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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

conform it self with the other Churches of this Kingdom unto that Canon of the Discipline viz. That Elders and Deacons shall be chosen by the Consistory and then presented unto the People XIV The Deputies in the last Synod of Paris acquainted this present Assembly that they had given order to our Brethren in the Church of Lions to Print the Book of Discipline XV. The Churches shall have notice given them that they do not admit unto any Ministerial Duties A certain Spaniard going by the Name of Anthony de la Rodit Bellariva till such time as he have first cleared himself of those Crimes for which he stands Impeached by the Church of Loudun XVI Whereas there is a very great difference in the Body of our Discipline which now passeth from hand to hand The Churches of Paris Orleans and Meaux were appointed diligently to revise and examine all those Canons that have been made in former Synods and to send Attested Copies of them unto all the Provinces XVII And the Churches of Paris Lion Orleans and others shall not for the future dispose of any Scholars and Students without their Consent who had sent to the Universities XVIII The Churches are advised to take heed of a certain Old Grave and Bald-headed Fellow going by the Names of Fontaires and Duzau of Valleyse in Languedoc who tho he was never Called or Ordained doth yet notwithstanding take upon him to exercise the Office of a Minister CHAP. IX A Resolution of several Cases of Conscience and of other Weighty Points of the Christian Reformed Religion by the R. Mr. John Calvin Pastor and Professor at Geneva THese Cases and their Solution were all annext unto the Canons of the National Synod of Vertueil in Augoumois held there the Seven first days of September 1567. 1. Quest Whether Children may lawfully detain and possess those Lands and Foundations which were given by their Parents for Singing of Masses Answ Altho those poor Founders as they be called in the Papacy were grosly cheated and abused yet inasmuch as these very Persons to whom those Goods and Lands once belonged did alienate them in a legal Manner Their Heirs and Successors are deprived of them and cannot pretend nor claim any Right unto them So that they must sit down patiently with the Loss unless that publick Authority should find out some Relief for them by a Reformation 2. Quest Whether a Man being forced to abandon his Native Country for Religion and Conscience may also lawfully forsake his Wife Answ The married Man would do much better to take his Wife with him if it be possible for him so to do rather than to live separate from her that so he may give a good Example unto others and avoid those Temptations unto which he is obnoxious as also that he may prevent very many Inconveniences which are likely in such cases to befal him And unless he be inforced to it by necessity he ought not to leave her By necessity I mean this when he cannot serve God with a safe Conscience But if it should so fall out that a Man cannot live as becometh a Christian altho his Wife will live at a distance from him yet is it lawful for him to go before her waiting for her to follow him and he is to sollicite her to come unto him even then when he is separated from her 3. Quest Whether a Father flying for Idolatry may leave his Children behind him Answ If a Father should leave his Children with this Condition That a Padagogue might if he would lead them unto Idolatry he would than be guilty of Sin against God For our Children are God's peculiar Treasure an holy and separate Seed for him and which must be kept with the greatest Care for God And altho he cannot always have his eye upon them yet 't is neither meet nor profitable that he should leave them in such a place from which he cannot recover them without a World of difficulty Yea did he conscientiously endeavour to get his Children with him it would be an effectual Means to draw his Unbelieving Wife after him 4. Quest Whether a Man may forsake his Country when he is not persecuted Answ If a Man should live among Idolaters unpolluted with their Abominations we would not condemn but praise him for his Constancy And in truth we cannot warrantably impose a Law upon him who would depart his Country as if it were unlawful for him so to do whether it proceed from his fear of what is likely to come to pass or upon any other account as suppose he distrusting his own weakness to stand out in a fiery Tryal or ardently seeking after the means of Grace and heavenly Knowledge should thereupon leave his Native Country such a Zeal as this cannot but be approved and applauded 5. Quest Whether it be our Duty to reprove those Sins and sinful Discourses we hear in wicked Company Answ There cannot be any stated Rule or Canon in this Case of reproving Errors or ungodly Talk but this that we should not dissemble nor conceal our dissent from them when as opportunity is offer'd us of reproving them For suppose we should be in some Company where they discourse wickedly we are not bound necessarily to reply upon them There is a time when the prudent Man may keep silence But in case we meet them privately and have no Witness we may do as Righteous Lot testify and express our Displeasure at their Sin and that we are unwillingly through Grief at Heart put upon the Reprehending of them But yet the best Course we could take would be this to observe and take by the' Forelock that Opportunity which God presents us of Opposing Sin of edifying our Company and hindring the Name of God from being blasphemed or that the weak and well-meaning Christian should be seduced through default of timely warning 6. Quest Whether we may correct or expell out of our Service an Infidel or Popish Servant Answ Forasmuch as the Holy Apostles of our Lord did not constrain the Brethren of their Times to drive away their Servants tho no better than Slaves when they would not imbrace the Christian Faith Therefore Masters should now adays observe these two Things First That Sith he is at liberty to give covenant-Covenant-Servants that he taken one but such as fear God and are of the Houshold of Faith if possibly they may be Good or that he take a most especial Care if that they be ignorant to instruct them and rid his hands of them Secondly That he do not suffer nor permit the Name of God to be blasphemed within his House and Family wherein God will be honoured But above all that he never prefer his own private Profit and Advantage above the Glory of God 7. Quest Whether a Reformed Christian Gentleman is bound in Conscience to hinder the Committing of Idolatry in the Chappel of his Castle Answ Forasmuch as we are permitted to suffer that which we cannot alter nor

reform provided that he give not any Sign or Token of his Approbation a Gentleman may not hinder People from entring into the Chappel of his Castle when as Idolatry is Established by Publick Authority 8. Quest Whether we may feign to perform the abusive Sinful Will of a Testator that so we may remove the Abuse Answ Altho there would be no Sin in it to frustrate the abusive Sinful Intention of the Testator by detaining the Revenues ordained by him for chanting Masses yet notwithstanding this feigning and dissembling will be always evil and must be condemned when a Man doth make Semblance of paying Service unto Devils 9. Quest Whether we may limit or keep back those Gifts and Alms bequeathed by a Testator Answ We are not forbidden to bequeath any part of our Estate unto pious Uses after our decease no more than to give it away during our Lives provided we do it not out of Ambition to get a Name and renown by so doing For it cannot be said that a Man is in quest of Glory when as he shall oblige his Heir to do well according to that Estate he shall leave him as he himself would have done if he had lived longer To alledge that he never used to do thus in his life time it is a Bar put upon a Man's Liberty that he should have no Power freely to dispose of his own Goods If the Heir be dissatisfied woe unto him 10. Quest Whether we are bound to approve of that Minister who hath been examined by Persons of Judgment and Experience Answ As a Church is free to prove and try the Life and Doctrine of a Minister before they accept and receive him So neither is there any Tie nor Obligation upon them to the contrary but that they may confide and acquiesce in those who are qualified to examine him and have had a long time knowledge of him and so can best judge who and what he is Otherwise the Faithful in Foreign parts would be destitute of all means whereby to be supplied with able Pastors if this Door were shut up 11. Quest Whether a Pastor may forsake his Church and a Church their Pastor Answ A Pastor may not of his own head forsake his Flock but in case they will not make use of him he is free and may warrantably leave them because ho cannot be a Pastor without a People nor hold and exercise his Office among them against their Wills and Consent by meer force Or in case the Church should not count his Labours among them profitable or if he should have a Call unto another Church which hath greater need of him he may with the general Consent of his Flock freely go thither and serve it And look as every Pastor is bound to serve the Church of God especially his own so likewise is One Church bound to help another And would to God this mutual Assistance were better practiced for then we should be more enlargedly useful and beneficial one unto another 12. Quest Whether a private Christian may exercise the Office of a Minister unto his own Family Answ A Godly Man being the Head and Master of his Family ought to serve guide and instruct it according to the Measure of his Gifts and Graces and may so far supply the Pastor's Office and perform his Duty in it as to teach sound Doctrine and inculcate wholsome Counsels to it But forasmuch as also Persons indifferently are not allowed to Preach the Word and Administer the Sacrament it is but just and reasonable that a Man should first try and examine himself and be well assured that he is called of God before he attempt or take upon him so great and weighty an Office Yet nevertheless every particular Family ought to be a Little Church of Christ 13. Quest Whether it be lawful to hold a Commander's Place in any of the Popish Guilds and Fraternities Answ The immoderate Desire of Gain from all Quarters hath caused a multitude of Cases to be started by Conscience As this in particular which now lieth before me Whether it be lawful to hold a Commander's Place or Office in any of the Popish Guilds and Fraternities To which I answer That because there is a Foundation of Masses annexed unto such Offices and Commanderships and for that such Places are not in the King's gift but settled upon the Members of such and such a Guild and Fraternity who are recommended to it and for that they do all take an Oath repugnant to the true Reformed Religion they cannot with a safe Conscience hold it For were there no other Evil in it yet there is this that Sith they do not apply the Profits and Emoluments of the Commandership unto those very uses to which they were designed they be but Thieves and Robbers 14. Quest Whether it be lawful to antedate a Contract Answ Provided there be no falshood in it contrary to the Agreement in the Policy or Instrument private Persons are no more forbidden to antidate a Deed of Sale in which there is no Fraud than to change their Names or to date a Letter from Paris which was written at Lions In case it should be alledged that this would be a cheating the King of his Gabel and Impost I answer this is nothing to the Purpose because the Question is not moved about the Detention of Tribute but only how to avoid without Fraud a most violent Extortion and tyrannical Pillage But in case an Oath should be tendered unto the Parties then I must tell them that the Name and Honour of God should be more precious to them than all the Riches of the World 15. Quest Whether it be lawful and when I may put out my Money unto Interest Answ I would never advise any Man to put out his Money to Interest if he can employ it any ways else Yet when as a Man 's whole Estate doth lie in ready Money he may very well contract with such and such Persons that upon such and such terms it may be lawful for him to receive benefit and profit thereby But he must be very careful that he do not let loose the Reins to demand and take excessive Gains as is the Custom and Practice of too too many nor should he grieve or grind the Face of that poor Man with whom he hath contracted nor endammage the publick Interest by his own private Benefit Wherefore upon the whole I dare not approve of any Interest till I do first know how and upon what Terms Articles and Conditions and with what Persons you do transact herein CHAP. X. Orders and Decrees concerning Marriages Made by the Authority of the National Synod of Vertueil held in the Year l567 But drawn up at the Desire of the Fathers in this Synod by the R. Mr. Calvin Minister of God's Holy Word Pastor and Professor in the Church and Vniversity of Geneva These Orders were tacked together with Mr. Calvin's Answer to the forementioned fifteen Cases of Conscience

Berauld had sufficient cause for his Exception against it and to appeal from them unto this Synod and therefore the Antient Order established in our Synods and Colloquies shall be observed according to the Discipline without any other particular Regulation concerning it that so all suspicion and occasion of differences in our Churches by such an innovation may be cut off and prevented And all Ministers are advised in such cases to manifest their Self-denial and how far they be estranged from Covetousness and that they do prefer the publick before their own private benefit and advantage 7. Monsieur Berauld appealing from the Decree of the Consistory of Montauban confirmed by the Synod of Higher Languedoc importing that Ministers had no power to call into the Consistory the Ministers of other Churches to consult together with them about Church-affairs without the previous advice and consent of the Consistory This Appeal is rejected and made void and this National Synod ratifieth the Decree of the Provincial Synod of the Higher Languedoc in what concerns Ordinary Consistories However it intends not by this act to abridge Ministers of their priviledge when they be desired to give some private advice consulting with such of their Brethren as they shall judge fit to call into the Consistory 8. Monsieur Paul de la Ville appealed from the Synod of Vivaretz for decreeing an Excommunication against him unless he did immediately withdraw his Son from out of the Jesuits Colledge in Tournon This Assembly approving the just severity of the Synod of Vivaretz against the said de la Ville doth expresly forbid him ever to send his Son back to Tournon and in case of his obedience unto this our Order that then he be restored unto his Office of Elder in the Church and that all censures denounc't against him shall cease and be disannulled 9. Master Lawrence Brunier and Mr. Simeon Codur formerly Ministers in the Church of Usez Appealed from the Sentence of the Synod of Lower Languedoc whereby the said Master Simeon Codur for the facts specified in the Decree of that Synod was suspended from the Sacred Ministry for the term of a full year which being expired he might officiate as Pastor in some other Church of any other Province by attestation and discharge had and obtained from that Synod And the said Master Lawrence Brunier is suspended the Sacred Ministry for three months time after which the Colloquy of Nismes is to provide a Church for him but out of the Colloquy of Usez Which appeal both the said Ministers Mr. Lawrence Brunier and Simeon Codur had once retracted and revoked but yet since have took up and again revived it Farther also there presented themselves as Parties to this Appeal the Lady Margarita de Brahier and Susanna de Sallette Wife of the said Master Lawrence Brunier complaining that the said Synod of Lower Languedoc had not took any the least care for the reparation of her honour wronged as she pretends by the said Codur This Assembly having read the acts of the said Synod of Lower Languedoc and the proceedings of Brunier and Codur one against the other and the accusations of the said Lady against Codur and having examin'd the said Codur upon all those Articles whereof he was accused by the said Mr. Lawrence Brunier and his Wife who pressed them home upon his Conscience as also that the said Codur did apply himself to both their Consciences charging them to give glory unto God by a free full and sincere confession of the Truth This Assembly did in the first place judge the Provincial Synod of Lower Languedoc worthy to be censured for their tumultuous and disorderly departure from the place of their meeting and for proceeding in this affair contrary to the Discipline and for producing before us Acts which were never signed by the Moderator and Scribe of their Synod as in course they should have been and for getting those subscriptions out of their Synodical Sessions And as for the said Codur although he cannot be fully and plainly convicted in every particular of the matters laid unto his charge yet nevertheless this Assembly judgeth that there is cause enough for confirming as it now doth confirm in every point and article the sentence of the said Synod of Lower Languedoc concerning the suspension of the said Codur from the Ministry and the excluding him from the Province of Lower Languedoc as also it doth confirm the suspension of Mr. Lawrence Brunier for three Months because of that excessive animosity manifested by him in his prosecution of the said Codur however it restores the said Brunier unto the Colloquy of Usez to be imployed by them immediately if they think meet But because of the great divisions which are in the Town of Usez the said Brunier shall not exercise his Ministry in it unless the next National Synod shall otherwise determine for him who may restore him if they please unto the Town and Church of Usez on their petition for him And that the honour of Mrs. Susan de Sallette Wife of the said Brunier may be repaired which was damnified by imprudent words uttered against her by the said Codur the said Codur is injoined to acknowledge his offence and the scandal given by him here before this whole Assembly and shall ask pardon of the said Brunier and shall further declare that he believeth the said Gentlewoman to be a person of great vertue and honour and that he is sorry to have spoken any thing prejudicial to it and that he hath scandalized the Church of God by it All which the said Codur shall not only protest in this Assembly but also in the Consistory of Usez where he shall give the same satisfaction unto the said Mistress Susan de Sallette begging her pardon in the presence of the Elders and Deacons of that Church and of the Lady Marguarita Brahier if she please to be there and of ten or twelve other persons such as the said Brunier and his Wife will choose And hereupon all Prosecutions at Law before the Magistrates both of the one and other side whether directly or indirectly had or done shall immediately and eternally cease And if either of them contradict this decree he is hereby declared totally deposed from the Holy Ministry And the said Master Lawrence Brunier and Simeon Codur acquiesced in this Ordinance and the said Codur having made his acknowledgment in the form prescribed him unto the said Master Lawrence Brunier and his Wife they were reconciled together and like loving Brethren did mutually give each other their hands And that Peace may be made in the Church of Usez this Assembly orders Messieurs Renaud Esperien Sohnius and Gigord to visit that Church and to dispose their minds unto it And that no new Controversies may hereafter arise upon the score of the Writings and Proceedings relating to this business they shall be all lodg'd in the hands of Monsieur Chamier 10. An Appeal was brought by the