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. IV. Observation on Reading the Confession of Faith.

1. WHereas there is mention made in the 14th Article of the Here∣sies of Servetus, some of the Deputies desired that the specifying of them might be removed, because those his Heresies are now as it were dead and buried, and the Deputies of the Provinces, in pursuance of that Decree past in the last National Synod of St. Maixant, having brought with them the Judgment of their respective Provinces upon this Subject, it was thought meet, that nothing should be innovated in that Article, but that it should be entirely left as we found it.

2. That Union in Doctrine may be preserved among us, and no Errors may be suffered to creep into our Churches: All Pastors in actual service, and all Proposans who are to be received into the Ministry, shall sign this following Article,

I Whose Name is here under-written, do receive and approve the Contents of the Confession of Faith of the Reformed Churches in this Kingdom, and do promise to persevere in it until death, and to believe and teach agreeably there∣unto. And whereas some persons contend about the sense of the eighteenth Article, treating of our Justification, I declare and protest before God, that I understand it in the same sense in which it is received in our Churches, approved by our Na∣tional Synods, agreeably to the Word of God, which is, That our Lord Jesus Christ was obedient to the Moral and Ceremonial Law, not only for our good, but also in our stead, and that his whole Obedience yielded by him thereunto is imputed to us, and that our Justification consists not only in the forgiveness of sins, but also in the Imputation of his Active Righteousness; and subjecting my self unto the Word of God, I believe that the Son of Man came to serve, and that he was not a Servant because he came into the World. I do also promise, that I will never de∣part from the Doctirne received in our Churches, and that I will yield all Obe∣dience to the Canons of our National Synods in this matter. And this Article shall be religiously observed in and by all the Provinces.

3. Our Printers be forbidden henceforward to print the Confession of Faith with this Title, The Confession of Faith revised and amended by the National Synod.

4 The Confession of Faith being read, and heard, was approved by all the Deputies, who protested that by the Grace of God, they would live and die in it: As was manifest by their Act in swearing the said Union.