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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

for a time and simple privation of the Lords Supper That there may be a right use of the one and of the other the Ministers and Elders in interpreting the words of excommunication and Suspension from the Lords Supper doe advise that no man ought to be deprived nor suspended from the Lords Supper by the private authority of the Pastour or of any other but onely of the Consistory to whose wisdome it shall bee left to take cognisance after that the offender hath first bin admonished for any fact which meriteth Suspension In this case he which shall have committed any offence shall for a time be deprived of the Supper of the Lord for to humble him and try his Repentance Howbeit the offence not being knowne but to a few men such a Suspension or the cause of it shall not bee declared to the people for feare of further defaming the oftendor by rendering his offence more notorious and scandalous then it is and it shall suffice in this ease to acknowledge his offence unto the Consistory that hee may be admitted to the supper of the Lord. But as for them which have been admonished divers times of their offences and yet shew themselves disobedient unto the Consistory as also they which shall have committed any great and enormous crimes which are punishable by the Magistrate and which may bring publike scandall unto the Church they shall be punished withall sort of Censures And if it happen that after long expectance and patience and many admonitions made by the Consistory and the forementioned proceedings kept and practised and all other endeavours of charity observed in the behalfe of the offendor if after all this he yet continue obstinate and impenitent then shall they proceed against him by publick admonitions and by the mouth of the Pastour in the name of the Church declaring his offence and protesting their endeavour of reclaiming him without any profiting therein exhorting the whole Church to pray unto God for him and essay by all meanes to lead him to the knowledge of his offence for to prevent his cutting off and Excommunication whereunto they may not proceed but with dolour and griefe of heart and of which the Pastour shall set forth the true and lawfull use from the word of God to the end that every man may bee admonished to keepe himselfe within the compasse of his duty towards God and his Neighbour and to make knowne also that this last remedy is practised in the behalfe of such an offender for the glory of God the honour and repose of his Church and his owne salvation the which publick admonitions and denuntiations they shall prosecute and continue three times on three severall Lords dayes In the first to spare in some sort the offendor he shall not be named because he is already knowne to the people but in the other he shall be named And if for all that he returne not but persevere in his hardnesse in the fourth Lords day he shall be signified and the Excommunication of such a personage shall be pronounced as a Rotten member cut off from the body of the Church by the Pastour in the authority of the word of God in the name and consent of the whole Church of the which Excommunication the tenour followeth Following the requisition made by the Province of Poictou the which was framed by the necessity of its practise in this corrupt age as also hath been more fully declared then it hath been in the book of Discipline MY Brethren behold here the fourth time that A. B. having committed of C. and having scandalized the Church of God and shewed himselfe impenitent and a contemner of all admonitions which have been divers times made unto him from the word of God hath been suspended from the Supper of the Lord the which suspension and the causes therof have bin fully made known unto you to the end that you joyn your prayers with ours that it would please God to soften the hardness of his heart and to touch him with repentance withdrawing him from the way of perdition But seeing after he hath been so long borne withall intreated and in a sort menaced and adjured to turne himselfe unto God hee persevers in his impenitency and with a hardened obstinacy rebels against God and tramples under his feet the Word and the order which hath been established in his Church glorifying himselfe in his sins and in a course that the Church hath a long time been troubled and the name of the Lord blasphemed Wee the ministers of the Gospell of the word of Jesus Christ whom God hath armed with spirituall weapons mighty through God to the pulling downe of strong holds casting downe every thing that exalts it selfe against him unto whom the eternall Sonne of God hath given power to bind and to loose on earth declaring that what they bind on earth shall be bound in heaven willing to purge the house of God and deliver the Church from Scandalls and in pronouncing Anathemaes against the wicked to glorifie the name of God In the name and in the Authority of Jesus Christ with the advise of the Pastours and Elders in the Colloque or Synod Assembled and of the Consistory of this Church of N. we have cut off and cutting off the said A.B. from the Communion of the Church we excommunicate him and expell him the society of the faithfull to the end that he be unto you as an Heathen and Publican and that he be unto all the true faithfull beleevers an Anathema and execration that his conversation bee esteemed contageous and that his example strike our spirits with horrour and cause us to tremble under the mighty hand of the living God Which sentence of Excommunication the Sonne of God will ratifie and will make efficacious untill the offendour confused and dejected before God give glory unto him by his conversion and being delivered from the chaines of Sathan which inthralls him he bewaile his sinne touched with repentance pray God well beloved that he have pitty on this poore sinner and that this horrible judgement the which with griefe great sorrow of heart we pronounce against him in the authority of the Sonne of God serve to humble him and to reduce his soule in the way of salvation from which he strayed and erred Amen Amen Cursed be every man that doth the worke of the Lord negligently Amen If there be any one that love●● not the Lord Jesus Christ let him bee Anathema Maranatha Amen yea Amen Moreover they shall use the suspension from the Sacraments of the Lords Supper to humble offenders and to touch them with a more lively sense of their offences This suspension nor the cause thereof nor the restitution of the offender shall be published unto the people unlesse in case they be hereticks despised of God rebells to the Consistories and traytours against the Church Besides they which shall be attainted and convinced of crimes worthy of corporall punishment and