches, letters, sacred politicks, cases of conscience, and controversies in divinity, determined and resolved by those grave assemblies : IV. many excellent expedients for preventing and healing schisms in the churches and for re-uniting the dismembred body of divided Protestants : V. the laws, government, and maintenance of their colleges, universities and ministers, together with their exercise of discipline upon delinquent ministers and church-members : VI. a record of very many illustrious events of divine providence relating to those churches : the whole collected and composed out of original manuscript acts of those renowned synods : a work never be extant in any language.

The Continuation of other General and Ecclesiastical Matters.

• Article 31. FOrasmuch as the far greater Part of the Provinces have not took any Order about the Expences of their Deputies sent unto this Synod, the Assembly desirous to provide for their Indemnity without Prejudice to that Vantage-Assessment they might lay claim unto, or which had been granted to them, did pass this Decree, That their respective Provinces should pay them after the Rate of an hundred Sous, being eight Shil∣lings and four Pence Sterling Money a day, and they shall be ac∣countable to them for those Portions accruing from the Sum granted by his Majesty towards the defraying of our Synodical Expences.
• Article 32. Henceforward, whenas a Professor's Place in Theology, in any one of our Universities, comes by his Death to be vacant, that it may not be any long time void, and that the University-Councils may have fit Persons ready at hand, whom they may chuse and call in to supply the Office of the Deceased; this Synod desirous to repair so great a Loss, exhorteth the Lords of Chamvernon, de L'angle, Texier, du Soul, Daillé, Bochart of Caen, to separate themselves unto the Profession of Theology, that they may take it upon them, whenever the Necessities of our Uni∣versities shall require it.
• Article 33. Forasmuch as particular Actions cannot be truly and impartially judged but from a due Consideration had of all their Circumstances; this Assembly not being able to enact a Canon concerning Persons accused of Bankerouting, doth leave the whole Affair to the Prudence of Con∣sistories, how and in what manner to proceed against them as they shall see to be most expedient.
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• ... Article 34. The Province of Lower Guyenne having requested it, the As∣sembly declareth, that the appointing of publick Fasts, and of all other Deliberations relating to the Discipline of our Churches, and the up∣holding of their Order, ought to be determined in Ecclesiastical Meet∣ings by the Plurality of Pastors and Elders Suffrages, without any prefer∣ring of one above another.
• Article 35. Over and above those Attestations which Scholars are wont to bring with them from the Professors and Regents of those Univer∣sities under whose Direction they have followed their Studies, the Synod doth ordain, that they shall also take out Attestations from the Pastors and Consistory of their Lives and Conversations.
• Article 36. Forasmuch as the Church judgeth not them that are without, and doth not exercise any Jurisdiction on those who have quitted her Commu∣nion: This Assembly judgeth it not meet that those Persons should be publickly from the Pulpit censured, who that they might marry with Parties of a contrary Religion, have abandoned the true Religion which they formerly professed.
• Article 37. Without prejudicing the Rights of the Province of Provence and Burgundy, this Assembly grants the Power of calling the next National Synod unto that of Anjou.