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A56905	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.	Quick, John, 1636-1706.; Eglises réformées de France.	1692 (1692)	Wing Q209; ESTC R10251	1,424,843	1,304

Converts are not alwayes so guided and moved of God as they may not through their own fault in some particular Actions swerve from the Conduct of his Grace and be seduced by the Lusts of the Flesh to obey it Therefore they ought alwayes to watch and pray that they may not be led into temptation and in case they neglect this their Duty they are not only obnoxious to be seduced and drawn away by the Flesh the World and Satan into grievous and atrocious Sins but by the just permission of God they do actually fall and that very shamefully And we have sad instances of this in David Peter and divers other Godly Persons mentioned in Scripture CANON V. In the mean while by such Sins they hainously offend God and render themselves guilty of Death they grieve the Holy Spirit they interrupt the Course and Exercise of their Faith they do wound their Consciences most sorely and may lose the Sence and Feeling of the grace of God for a time 'till that he do once again lift up the Light of his Fatherly loving Countenance upon them vvhich he may do upon the serious renevval of their Repentance and returning into the good vvayes of their Duty CANON VI. For God vvho is rich in Mercy according to the unchangeable purpose of Election doth not utterly take away from his own his Holy Spirit no not in their greatest and most lamentable falls nor doth he suffer them to fall so low as to lose the grace of Adoption and their Estate of Justification or to commit that Sin unto Death against the Holy Ghost Nor doth he so forsake them as to suffer them to be precipitated into Everlasting Destruction CANON VII For even under those falls God preserveth in them principally and most carefully his Immortal Seed of Regeneration so that it is not totally lost nor destroyed in them Yea and afterwards he doth truely and effectually renew them by his Word and Spirit and bring them to Repentance working in them a godly sorrow for their Sins so that with a contrite and broken heart they do petition for and obtain their pardon through Faith in the Blood of the Mediator and feel once again the Grace of a Reconciled God and adore his faithfulness and tender bowels of Compassion and do for the future work out their Salvation more sollicitously with fear and trembling CANON VIII So then 't is not from any Merit or Strength of their own but by the Sole and Soveraign Free Grace and Mercy of God that they do not totally loose Faith and Grace nor live and die and perish finally in their Sins which might easily have been done and without all doubt would have eventually befallen them had it not been for God himself who can in no wise suffer his Council to be changed nor his Promise to be vacated nor that their Calling decreed in his Eternal Purpose should be revoked nor the Merit and Intercession of the Lord Jesus and his keeping of them should be annihilated nor the Seal of his Holy Spirit to be evacuated and abolished CANON IX And as for that keeping of the Elect unto Salvation and the perseverance of true Believers in Faith Believers themselves may be and are according to the Degrees of their Faith assured of it by which they be certainly perswaded that they are and shall continue true and lively Members of Christs Church and that they shall obtain the forgiveness of all their Sins and at last Everlasting Life CANON X. And therefore this Assurance doth not arise from any particular Revelation which is besides or without the Word but it proceedeth from Faith in Gods promises which he hath most abundantly revealed in his Holy Word for our comfort and from the witness of his Holy Spirit together with our Spirit that we be the Children and Heirs of God Rom. 8.16 17. and finally from a Serious and Religious Study and endeavour to keep a good Conscience and the unwearied performance of good works And should Gods Elect be deprived here below of this Sacred Consolation that they shall obtain at last the Victory should they be destitute of this infallible pledge and earnest of Eternal Glory they would be of all Men the most miserable CANON XI Yet notwithstanding the Scriptures testifie that Believers must conflict in this Life with many doubts arising from the Flesh and being thus agitated with grievous temptations they may not then feel this full Consolation of Faith and this certainty of preserving But God the Father of all Consolation will not suffer them to be tempted above what they are able to bear but together with the temptation will give them strength to undergo it and a most happy issue out of it 1 Cor. 10.13 and by his Holy Spirit will again revive in them the assurance of their perseverance CANON XII And this Assurance of persevering to the end is so far from rendring true Believers proud or plunging them into Carnal Security that its rather the Soarce and Root of true Humility and of Filial Fear of true Godliness and Patience in all our Conflicts and Combats of most ardent Prayers constancy under the Cross confession of the Truth and of Solid Rejoycing in God So that the Consideration of this benefit is a Spur and Incentive to quicken and provoke them to a serious and dayly Exercise of Thanksgiving and good Works As is evident from Scripture Instances and the Examples of Saints CANON XIII So that when as the Confidence of Perseverance is enkindled again in the faithful which are recovered from their falls this doth not beget in them a laziness and neglect of Piety but a far greater care to keep themselves in the ways of God which are ordained for us to walk in And they retain the certainty of their hope least by abusing the Paternal Love and Kindness of their God he should once again turn away his gracious and loving Countenance from them the sight whereof is unto all the faithful far better than Life and the deprival of it far more bitter than Death and they should fall into greater anguish and torments of Conscience CANON XIV And forasmuch as it hath pleased God by his grace to begin his Work in us through the preaching of the Gospel so also will he preserve continue and perfect it by the Hearing Reading Counsels Threatnings and Promises of the Gospel and by our Usage of the Sacraments CANON XV. This Doctrine of the Assurance and Perseverance of Real Saints and sound Believers which is so abundantly revealed by God in his Word unto the glory of his Name and the Consolation of Pious Souls and which is imprinted by him on the hearts of the Faithful is such as no Flesh can comprehend Satan hates the World laugheth at the Ignorant and Hypocrites abuse and is opposed by erroneous Spirits But on the other hand it hath been ever beloved and that most ardently by the Spouse of Christ and as a most inestimable

pur-blind about eight and thirty years of Age Deposed by the aforesaid Synod held at Nay for his un-natural and un-dutiful Carriage unto his Aged Parents for very great and shrewd suspicions of Adultery from which he could never clear himself and because in his common Deportments and Conversation he acted as one altogether unworthy the Sacred Ministry 12. John Perrier formerly Pastor in the Church of Paillac in Auvergne low of Stature red Hair copper-Nos'd about fifty years old Deposed by the Synod of Burgundy for deserting his Church and a great many other Crimes All these afore-mentioned Acts Decsiions and Canons were past in the National Synod of the Reformed Churches of France and Principality of Bearne assembled at Charenton St. Maurice near Paris from the First of September to the First of October in the year 1623. As also was sworn the Oath of Union in Doctrine and Discipline and of fidelity to His Majesty as was practised heretofore in these National Synods and in the very words of that Oath framed by the Synod of Alez Thus Subscribed by Durant Moderator Bailly Assessor Faucheur Scribes and de Launay Scribes And there was this Appendix written by the hand of the Lord de Launay at the close of this Synod A True Copy sent unto the Colloquy in the Land of Chartres attested by the Manual Subscription of De L' Aunay one of the Scribes of the said Synod and one of the Deputies for the Province of the Isle of France and by these Deputies whose Names follow William Rivett Berlie Pastor of the Church in Quissac J. Clerc De Chambrun Chamier Pastor of the Church at Montlimart St. Amblier Jurieu Pastor of Chastillion on the Loir Villon Havres M. de Langle Pastor in the Church of Rouen P. Paulett Pastor of Vezenobre D' Avignon Pastor at Rennes P. Beraud Pastor and Professor in the Church of Montauban Savoye Pastor in the Church of Castres Isle Pelletier Pastor in the Church of Vandome Cottiby Pastor at Poictiers CHAP. XXVI CANONS and DECREES Made and Establish'd in the National Synod of the Reformed Churches of France held at Charenton near Paris September l623 inviolably to be observed by all the Churches and Vniversities in that Kingdom CHAP. I. Of Predestination Election and Reprobation CANON I. FOrasmuch as all Mankind sinned in Adam and are thereby become liable unto the Curse and Eternal Death God had done them no wrong in case he had left Men in their Estate of Sin and under the Curse and Damn'd them for evermore Thus speaketh the Holy Apostle Rom. 3.19 22. All have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God And Rom. 6.23 The Wages of Sin is Death CANON II. But in this hath God manifested his Love that he sent his onely Son into the World that whosoever believeth in him may not perish but obtain everlasting Life 1 John 4.9 John 3.16 CANON III. And that Men may be brought to believe God sendeth the glad tydings of Salvation in the Gospel to whom he pleaseth by the Ministration whereof Men are called unto Repentance and Faith in Jesus Christ crucified For how shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard And how shall they hear without a Preacher And how shall they preach unless they be sent Rom. 10.14 15. CANON IV. Such as believe not the Gospel the Wrath of God abideth on them but such as receive and embrace Christ Jesus the Saviour with a true and lively Faith they be delivered by him from the wrath of God and Damnation and are made partakers of Everlasting life CANON V. God is in no wise the Cause nor guilty of Mens unbelief they themselves are as of all other their Sins But Faith in Jesus Christ and Salvation by him is the free gift of God according as it is written Ephes 2.8 You are saved by Grace through Faith and this not of your selves but the gift of God and also Philip. 1.29 To you it is given freely and graciously to believe in Christ Jesus CANON VI. That God giveth Faith in his time unto some and not unto others this proceeds from his Everlasting Decree for known unto God from the beginning are all his works Acts. 15.18 And he doth all things according to the Council of his own Will Ephes 1.11 And in the Execution of this Decree he doth by his grace soften the hearts of the Elect though they be never so hard and stony and maketh them to believe but he doth in his Righteous Judgment leave the Non-Elect in their Wickedness and Obduracy And from this do we principally discover the profound depths of his Mercy and also that just distinction among the Children of Men who were all equally forlorne lost and undone Sinners And as the Decrees of Election and Reprobation revealed by Gods Holy Word doth administer unspeakable Consolation to Pious and Devout Persons so as the Ungodly and Unbelievers take it it must needs be wrested and perverted to their destruction CANON VII Now Election is the unchangeable purpose of God by which according to the most free and good pleasure of his Will out of mere Grace he hath chosen in Jesus Christ unto Salvation before the foundation of the World out of Mankind fallen by their own fault from their first Integrity into Sin and Destruction a certain number of Men who were in themselves not better than others for they were all alike plung'd into the same gulph of Misery And this Jesus Christ God hath also constituted from all Eternity the Head and Mediator of his Elect and the Foundation-stone of their Salvation and so decreed to give them unto Christ that he might save them and call and draw them effectually by his Word and Spirit into Communion with himself and to give them true saving Faith in him to justifie and sanctifie them and having kept them by his Mighty Power in Communion with his Son to shew forth the Sovereignty of his Mercy and the praise of the Riches of the Glory of his Grace he will at last glorifie them as it is written Ephes 1.4 5 6. God hath chosen us in Christ before the Foundation of the World that we might be Holy and unblameable before him in love having predestinated us unto the Adoption of Children by Jesus Christ unto himself according to the good pleasure of his Will to the praise of the Glory of his Grace wherein he hath made us accepted in his Well-Beloved And Rom. 8.29 Whom he predestinated them he also called and whom he called them he also justified and whom he justified them he also glorified CANON VIII This Election is not divers for kind but one and the same only as to all that shall be saved in the Old and New Testament For the Scriptures doth teach and preach but one only good Pleasure Purpose Decrees and Counsel of Gods Will by which he hath chosen us from Eternity both to Grace and Glory to Salvation the End and to the way and means

But as for us who adore these Divine Mysteries let us cry out with the Apostle Rom. 11.33 34 35 36. O! The Depths of the Riches and of the Wisdom and Knowledge of God how incomprehensible are his Judgments and his Waves are past finding out For who hath known the Mind of the Lord Or who hath been his Counsellor Or who hath first given unto him and it shall be rendred unto him again For of him and by him and for him are all things To him be Glory for ever and ever Amen Errors Rejected The Orthodox Doctrine of Election and Reprobation having been Expounded the Synod Rejected their Errors CANON I. I. WHO teach that the Will of God to save them that shall believe and persevere in Faith and Obedience of Faith is the full and whole Decree of Election unto Salvation and that there is nothing else revealed in the Word of God concerning this Decree For these deceive the simple and do apparently contradict the Holy Scriptures which doth not only witness that God would save such as shall believe but also that from all Eternity he hath chosen some certain Persons to whom in his own time he will rather give Faith in Jesus Christ and perseverance than unto others As it is written John 17.16 I have manifested thy Name unto the Men whom thou hast given me And Acts 13.48 And all those believed who were ordained unto Eternal Life And Eph. 1.4 He hath chosen us before the foundation of the World that we might be Holy CANON II. Those who teach that Gods Election unto Eternal Life is of divers kinds the one general and Indefinite the other definite and particular and this again is either incomplete revocable not-peremptory but conditional or else complete unchangeable peremptory or absolute Item there is Election unto Faith and another unto Life and Salvation so that Election unto Justifying Faith may be without a peremptory Election unto Salvation For these are nothing else but the vain Inventions of brain-sick-Men forged without Scripture Light or Warrant and which corrupt the Sacred Doctrine of Divine Election and do dissolve asunder all the Links in that Golden Chain of our Salvation Rom. 8.29 And whom God hath predestinated them he also called and whom he called them also he justified and whom he justified them he also glorified CANON III. Those who teach that the good pleasure and determinate purpose of God whereof the Scripture maketh mention in the Doctrine of Election consisteth not in this that God hath chosen some certain Persons rather than others but in this that from out of all possible Conditions among which also are the works of the Law or from the Rank and Order of all things God hath chosen the Act of Faith though vile in it self and the imperfect Obedience of Faith for the condition of Salvation and that of his meer Grace he will accept and reckon it for perfect Obedience and judge it vvorthy the recompence of Eternal Life For by this pernicious Error the good Pleasure of God and the Merits of Our Lord Jesus Christ be all enervated and Men are turned avvay by unprofitable Questions from the true Doctrine of the Free Grace or God displayed in our Justification and the simplicity of the Scriptures And that Sentence of the Holy Apostle must be branded with falsity 2 Tim. 1.9 God hath called us with an Holy Calling not according to Works but according to his own determinate Purpose and Grace which was given us in Jesus Christ from the beginning of the World CANON IV. Those who teach that in Election unto Faith there is this Condition pre-required that Man do make a good and right use of Nature that he be an honest Man humble and disposed for Eternal Life as if Election did some way or other depend on these things For this Opinion is rank Pelagianisme and doth too overtly and boldly tax the Apostle of falsehood when as he saith Ephes 2.2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. We have all had heretofore our Conversions in the Lusts of the Flesh fulfilling the desires of the Flesh and of our Minds and were by Nature Children of Wrath as well as others But God who is Rich in Mercy by his great love wherewith he loved us even then when as we were dead in our sins hath quickned us together with Christ by whose Grace you are saved and he hath risen us up together with him and hath made us sit down together in heavenly places through Jesus Christ that so he might manifest in Ages to come the abundant Excellencies of the riches of his Grace by his loving kindness towards us in Jesus Christ For you are saved by grace through Faith and this not of your selves but the gift of God not of works least any one should boast or glory CANON V. Those who teach that incomplete and not-peremptory Election of particular Persons is done through foresight of their begun Faith Conversion Holyness and Piety or of its continuance for some time But that complete and peremptory Election is done from a foresight of their final perseverance in Faith Conversion Holyness and Piety and therein lieth that gratuitous and Evangelical Worthiness for vvhich he vvho is Elected is more Worthy than he vvho is not Elected and thus consequently Faith and the Obedience of Faith Holyness Piety and Perseverance are not the Fruits and Effects of Immutable Election unto Glory but Conditions and Causes vvithout vvhich there can be no Election vvhich Causes and Conditions are prae-required and foreseen in such a manner in those Persons vvho vvould be completely Elected as if they vvere already accomplished This is a Doctrine diametrically opposite unto Scripture vvhich in divers places inculcateth into our Ears and Hearts these and the like Sentences Rom. 9.12 Election is not of Works but of him that calleth Acts 13.48 All those vvho vvere ordained unto Eternal Life believed Ephes 1.4 He hath chosen us in him that vve might be Holy John 15.16 You have not chosen me but I have chosen you Rom. 11.6 And if it be by grace then it is no more of vvorks 1 John 4.10 In this is love not that vve have loved God but that he hath loved us and sent his Son into the VVorld that he might save us CANON VI. Those vvho teach that all Election unto Salvation is not unchangeable but that some of the Elect notvvithstanding all or any part of God's Decree may perish and that Eternally By vvhich gross Error they may make God changeable and overthrovv the Consolation of Believers vvhich is bottom'd and grounded upon the immoveable firmness of Gods Election and professedly contradict the Sacred Scriptures learning us that the Elect can never be seduced Matth. 24.24 And John 6.39 That Christ loseth not one of them vvho are given him by the Father And Rom. 8.29 Whom God hath predestinated them he called justified and vvill also glorifie CANON VII Those vvho teach that during this Life there proceedeth