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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

your spirits with just sorrow and griefe so you may be edified and comforted by his Repentance Amen A Formulary of Baptisme OR The manner of Baptizing those who from Paganisme Iudaisme and Mahumetisme are converted to the Christian faith as also of those Anabaptists who have not been Baptised before Drawne and Composed in the Nationall Synod of the Reformed Churches of France Assembled at Charenton in the yeare of our Lord 1644. Being the 26 of December Printed first in French by Samuel Petit c. in the yeare of our Lord 1645. and now faithfully Translated into English AFter that the Catechumen or party that is to bee Baptised hath been sufficiently Instructed and Catechised so that hee is able to give an account of his faith and that the Church by irreproveable witnesses is satisfied concerning both the integrity of his life and his Instruction he shall by the said Witnesses be presented to the whole Congregation to be Baptised in their presence And the Minister shall say unto him 1 Quest Doe you not ack●owledge that by nature you are a child of wrath worthy of death and eternall malediction Answ I doe 2 Quest Are you not sorry and grieved for all the sinnes you have committed since you were borne and doe you not promise that you will forbeare henceforth for ever Answ Yes 3 Quest Doe you not from your heart renounce to the seducements and wiles of the Divell and his Angells to all the Pomps and vanities of this world and to all the Affections and concupisence of the flesh Answ I doe If hee be a Pagan or Heathen the Minister shall say 4 Quest Doe you not perceive that there is but one God who hath created Heaven and Earth who upholdeth all things by his powerfull Word and in whom wee have our being live and move Answ I doe 5 Quest. Doe you not believe that this great God who hath created heaven and earth is one Essence distinct in three Persons of the same power and eternity the Father the Sonne begot of the Father from all eternity and the Holy Ghost eternally proceeding from the Father and the Sonne Answ I doe 6 Quest Doe you not beleeve that this great God who never left him selfe without witnesse did manifest himselfe unto men not onely by his Workes which from their first Creation doe incessantly declare his praise and glory but also by Revelation of his Counsell for the salvation of mankind contained in the holy Scripture commonly called the Old and New Testament Answer I doe 7 Quest Doe you not beleeve that all these holy Scriptures are by Inspiration of God and containe in them a perfect rule both of our beliefe and of our lives Answ I doe 8 Quest Doe you not ptotest that to the last breath of your life you will resist the Devill whom hitherto you have adored serving either Idolls made with hands or the Host of heaven or briefly those which by nature are not Gods Answ I doe 9 Quest Rehearse the summary of your faith Answ I beleeve in God the Father Almighty c. 10 Quest Doe you not beleeve that this good God who by the preaching of his Word doth call us all to life and salvation hath Instituted some Signes and Sacraments in his Church which seale and confirme the truth of the Covenant of grace which is proposed to us by the preaching of the Gospell Answ J doe 11 Quest How many Sacraments doe you beleeve there be in the Christian Church Answ Two to wit Baptisme and the Supper of the Lord. 12 Quest Doe you desire to be instructed concerning the nature and use of Baptisme for which you are a suiter unto the Church Answ I doe 13 Quest Our Saviour sa●ing to us that wee must bee borne againe shewe unto us what wretchednesse and misery wee are all borne in for if our nature must be renewed to have entrance into the Kingdome of heaven it is a signe that it is altogether perverse and cursed In that therefore hee doth admonish us to humble our selves and to be displeased in our selves and by that meanes he doth prepare us to desire and crave his grace by which all the perversnesse and cursednesse of our first nature may bee abolished for wee are not capable to receive it except wee be first emptied of all confidence of our owne vertue wisdome and justice unto a perfect condemnation of all that is in us Now when hee doth put us in mind of our misery hee doth likewise comfort us by his mercy promising to regenerate us by his holy Spirit unto newnesse of life which may be to us an entrance into his Kingdome This regeneration doth consist in two parts first we must renounce to our selves not following our owne reason pleasure and will but captivating our understanding and heart to the wisdome and justice of God mortifying all that is ours and of our flesh Then we must follow the light of God to obey submit to his good pleasure which he doth shew unto us in his Word and to which hee doth lead us by his Spirit The accomplishment both of the one and of the other is in our Saviour JESUS whose death and passion hath such vertue that partaking of it we are as it were buried to sinne to the end that our carnall concupiscence may be mortified in us In like manner by the vertue of his Resurrection wee rise unto newnesse of life which is from God in that his Spirit doth lead and governe us to produce in us such workes as may bee acceptable unto him Neverthelesse the first and principall point of our salvation is that by his mercy he doth forgive us all our sinnes not imputing them to us but blotting the memory of them that they may not bee reckoned unto us when we shall appeare before him to be judged All these graces are conferred upon us when he is pleased to incorporate us into his Church by Baptisme for by this Sacrament hee doth testifie unto us the remission of our sinnes and for this cause he hath instituted the Signe of Water to figure unto us that as by this Element all corporall filthinesse is cleansed so he will wash and purifie our soules that no further spot or staine may appeare Besides it doth represent unto us our renewing which as wee said before doth consist in the mortification of our flesh and that spirituall life which he doth produce in us So wee receive a double grace and benefit from G●d in Baptisme provided that wee doe not voyd the vertue of this Sacrament by our ingratitude first we have a certaine assurance that God will bee a propitious Father unto us not imputing to us our sinnes and offences Secondly that he will assist us by his holy Spirit that wee may be able to fight against the diuell sinne and the concupiscence of our flesh unto victory that we may live in the liberty of his kingdome which is a kingdome of Justice Since then these

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