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.

CHAP.VIII.

V. JOhn Bonniot, or Bouquier, styling himself Gaultier, exercising the Mini∣stery at present at San Bouchard, near unto Great St. Foy, because that he hath temerariously intruded himself into the Ministery, without any Call, for that he hath forged divers Letters, clipped his Majesty's Coin, melted down his Clippings into base Silver Lingots, and vended them to several Goldsmiths in the City of Sedan, for which the Civil Magistrate inflicted corporal Punishment upon him in the said City, all which he could not but acknowledge and confess to be true before this Assembly; For these Causes the said Bonniot, or Bouquier is deposed from the Sacred Ministery, as a Per∣son uncapable, and utterly unworthy of it, and shall be continued on the Roll of Vagrants, and shall do publick Penance in the said Church of San Bouchard. However because of his deep Poverty, and great and numerous

Family of Children, we do License him to keep School, and to instruct Youth, but with this Proviso, that the Ministers of the Places, where he shall live, do watch over him and his Deportments with a very strict and care∣ful Eye.

VI. An Appeal was brought by Monsieur De la Jaille, and the Church of Saujon, who complained of the Wrongs done them by the Provincial Synod of Xaintonge held at Saujon, which had adjudged him Pastor unto the said Church of Saujon, without obliging it to defray his Expences in coming to it. This Assembly ordereth, that the Colloquy or Synod of that Province shall censure the said Church, and Monsieur Royan the Minister, for their pragmatical intermeddling in a Business not appertaining to them.

VII. Monsieur Boucquet shall write unto the Colloquy of Aunix, that Monsieur Baron may be returned unto the Church of La Guerche, in the Province of Anjon, there to exercise his Ministery, in Obedience to the Call given him.

VIII. The Synod of the Isle of France shall make an exact Enquiry into the Life, Writings, and Conversation of Monsieur Gibbon, sometime Mini∣ster of Deippe, that Judgment may pass upon him accordingly.

IX. Forasmuch as Mr. Bernard Giraud hath been divers times recalled by his Church of Marceoill, in Poictou, and by the Synod of Poictou, he shall be censured for his disobedience to this Summons, and also for that he quitted his Church at first, and this according to the Canons of our Disci∣pline: And the Colloquy of Annix shall in like manner be censured for ad∣mitting him among them without any testimonial Letters of Dismission. For which cause this Assembly will remove the said Giraud elsewhere.

X. This Assembly will take special care of Monsieur Christian for his Subsistance. But in the mean while, the Church of Poictiers shall be se∣verely censured for their default of Duty, baseness and ingratitude to this Reverend Man of God, who was one of their first and most ancient Pa∣stors, and who laid the very Foundations of their flourshing Church. And the said Church shall be summon'd to the next Synod, and injoyned to give him full Contentment and Satisfaction, and to pay him all Arrerages owing to him for time past, and to relieve him now in his old Age.

XI. The Province of Anjou shall be obliged to provide for the Safety of Monsieur Daniel, a Minister of the Gospel, who was formerly sent unto them, and is now remanded back unto them by this present Assembly, and that Church which shall call him unto their Service, shall re∣imburse him those Expences he was at, during the last Persecution.

XII. Monsieur Daniel shall exercise his Ministery in the House and Court of his Excellency the Prince of Conde, but only for some Months in the Year; which being expired, he may be redemanded by his own Church and Province. And the Church of Bergerac shall likewise lend Monsieur de Borda their Minister unto the said Prince for four Months more of the same Year; And this shall hold till such time as some other course be taken. And Monsieur Martin shall be the ordinary Minister of his Excellency's House and Family.

XIII. Monsieur de Malescot, who was the first Minister of the Church of Montagu, in the County of Perche, shall be summoned by the Province of Poictou, unto which he doth belong, to return unto the said Province ac∣cording to the Canons of our Discipline, however without any prejudice unto the said Church of Montagu; and the said Province of Poictou is or∣dered to receive those Informations of the Province of the Isle of France, concerning the Deportments of the said Malescot, his Writing, and his Way, and Manner of Preaching.

XIV. The Brethren of the French Church of London, in the Kingdom of England, sent Letters unto this Assembly, petitioning that Messieurs de Vil∣liers,

Minister of the Church of Rouan, and de la Fontayne, Ministers of the Church of Orleans might be given to them for their Pastors. Their Request was granted, and these worthy Ministers of the Gospel were lent unto the said Church, till such time as their own dissipated Flocks might be recollected; and then they should return, and be restored unto their former Churches respectively.

XV. On sight and perusal of the Writings of Mr. Anthony Fregeville, of the Town Realmont, this Assembly judgeth them utterly unworthy of any Answer, because they are stufft with Errors, Lyes and Calumnies; and farther, the Sentence past upon him by the Provincial Synod was rati∣fied, and whereas he was only suspended from the Lord's Table, it is now ordered, that his said Suspension shall be publickly notified unto the whole Church: And in case he continue to sow and spread abroad his Errors and Follies either by Word or Writing, he shall be cut off from the Body of the Church by the Sword of Excommunication, as a notorious Disturber of the Repose and Union of the Church.

XVI. Monsieur Giraud is sent unto the Town of Mas, in Agenois, to ex∣ercise his Ministery in the Church of Calonges, which is now annexed to that of Mas according to the Letters and Request of my Lady of Calonges, and of the said Church of Mas, in Agenois.