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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Quick, John, 1636-1706.
Publication: London :: Printed for T. Parkhurst and J. Robinson ...,; 1692.
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Subject terms: Eglises réformées de France.; Protestants -- France.; Huguenots -- France.
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Chap. I. Alterations, Additions, and Annotations upon the Church-Discipline. General MATTERS.

IT is Enacted by the Authority of this present National Synod, that none shall be put into the List of Vagrants, until such time as the Neighbour Churches have first proceeded against them according to the Canons of our Discipline and that they have clone their best endeavour to reclaim and re∣form them, and there shall be kept a particular Roll of those Vagrants di∣stinct from the Articles of the National Synod.

II. In Churches where there be several Ministers, none of them shall give a Certificate concerning any matter of Importance, without having first Communicated it with his other Brethren.

III. Elders may be present at Propositions of the Word of God, made by young Ministers, and at their Censures, and may freely, if it please them, pass their Judgment on them.

IV. Such who according to the custom of the Country do falsifie, disguise or corrupt their Merchandizes, as Stretchers, Drawers of Cloth in Poictou, shall be admonished by the Consistory to forbear those Cheats, and in case they should not desist, they shall be laid under Censures.

V. Pastors, who have obtained leave to follow their Studies for some time, shall apply themselves to their Colloquy or Synod for its confirmation, with∣out which they may not depart their Churches, lest by their departure the Churches be left unprovided.

VI. The determination of time and age capacitating persons to contract Marriage, doth properly belong to the Civil Magistrate.