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.

About this Item

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.
Rights/Permissions: This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this text, in whole or in part. Please contact project staff at eebotcp-info@umich.edu for further information or permissions.
Subject terms: Eglises réformées de France.; Protestants -- France.; Huguenots -- France.
Link to this Item: http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56905.0001.001
Cite this Item: "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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A56905.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.

Pages

Of Delinquents, and Censur'd Persons, and what are these Offences which render them obnoxious unto Censures.

* 1.1X. THE Question being mov'd, whether a Copy may be given of the Excommunication, or of any other Censure; It was answered, That because the whole Process was a Matter of Conscience, it ought not to be given; And as for the publick Act, it's subject properly to the Magi∣strates Jurisdiction.

XI. The first Article was approv'd of, but after those words, And if not∣withstanding all this they do not convert, but persist in their Stubbornness and Obstinacy, there shall be added, On the fourth Lord's-day, the scandalous Per∣sons shall be Excommunicated, either in this or such like form as shall be ad∣vised on by the Consistory, we do declare unto the whole Congregation, that we do not own him for one of the Members of our Church, and in the Name, and by the Authority of our Lord Jesus we cut him off from it.

XII. On the third, unto those words, After they shall have continued firm, shall be added, without expecting the Advice of a National Synod.

Notes

* 1.1

No copy of Excommuni∣cation or Church-cen∣sures to be given.

Back to content