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 CONTENTS OF THE INTRODUCTION.

The State of Religion in France before the Reformation, Section 1. The Dawn of it in the Preaching of Waldo, 2. And of his Disciples, 3. Persecutions raised against them, and by whom. 4. The glorious Out-breaking of the Re∣formation, how and by what Instruments in that Kingdom, 5. The Growth and Progress of it. Churches gathered. Pure Worship instituted. Bible tran∣slated into the Mother-Tongue, 6. New Persecutions excited. The first Na∣tional Synod, 7. Confession of Faith composed, and presented to the King, 8. The Confession it self, in 40 Articles, 9. Remarks upon the Confession, 10. Discipline designed, 11. The whole Body of the Discipline of those Reformed Churches in fourteen distinct Chapters, 12. Remarks upon the Discipline. And Apology for those Churches. Two thousand one hundred and fifty Reformed Churches in France in the Year 1571. They had more than 200000 Martyrs in ten Years time, 13. The Acme and Perfection of the Reformation. Re∣ligion at a stand for 22 Years, from the 1572, to the Year 1594. When Henry the Fourth last revolted then began the Reformation to lose ground in France. French Ministers Latitudinarians and Accommodators, who, and for what; but condemned by their National Synods, 14. The Edict of Nantes with all its Articles. The secret Articles of that Edict, 15. The President du Thou, and the Lord of Calignon spend three Years in drawing up this Edict, 16. Observation and Infractions of the Edict. Misery of the Reformed after the death of Henry the Fourth, 17. The Edict of Nismes granted to the D. of of Rohan, and the whole Body of the Protestants, 18. Reflections upon this Edict, and its Non-observation. A Declaration of this present King Louis the Fourteenth, confirming all the former Edicts of Pacification, with Ac∣knowledgment of the great Services and Merits of the Reformed, 19. The true Causes of their Ruin, the great Services they had done the King in his greatest needs, 20. The various Methods used for the destruction of the Pro∣testants in France. 21. Law Suits in many Articles and Cases, 22. Great Oppressions by fiery Zealots, 23. Protestants ruined by perjur'd Papists, 24.

Incouragements given to Popish Priests and Missioners. The Cheaters cheated, 25. The miserable condition of sick Protestants, 26. The cruel Oppressions of a French Gentleman, 27. A General Inundation of Criminal Proces∣ses. False Witnesses against Protestant Ministers, 28. The Reformed de∣prived of all Offices. Orders for it, 29. New Converts freed from paying of Debts. Protestants may not dispose of their Estates, 30. Violations of the Edict by corrupt Expositions of it, 31. The Schools of the Reformed, their Colleges and Ʋniversities suppress'd, 32. New Laws made which were a tor∣ment to them. Those Laws specified and enumerated, 33. Protestants may not receive into their Temples any revolted unto Popery. Seats in their Temples for the Roman Catholicks, 34. Multitudes foreseeing the approach∣ing Storm, quit the Kingdom, 35. The Protestants ruined by the Verbal De∣clarations of their King. His Letter to the Duke of Brandenburg, 36. Juggling Tricks used to mischief the Reformed, 37. Five most notable ones, 38. The Mob stirred up by Decrees to desire their extirpation, by veno∣mous Libels, 39. The care and endeavours of the Reformed for their own preservation, yet ineffectual, 40. Persecutions of the Protestants by Dra∣goons, 41. In Berne, their horrible Cruelties to fright the Reformed into Popery, 42. A Specimen of those Cruelties, 43. The barbarous usage of the Nobles and Commons of the Reformed in France: Several memorable Rela∣tions of it, 44. The Martyrdom of Monsieur Homel, 45. The Intendants, Bishops, Priests, and Missioners, Ring-leaders in persecution. A Form of Ab∣juration propounded and to be signed by the Protestants, 46. A Letter from Metz, giving an account of their sad estate there in that City, 47. A Let∣ter from Geneva, relating the doleful estate of the poor Refugees in that City, 48. Consultations at Court for the total extirpation of the Reformed Reli∣gion, 49. The Edict repealing that of Nantes, 50. The wretched estate of the exiled Pastors, 51. And of the remaining Protestants in that Kingdom, 52. Treacherous dealing with poor Ministers. A Letter about it, 53. The Pope's Congratulatory Letter to the King, 54. A Pastoral Letter to the Bre∣thren groaning under Babylonish Captivity and Tyranny, 55. Remarks upon the Manuscript Copies out of which this Synodicon was extracted and composed, 56. A Catalogue and Order and Time of the National Synods, 57.