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. VII. Of Colloquies.

• CANON I. IN every Province the Churches shall be divided according to their num∣ber and conveniency of neighbour places into Colloquies or Classes. And this Division shall be made by authority of the Provincial Synod. And the next adjoining Churches shall meet in Colloquies twice or four times a year, if it may be done, as of ancient times it hath been ordained. The ap∣pointment of time is left wholly to the prudence of Provinces, and unto these Colloquies the Ministers accompanied each of them with an Elder from every Church, shall give their personal attendance.
• CAN. II. And the proper business of such Colloquies and Assemblies, shall be to consult about composing differences and difficulties emerging in their Churches, according to the Canons of our Discipline; and in general to provide for whatsoever may be thought expedient and necessary to the weal and maintenance of our Churches.
• CAN. III. And in these Colloquies Ministers in their turns shall make a Proposition from the Word of God, that so their care and diligence in the study of the Scripture, and their method and form of handling it, may be known.
• CAN. IV. As Consistories are subject and subordinate unto Colloquies, so are Col∣loquies unto the authority of Provincial Synods.
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• ... CAN. V.* 1.1Colloquies and Synods shall consult about the extent and bounds of those places in which each Minister shall exercise his Ministry.
• CAN. VI. In the close of Colloquies there shall pass a friendly and fraternal Cen∣sure upon Pastors and Elders there present, in all matters of which it may be thought fit to admonish them.

Notes

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  Chap. VIII. Of Provin∣cial Synods.