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A85896	The generall and particular acts and articles of the late national synod of the reformed Churches of France, assembled by the permission of the King at Charenton neare Paris, beginning the 26th of December, 1644. Where by the present estate of those churches, as also their doctrine and discipline may be knowne. With divers other remarkable passages, and letters from the King and Q. Regent of France, to the said synod, and of the synod to their Majesties, and other great personages. Never before printed either in French or English, and now faithfully translated out of a written French copy. Whereunto is added a formulary of baptisme for those who from paganisme, Judaisme, and Mahumetisme, are converted to the Christian faith; as also of those Anabaptists who have not bin baptised before, composed in the nationall synod set forth at Charenton in the yeare 1645. and now faithfully Englished.	Eglises réformées de France. Synode national (1644-1645 : Charenton-le-Pont); Anne, Queen, consort of Louis XIII, King of France, 1601-1666.; France. Sovereign (1643-1715 : Louis XIV)	1646 (1646)	Wing G488; Thomason E361_5; ESTC R201205	74,805	110

into Idolatry Resp If the fault be fresh in memory and very late hee may not be chosen otherwise there is no doubt CHAP. III. Of Ancients and Deacons Article 1. IN places where the Order is not yet established the Elections as well of the Ancients as of the Deacons shall bee made by the common suffrages of the people and of the Pastours but where rhe order of the Discipline hath been already established it shall be in the power of the Consistory with the Pastours to choose the fittest and ablest men with earnest prayers and the nomination of them shall be made unto the Consistory with loud voyce and the charge of them which shall be chosen shall be made to the Consistory to the end they may know in what they are to be employed and if they consent they shall presently after be named to the people two severall Lords dayes to the end that the consent of the people may also be taken and if there be no opposition on the third Lords day they shall be received publikely they standing up before the Chaire with solemne prayers and so they shall be setled in their charges signing the Confession of Faith and the Ecclesiasticall Discipline but if there be opposition the cause shall be knowne and determined in the Consistory and if they cannot accord there all shall bee remitted to a Colloque or Provinciall Synod Article 2. They shall not choose hereafter so far forth as they may them for Ancients and Deacons in the Church which have Wives contrary to the true Religion following the saying of the Apostle Howbeit to the end the Church be not deprived of the labour of many good personages the which by reason of their forepassed ignorance have Wives of a contrary Religion they shall be tolerated onely for the necessity of time provided that they make their duty to appeare by indevouring to instruct their foresaid Wives and to solicite them to a conformity in the Church Article 3. The Office of Ancients is to wa●ch over the flocke with the Pastours to cause the people for to assemble themselves and that every man be found in the holy Congregation to make a report of scandalls and of faults to know and judge of matters with the Pastours and in generall to have care with them of all things which concerne the order entertainement and government of the Church so that in every Church they shall have a forme of their charge in writing according to the circumstance of place and time Article 4. The Office of the Deacons is to gather and distribute by the advise of the Consistory the moneys of the poore of the prisoners and the sicke to visite them and to take an especiall care of them Article 5. The Office of Deacons is not to preach the word of God and to administer the Sacraments notwithstanding in case of necessity the Consistory may choose certaine Ancients and Deacons to Catechise throughout Families also it is permitted unto the Ancient in the absence of the Pastour to say publike prayers on ordinary dayes when they shall be chosen thereunto by the Consistory so that they follow the forme which is prescribed in the Psalmes As for Deacons which have been accustomed to Catechise publikely in certaine Provinces The inconvenience heard and weighed which hath happened and may happen hereafter the Churches are exhorted where that custome hath not been received to abstaine from it and others which have used it to leave it and to cause the said Deacons if they be found capable to range themselves into the Ministery of the Gospell so soon as possible they may Article 6. The Ancients and Deacons may very well assist the Propositions of the word of God but the decision of the Doctrine is principally referred unto the Ministers Pastours and Doctours in Divinity which are duly called to their charge Article 7. The Deacons nor the Ancients likewise may not pretend primacy or domination the one over the other bee it in nomination to the people or in place or in order to give their advise and other things depending on their charges Article 8. The office of Ancients and Deacons as it is used among us at this day is not perpetuall howbeit for that the change of them may bring detriment to the Church they are exhorted to continue their charge so long as they may and if they depart from it they shall not do it without leave of their Church Article 9. The Ancients and Deacons shall be deposed of their charges for the same causes that the Ministers of the word of God may be according to their quality Article 10. The restitution of Ancients and Deacons deposed shall bee after the same manner as the Restitution of Pastours CHAP. IIII. Of Deacons Article 1. THe Moneys of the poore shal● not bee disposed of but by the Deacons with the advise and consent of the Consistory Article 2. In ordinary distributions it is required that one or two Ministers be present above all in the rendring of Accounts Article 3. The people shall have notice given and be advertised of the making up the Accounts to the end that they may if they please be present aswell for the discharge of them which mannage the Accounts as to let every man know the neces●ity of the Churches and of the poore Article 4. To hinder disorder the Assembly adviseth that every Church nourish their owne poore c. CHAP. V. Of Consistories Article 1. EVery Church shall have a Consistory composed of persons which shall have the government thereof to wit of Pastours and Ancients and the Pastours ought to praesede in this company as likewise in all Ecclesiasticall Assemblies Article 2. As for Deacons seeing the Church by the necessity of the time have employed them hitherunto prosperously in the Government of the Church as also exercising the Charge of Ancients the which hereafter shall be so chosen and continued they shall have the government of the Church with the Pastours and Ancients and for that cause they shall accompany them ordinarily in the Consistory yea in the Colloques and Synods if they bee sent thither by the Consistories Article 3. In places where the exercise of the Religion is not already established the faithfull shall be exhorted by the Colloques to have Ancients and Deacons and to follow the Discipline of the Church and shall be advised in the said Colloques into what Church they ought to range themselves for their conveniency from whence they may not depart without communicating it unto the said Colloques Article 4. Every Church shall have one onely consistory and it shall not be permitted to establish any other Counsell for any affaires of the Church and if there be found any other Counsell separated from that of the Consistory it shall be speedily removed Howbeit the Consistory may call unto them sometimes such of the Church as they shall thinke good when any affaire shall require it Article 5. It resteth in the

THE GENERALL And Particular ACTS and ARTICLES Of the Late NATIONAL SYNOD Of the Reformed Churches of France Assembled by the Permission of the King at Charenton neare Paris beginning the 26th of December 1644. Whereby the present estate of those Churches as also their Doctrine and Discipline may be knowne With divers other Remarkable Passages and Letters from the King and Q. Regent of France to the said Synod and of the Synod to their Majesties and other great Personages Never before printed either in French or English and now faithfully translated out of a written French Copy Whereunto is Added a formulary of Baptisme for those who from Paganisme Judaisme and Mahumetisme are converted to the Christian Faith As also of those Anabaptists who have not bin Baptised before composed in the Nationall Synod set forth at Charenton in the yeare 1645. and now faithfully Englished LONDON Printed by T. W. for G. Emerson and are to be sold at the Swan in little Britaine and at the blacke Beare in Pater-noster Row 1646. The Stationer to the Reader THe Church hath been under a threefold oppression first violent under persecuting Emperours 2. Fraudulent under insinuating Hereticks 3. Violent and fraudulent both under the Romish Antichrist every one worse then other This last the most pernicious and perillous as in whom the force and fraude of both the former were combined in one The first was grievous to the body but could not touch the soule the second destroyed the soule though it spared the body the third spared neither but by Impostures lies and a thousand falshoods entangled the soule in damnable errours and upon the bodies of Christians what savage cruelties they have exercised is as incredible to be beleeved as impossible to be exprest They have persecuted poore Christians with fire and water with fire to consume their bodies and bones to ashes With water to consume their very ashes if it were possible to nothing Of this the Church of France hath had most sad and long experience For the persecutions of the Protestants in France How many Edicts Proscriptions Proclamations for their utter destruction are still witnesses thereof What combination of Princes what Armies raised Townes burnt who le Countries depopulated Witnesse that of Merindol and Chabriers private murders publick Massacres as that of Paris wherein were most bloudily cut off very many thousands what cruelties have been exercised for number incredible for fury unsufferable had they not been inspired and supported by the divine power What lingring torments were invented to make them dye piecemeale ut sentiant se mori among many other one is most memorable of a Frier that tooke a poore Protestant filled his bootes full of grease set him upon a forme with his legs hanging over a soft fire and so broyled him to death with many more too tedious to mention here And yet for all these cruell sufferings they have kept the faith and obtained a good report they have been bettered by it like gold that comes the purer out of the fire they have been the cleaner for winnowing the clearer for scowring Tortores nisi habeat Ecclesia non haberet fidos Doctores And certainly this Church though it hath been under many cloudes yet such lights have still broke out in it that the world hath not seene the like And as God hath still moved the hearts of their Princes to give them some intermission of suffering so now a permission of doing even to assemble at Charenton for setling of that Religion whereof their chiefe Princes are enemies If God will restore his Temple Cyrus a heathen King shall grant a Commission for building of it In this Synod there are many things remarkable first the goodnesse of God in moving the hearts of the King and Queen Regent towards them 2. Their loyalty againe in their humble submission to their Soveraigne Princes their obedience to them and praiers for them though of a contrary Religion In the Acts of this Synod observe first their wisdome and moderation in Discipline 2. Their piety and purity in Doctrine but our approbation can adde nothing to their worth If any shall question what need of such frequent Assemblies as many there be that move such questions let him heare what Saint Paul sayes It is necessary that heresies be amongst us Therefore as necessary are often Assemblies of Pastours of the Church Necessitatem hanc furor haereticus imponit and this made the Apostles themselves call a Synod Acts 15. It seemes two dangerous Sects were now like to trouble that Church against whom care is taken in this Synod viz. the Anabaptist and the Independent The first the most pestilent sect that sprang up of late times and could never catch many Disciples in a cleare water did not the latter trouble these streams But the reverend Pastours have put in sufficient caution against them both and God grant their neighbours may follow their worthy president Concerning differencies about matters of indifferency the most antient and true bond of unity is not one discipline one ceremony one policy but one God one Faith one Baptisme and so one Church Una erit consortio aeternitatis and ad colendum unum Deum tota est instituta God grant one thing more sit una vinculo charitatis And that we may all keepe the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace In the name of God Acts of the Nationall Synod of the Reformed Churches of France assembled by the Permission of the King at Charenton neare Paris the 26th of December and dayes following 1644. AFter the opening of the Assembly performed by a Prayer pronounced by Sieur Drelincourt Pastour of the Church of Paris Monsieur the Marquess of Cleremont deputed Generall exhibited the Breuets dispatched by the Commandement of the King for the calling togethe● of them the tenour whereof followeth This day being the twelfth of the Moneth of February 1644. the King being at Paris upon the most humble Petition made unto him by his Subjects of the Pretended reformed Religion to permit them the Convocation and Assembly of a Nationall Synod for that there hath bin none since that of Alenzou in the year 1637 His Majesty with the advise of the Queen Regent his most honoured Lady Mother desiring to gratifie and favourably to treate his said Subjects hath permitted them and doth permit them the calling together of a Nationall Synod in the moneth of December next at Charenton with charge that therein they treate onely of such affaires as are permitted them by their Edicts and that the Commissary appointed by his Majestie shall assist in the said Synod as hath been accustomed In witnesse whereof his Majestie hath commanded mee to expedite this present Declaration which he hath signed with his own hand LOUIS There appeared in the said Assembly with their Letters of trust which were read by Sieur le Cog Ancient of the Church of Paris assisting at the Table with Sieur Calliart Ancient chosen to