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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

natural Obligations of Loyal Subjects of truly Godly Christians we may have these also superadded of Servants loaden and enriched with your Royal Favours and Benefits and who desire only to enjoy our Lives that we may spend them in most ardent Prayers for the preservation of the Sacred Person of our King the dear Son of your Majesty a King obtain'd of God by the common united Supplications of all France that the Divine Blessing may be upon his blooming Youth that his Scepter may be established which is now supported by your Majesty's Hands to the perpetual Glory of your Majesty We being for ever From Charenton January 26th 1645. Madam Of Your Sacred Majesty The most Humble the most Faithful and most Obedient Subjects and Servants the Pastors and Elders assembled in the National Synod at Charenton and in the Name of them all Garrissoles Moderator Basnage Assessor Scribes Blondel Le Coq CHAP. VI. 18. THE Confession of Faith of the Reformed Churches of this Kingdom was read and Signed by all the Deputies and they did all of them unanimously for themselves and for their Provinces make this Solemn Protestation that they would immovably persist to their last Gasp in the Profession of it 19. Observations upon Reading of the Church-Discipline ARTICLE 1. THE strict Observation of the Thirteenth Canon in the First Chapter of our Discipline concerning the Residence of Pastors in their Churches is recommended unto all the Provinces who shall mutually inspect one the other and shall be responsible respectively for their Obedience unto this Order in the next National Synod Article 2. For the better Understanding of the Ninth Canon in the Second Chapter of our Discipline and the Second Observation of the Synod of Alez on the immediate foregoing Synod of Vitre That when a Church is served by several Pastors and an Appeal shall be made from One of them this Business shall be decided by his Colleagues in conjunction with the Consistory and in such Churches where there is but one Pastor only a Neighbour Minister shall be intreated to come unto that Consistory to consult about the Appeal from him and to give Judgment in that case and till it be Pronounced the Appellant shall abstain from Communion at the Lord's Table Article 3. The Tenth Canon of the 13th Chapter of our Discipline shall be understood in this Sense That no Man may Marry the Mother of his Deceased Spouse unless the Civil Magistrate shall Authorize it by his own Ordinance which shall be expected both by the Pastor and the Parties contracting Marriage Article 4. The Twelfth Canon shall be couched in these Words That however Civility and Decency may oppose a Mans Marriage with the Widow of his Wives Brother yet in case the Civil Magistrate will authorize the Contract our Churches shall make no difficulty at all to Bless it Article 5. In ratifying the Canons of the National Synods of Gergeau Gap and the Third held at Rochel concerning Proposans who presume to get into the pulpits and from thence to hold forth their Propositions which can be none other than an Authoritative Preaching unto the People especially if it be on the usual Days and Hours of their Publick Meetings this Assemby at the Request of the Province of Xaintonge doth forbid all Pastors and Consistories to suffer this Practice to creep into any of their Churches nor shall they of their own Heads introduce it Article 6. By reason of that defect which occurs in some Letters of Commission from the Provinces unto their Deputies it is now Decreed That the Proper Names and Surnames of their respective Deputies shall be inserted in them Article 7. The Province of Provence is admonished to cause the Letters of Commission given unto their Deputies to be signed in their Provincial Synod by the Moderator and Scribe that it may be known who they be that are chosen by them and they shall also insert into them the Clause of Submission unto the authority of the National Synods even as it is expressed in that particular Canon of our Discipline relating to it Article 8. The Province of Britain demanding by their Deputies whether Pastors may be permitted to Bless the Marriages of Couzen Cermans before they have obtained his Majesties Dispensation This Synod doth most strictly forbid any one of our Ministers to attempt such a matter because the very contrary is expresly injoyned us in those particular Articles which explain the Edict of Nantes See Art 41. Article 9. Whereas the same Province demanded that this Assembly would frame a particular form for Baptizing of Adult Persons which are Converted from Paganism Mahometism and Judaism unto the Christian Religion It was thereupon Ordered that this ensuing Form should be particularly used on those Occasions when as God shall be graciously pleased to make any Additions unto his Church of such Converts CHAP. IX The Form and Manner of Baptizing Pagans Jews Mahometans and Anabaptists Converted to the Christian Faith Composed by the National Synod of the Reformed Churches of France Assembled at Charenton in the Year 1645. 10. THE Catechumen having been sufficiently instructed in the Christian Religion and able to give an Account of his Faith and Hope in God and the Lord Jesus to the good Contentment and Satisfaction of the Church and they being very well satisfied of the Purity and Integrity of his Life and Conversation by Credible Witnesses he shall by those self-same Witnesses be presented publickly to the whole Assembly of the Faithful to be Baptized and the Minister before all the Congregation shall thus bespeak him Quest 1. Do you not acknowledge your self by Nature to be a Child of Wrath worthy of Death and Everlasting Malediction Answ Yes Quest 2. Are you not Sorry and Displeased for all the Sins of which you are Guilty ever since you were Born and do you not promise that you will forsake them for ever more Answ Yes Quest 3. Do you not from your very Heart renounce all intermedling with the Temptations and Seducements of the Devil and of his Angels all the Pomps and Vanities of this present World and all the Affections and Concupiscences of the Flesh Answ Yes If he be a Pagan the Minister shall thus bespeak him Quest 4. Do not you believe that there is but one God only the Creator of Heaven and Earth who by the Word of his Power sustaineth all things and in whom we Live Move and have our Being Answ Yes After this they shall proceed unto the next Question which shall be common to them all And here the Reader must be admonished that all those Questions which are in the Small Roman Character are to be propounded to all the Chatechumens indifferently but those in the Italian Character do either belong distinctly and severally to the Jews or Pagans to the Mahometans or Anabaptists according as their respective Titles do demonstrate And then they return unto their General Questions in the Lesser Character which are to be

of these Providences And the Churches shall be advised to celebrate the Fast as much as possible they can unanimously at the same time provided they have conveniency of times and places for it CAN. IV. Whereas divers Churches have been accustomed to use publick Prayers on some particular day they may if they like it retain this their practice which for many years they have so happily observed and others also may conform to it according to those means which God may graciously afford them and which their edification may require And all Pastors in the careful and faithful discharge of the duties of their Function shall by their most serious Remonstrances and Exhortations remove that contempt of which too many are guilty who disdain to frequent Sermons and neglect that Ordinance of Family-Prayers which ought daily to be performed in private Houses by the respective Heads of Houses with their Families and Domesticks And all Churches in which over and besides Preaching of God's holy Word there hath been usually performed Morning and Evening Prayers on those days in which they had Sermons or in the Evenings of every day are exhorted to conform herein unto those Churches which have no such Custom that so Superstition may be nipt in the bud and that common carelesness and notorious neglect of Sermons and Family Prayers may be quite banished Because the usage of common publick Prayers should only be reserved for times of distress and affliction as the general publick Fast is an Ordinance only to be used upon extraordinary occasions and therefore ought not to be brought into ordinary common practice For which causes those of our people who have had this Custom shall be advertised by their Pastors to lay them down quietly that no scandal may be taken at them And all Heads of Families shall be carefully admonished to pray ordinarily twice a day in the Morning and Evening with their Housholds N.B. That this part of the Canon which is in a different Character from the former is not to be found in my Copies and Editions of 1653 1666 and 1676. But it is in express words in the Editions of Paris and Quevilly in the Year 1663. What were the grounds of the omission I know not guess I do Those of Geneva might not have a perfect Copy of the Synodical Acts and so Printed it according to what they had The Reverend Pastors of Paris and Rouen were obliged at least their Consistories to oversee all the Impressions and Editions of the Confession and Discipline and they having in their Archives the best and most authentick Acts of their National Synods might therefore see that this Canon should be Printed in its fullest and most comprehensive expressions Sure I am this Canon was made and ratified in the Synod of St. Foy 1578. Canon 12. and in the Synod of Montpellier 1598. Canon the 18th of General Matters and in the Synod of Tonneins 1614. Canon the 4th of General Matters CAN. V. At Funerals there shall be neither Prayers nor Sermons nor any dole of publick Alms that so all Superstitions and other inconveniences may be avoided and those who attend the dead Corps unto its Sepulchre shall be exhorted to behave themselves modestly whilest they follow it meditating according to the object presented to them upon the miseries and brevity of this Life and the hopes of one more happy in the World to come CAN. VI. Forasmuch as Mourning consisteth not in habits but in heart the Godly shall be admonished to demean themselves with a modest decency and to reject all Ambition Hypocrisy Vanity and Superstition CHAP. XI Of Baptism CANON I. BAptism administred by an Unordained Person is wholly void and null CAN. II. A Doctor in a Church may not preach nor administer the Sacraments unless that he be at the same time both Doctor and Minister CAN. III. A Jew or Pagan of what age soever he be shall not be baptized till he have been first instructed in the Christian Faith and that he give evident proof thereof by his Confession N.B. You may see the Form of Baptizing Jews and Infidels Chap. XI Of Baptism in the Acts and Canons of the National Synod of Charenton in the Year 1644. where it is at large inserted and I must crave my Readers Pardon for not transcribing it CAN. IV. Children both whose Parents are Members of the Church of Rome and those of Excommunicated Persons shall not be baptized in our Reformed Churches although they were presented by Godly Sureties unless the Father or Mother when there is no Father shall consent and require it and shall have resigned up their Authority unto the Sureties by giving and granting them their right of Education with Promise of suffering their Children to be educated and instructed in the true Religion CAN. V. The Children also of Sarazins and Gipsies may be admitted unto Baptism in our Reformed Churches upon those conditions before mentioned provided that there be not any presumption of their having been already baptized and the Sureties being first seriously admonished to consider how they can acquit themselves of their obligation and promise made unto the Church and moreover that those very Sureties will undertake for the Religious Education and instruction of those Children CAN. VI. No Baptism shall be administred but in Church-Assemblies or where there is a formed publick Church But where there is no publick Church and the Parents through infirmity are afraid to carry them unto publick Baptism in the Congregation Ministers shall consult how far in prudence they ought to yield unto them Yet nevertheless there shall be some face of a Church and both Exhortation and Prayer but if there be no Church and a Congregation cannot be assembled the Minister shall not make any difficulty to baptise the Infants of believing Parents tendered to him with Exhortation and Prayer CAN. VII Forasmuch as we have no Commandment from the Lord to take God-Fathers or God-Mothers who may present our Children unto Baptism there cannot be any particular Canon made which shall bind Persons to do it But sith it is a very ancient Custom and introduced for a good end to wit to testify the Sureties Faith and the Baptism of the Infant and also for that they charge themselves with the care of educating the Child in case it should be deprived of its Parents by death and for that it doth maintain a sweet Communion among the Faithful by a Conjunction of Friendship they who will not observe it but will by themselves present their own Children shall be earnestly intreated not to be Contentious but to conform unto the antient and accustomed Order it being very good and profitable N.B. The Clause inserted in the middle of this Canon is in my two best Editions of Paris and Rouen though it be left out in the three others and therefore I have caused it to be put into another Character CAN. VIII Women shall not be admitted to present Children unto Baptism unless

l● Fitte Solon It was now decreed that in case there be any M●●ies in the Hands of the Lord du Candal that then the said Minister● Chamier and de la Fitte Solon shall be payed the Sums before any other Person whatsoever 31. This Assembly having an intire confidence in the Consistory of the Church of Paris that they will appoint Persons well qualified to receive and manage the Monies which were formerly intrusted with them and for which they have a new Commission given them and that they will use herein as great circumspection as might be required from Persons of their Reputation for Candor Prudence and Godliness and that they will be as careful in this affair as if it were their own particular concern declareth that it s none of its intention● that the said Consistory should be Sureties and responsible for their solvability who are or shall be appointed by them to this effect And this Declaration shall hold good for all other Consistories that have the like Commissions CHAP. XII Of Universities 1. THE Provincial Deputies of Xaintonge moved that in every Province there might be Two Persons ordred to prepare and fit themselves for the Profession of Divinity and that our University Councils might be obliged to pitch upon one of them to fill up the vacant Chairs of Divinity But this Assembly did not judge meet to make any Alteration in the former Canons which left the extraordinary Councils of our Universities at liberty to chuse the Professors of Divinity without restraining them to this or that designed Minister and therefore they should procure and settle in such important Charges such Persons as they were directed to by the Canons of our National Synods and in particular by those of Alez Charenion and Al●●son 2. All the Deputies of our Provinces with one common consent complaining of the great Corruptions crept in among the Scholars in our Universities especially among the Students in Divinity of their wearing long Hair Cloaths after the new fangled Fashions of the World with wide floating Sleeves Gloves stuft with Silk and Ribbans that they frequented Taverns haunted the Company of Women walk'd abroad with their Swords that their Style savour'd more of the Romance than of God's Holy Word and many other Vanities and Excesses of this Nature The Assembly touched with a most sensible grief for these great Disorders and zealously concerned for the House of God doth most earnestly exhort the Professors and all other Governors in our Universities as also the Consistories of those Churches in which they are to exert all their care power and authority for the suppression of these Abuses which redound to the disgrace of our Religion and give great Scandal unto Persons fearing God and open the Flood Gates to a deluge of Prophaness to break in upon the Sanctuary And farther it injoyneth them to suspend the Refractory from the Lord's Table and to blot their Names out of the Matricular Book of Students and to deprive Proposans of all hopes of ever being admitted to the Ministerial Office And all Scholars are most straitly injoyned and most especially Students in Divinity to refrain from all those Abuses before-mentioned and to keep themselves at the greatest distance from those things which are contrary to Modesty and true Sanctity which Vertues should shine forth conspicuously in their Lives whom God calleth to be Pastors in the Church of Christ And that there may be no sinister Opinions conceived of them they be commanded to perfume the House of God betimes with the sweet Odours of an early Religious Conversation every way becoming that Sacred Employment whereunto they be designed upon pain of Exemplary Punishments for their Rebellion Moreover this Assembly Ordaineth that those Provincial Synods to whose care and charge our Universities are intrusted and in which they be erected shall depute every Year some Pastors to inspect and visit them and to take notice what progress is made by our Scholars in their Studies of Philosophy and Divinity and by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ and of this Assembly to redress wha●ever Disorders shall be particularly notified to or observed by them And to this end those Visitors Commissionated by this Assembly shall as soon as possible they can go and visit them to wit the Sieurs Gitton and de Bourdieu Pastors and des Champs an Elder shall visit that of Saumur the Sieurs Chamier and Vegnier Pastors de Pontperdu and Maisonnet Elders shall visit that of Montauban the Sieurs de Boudan and de Messannes Pastors and the Sieurs de St. John Gardonongues and de Pontperdu Elders shall visit that of Nismes and the Sieurs Homel and January Pastors with the Sieurs de Mirabel and Baruel Elders shall visit that of Die And these Visitors shall give notice unto all Students in Divinity that they read the Scriptures publickly in the Desk before Sermons in all our Church-Meetings 3. The Deputies of several Provinces complained of the great Rates that Scholars paid for their Diet Lodging and Washing in the Towns of our Universities and that Professors and Regents did demand of them over and above their Sallaries for Lectures and Tuition This Assembly Ordained that the Commissioners appointed about the affairs of the Church of Saumur should carefully confer with the Directors of that University and the Consistory there concerning this matter and to take the most convenient course they could for the moderating of Expences And all the Provinces are advised to send unto those Directors of that University their Opinions about it that so the grievances complained of may be redressed And the Directors of that University are herein to use their utmost care and diligence 4. That custom practised in the University of Die of inspecting the Manners and Education of their Scholars in the true Religion and of examining their proficiency in Human Learning and of giving them a publick Prize is highly applauded and this Assembly exhorteth all other Colledges and Universities of our Communion to imitate and follow this their most commendable Example 5. The Sieurs Damiere Cregut Verdier and Martel Pastors having been Elected by the University Councils of Nismes Die and Montauban and afterward established in the Professors Office of Divinity in those Universities this Assembly ratifieth those Acts and confirmeth them in their respective Chairs And ordereth that the Canons of our Discipline and National Synods shall be most Religiously observed about the Examining of them who shall be chosen to the Profession of Divinity 6. The Provincial Deputies of Sevennes moved that the Province of Lower Languedoc might be obliged to pay Four Hundred Livers a Year towards the Maintenance of the Colledge of Anduse from the time of that Treaty held with them in the Conference at Quissac in the Year One Thousand Six Hundred Forty and Five and they offered in case they should so do that they would deduct from what they had already paid in Moreover that this Assembly would be

National Synod belongeth according to the Canons of our Discipline unto the Province of Power Languedoc And this Assembly Ordaineth that with the good Pleasure of his Majesty it shall he convoked about Three Years hence in that Order prescribed by our Discipline and the Deputies shall meet from all the Provinces of this Kingdom at the City of Nismes CHAP. XIX An Act for the validity of all Acts which shall be Delivered and Signed IT is Decreed That as great Credit shall be given to those Acts which are signed either by the Moderator or Assessor or one of the Scribes of this Assembly as if they had been Signed and Subscribed by the Moderator Assessor both the Scribes and all the Deputies conjoyntly The Sieurs Dize Pastor of the Church at Grenoble and De Foissac Elder in the Church of Usez are nominated to wait upon his Majesty and to deliver the most humble Thanks of this Assembly to him together with the Bill of our just Grievances and Petitions and to assure his Majesty that we shall continue in his Majesty's Service with an untainted and inviolable Fidelity Done and Decreed at Loudun this Tenth Day of January One Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty Signed in the Original by Daille Moderator J. M. D'Angle Assessor Scribes J. De Brissac Pastor Loride des Galinieres CHAP. XX. Commissions Executed WHen as the National Synod held at Loudun November 10 1659 was broken up the Sieurs Guitton and du Bourdieu went unto Sanmur according as they were ordered add Monsieur Guitton made this Speech in the University Messieurs THE National Synod which is now ended at Loudun being Informed by the Complaints of divers Provinces that for a long time together very many and great Disorders have crowded in among our Students of Divinity and that to the great scandal of all Godly Persons there is a visible defect of Modesty and Christian Integrity in their Deportments that Venerable Assembly judged that in prudence it was bound to exert its Authority for the retrenching and removal of them And having made a Canon which we shall read unto you immediately it did straitly charge us to assemble your whole Body before the Senate of this University that we might re-inforce it upon your Consciences by our oral Exhortations and Remonstrances Give Sirs your Attention unto the Synodical Decree The Deputies of all our Provinces complaining with one common Voice of the great Corruptions crept in among Scholars in our Universities especially among Students in Divinity of their wearing Long Hair of their Cloaths after the new fangled Fashions of the World of their wide Floating Sleeves Gloves stuft with Silk and Ribbans that they frequented Taverns haunted the Company of Women walk'd Abroad with their Swords that their Style savour'd more of the Romance than of God's Holy Word and many other Vanities and Excesses of this Nature The Assembly touched with a most sensible grief for these great Disorders and being zealously concerned for the House of God doth most earnestly exhort the Professors and all other Governors in our Universities as also the Consistories of those Churches in which they are to exert all their Care Power and Authority for the suppression of these Abuses which redound to the disgrace of our Religion and give great Scandal unto Persons truly fearing God and open the Flood-Gates to a deluge of Prophaneness to break in upon the Sanctuary And farther it enjoyneth them to suspend the Refractory from the Lords Table and to blot their Names out of the Matricular Book of Students and to deprive Proposans of all hopes of ever being admitted into the Ministerial Office And all Scholars are most straitly enjoyned and most especially Students in Divinity to refrain all those Abuses before-mentioned and to keep themselves at the greatest distance from such things as are contrary to Christian Modesty and true Sanctity which Vertues should shine forth most conspicuously in their Lives whom God is calling to be Pastors in the Church of Christ And that there may be no sinister Opinions conceived of them they be commanded to perfume the House of God betimes with the sweet Odours of an Early Religious Conversation every way becoming that Sacred Employment whereunto they be designed on pain of Exemplary Punishment in case of Rebellion Moreover this Assembly Ordaineth that those Provincial Synods to whose care and charge our Universities are intrusted and in which they be erected shall depute every Year some Pastors to inspect and visit them and take notice of the Progress made by our Scholars in their Studies of Philosophy and Divinity and by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ and of this Assembly to redress whatever Disorders shall be particularly notified to or observed by them And to this end those Visitors commissionated by this Assembly shall as soon as possible go and visit them to wit the Sieurs Guitton and de Bourdieu Pastors and Monsieur Des Champs an Elder shall visit the University of Saumur The Sieurs Chamier and Vignier Pastors de Pontperdu and Maisonnet Elders shall visit that of Montauban the Sieurs de Boudan and de Mesjannes Pastors and the Sieurs de St. John de Gardonnengues and de Pontperdu Elders shall visit that of Nismes and the Sieurs Homel and January Pastors with the Sieurs de Mirabel and Baruel Elders shall visit that of Die And these Visitors shall give notice unto all Students in Divinity that they read the Scriptures publickly in the Desk before Sermons in all our Church-meetings You have heard Sirs the true and just cause of all those Complaints which are form'd against you in the several Provinces of this Kingdom You have heard what the Synod hath declared on this occasion and the Punishments it hath decreed against the Transgressors I beseech you to make good use of this important Admonition sent you by an Assembly whose Canons and Orders should be had in singular Veneration by you Reflect seriously upon your Selves and consider a while unto how great a work you be destinated and weigh well those means by which you may accomplish as well as desire it and I am confident you will then have no need of any Teachers and you your selves will judge what is best befitting your Profession and overlooking the punishments threatned which belongs unto Servile Spirits and wholly inslav'd to their own Vanity you will devote your Selves to the Love and Practice of Vertue for those very Reasons upon which it is recommended to you You have consecrated your Labours your Time your whole Man unto the Service of the Sovereign Monarch of the whole World of that Lord who is adored by all the Angels Your own Consciences Sirs as well as mine must needs tell you you cannot bring with you too much Humility nor too much Self-abasement nor too much Self-annihilation nor too much Symplicity and Syncerity when you come into his Presence whose Eyes are as a Flaming Fire and who searcheth your Hearts and

trieth your Reins and offer your selves to be inrol'd in the number of his Menial Servants and Gospel-Ministers Our great Lord Redeemer neither loveth the World nor the things of the World The design and end of his Coelestial Empire is to make all Men new Creatures and he serves himself of the Doctrin of the Cross that thereby be may Crucifie the World in you and you unto the World Sirs your own Consciences must needs reproach you that it is an affront unto the pure Eyes of his Glory that it saddens the Spirit of his Holiness that it must needs irritate his indignation when the Sons of the Prophets shall present themselves before him in the garb and habit of the World stuffed up and big-swoln with Vanities Pride and Indecencies and attended with its wonted Excuses Artifices and Deportments The Mysteries which our most blessed Saviour delivers unto his Servants that they may dispense them unto his People retain nothing of Earth savour nothing of this lower World they are all Divine and Heavenly And you cannot but acknowledge that it would be a darkning of their Lustre a Profanation of their Glory to manage them with impure Hands to vend and expose them in a strange Language and to search rather from the Wisdom of the World a Buttress to support their Authority than from the Eternal Verities of God's Wisdom and from the Lights of the Sacred Scriptures If none but the Spirit of God can reveal and manifest unto us the things which are given us of God is it possible we should make any considerable Progress and Proficiency in this Holy Study when we shall intend and prosecute it with the Spirit of the World and with Hearts filled and prepossessed with its Vanities To be short Sirs you be destinated unto an Employment in which there be no Advancements made but by Prayer and Prayers are never heard nor answered by God farther than they be sincere and they be not in the least sincere where the Hearts are not guided and purified by the Truth of God's Holy Word and Spirit who dictateth our Prayers and quickens and sanctifieth our Affections Do you imagin Sirs that God will give you his Holy Spirit without whom you are nothing and can do nothing unless you ask him of God And are you then qualified and fitted for Prayer a most holy Duty whenas your Spirit is stuffed up occupied and distracted with your Youthful Lusts and replenished with the provoking Objects of your Vanity Or can you bring unto this Sacred Ordinance to this most Religious Exercise that Attention Assiduity and Perseverance which is needful to the getting of gracious Answers and Returns from Heaven when as the better and far greater part and portion of our Time is wasted and consumed in worldly Companies and Conversations Certainly Sirs you will find it exceeding difficult to disintangle your selves from those Impressions you have first received and to empty your selves of the Vanities you have imbibed that you may be at Liberty to reflect and meditate upon God's Holy Word My Dear Brethren Honour and adorn that Profession whereunto you be devoted and it will reflect Beams of Honour again upon you Consider Sirs what is decent and becoming you and God will communicate what is needful for you to every one of you Let his Name and Glory be the principal Mark and Butt of your Condition and Studies and it will bring down toe choicest and chiefest Blessings of God upon you Let your Lives and Conversations be accompanied and crowned with all the Vertues and Graces of Reformed Christians with that Humility which becometh the Servants of God with that universal Modesty and Simplicity which God requireth from the Ministers of his Sanctuary in their Lives Actions Habits Language Behaviour and in your whole Course And then Sirs this your Sanctification will be most acceptable unto God and saving unto your selves it will bring your Profession into Credit and Reputation it will attract upon you the best Blessings of Heaven it will render your Studies and Employments prosperous successful edifying The Churches will be the better for you and the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus will be promoted and advanced by you In pursuance of an Order of the same Synod Messieurs Guitton and Bourdeau being at Saumur to pacifie the differences which were between some Members of that Church and Messieurs Amyraut and D'Huisseau Monsieur Guitton made this Speech Messieurs and most dear Brethren MY most honoured Colleagues together with my self were ordered by the Nationol Synod which was lately held and dissolved at Loudun to visit this Church and to assemble the Heads of its Families into this Consistory and to read unto you the Judgment of that venerable Assembly about the Differences fallen out among you and to endeavaur by the Grace of God and your Obedience your re-union which if already most happily begun between your two Pastors upon whose account you were divided and to ratifie that reconciliation of the Deputies of both Parties which you had sent unto it You shall hear their Judgment and the Act of our Commissions The Sieurs D'Huisseau Pastor accompanied with the Sieurs de Haumont Benoist and Favre did petition for themselves and on behalf of others the Heads of Families in the Church of Saumur that Monsieur d'Huisseau might be confirmed in his Ministry unto the said Church They appealed also from the Decrees of the first Synod held at Beauge in the Year 1656. and at Saumur in the Year 1657. and at Preuilly in the Year 1658. and in the second held at Beauge in this year 1659. and from the Orders of the Consistory of Saumur bearing Date the 16th and 27th Day of March 1659. And they complained of all that had been done in pursuance of those Synodical and Consistorial Decrees On the contrary part the Sieur Amyrald Pastor and Professor of Divanity in the said Church and University of Saumur together with the Sieurs Druett and Royer as well for themselves as for the other Deputies of that Consistory and of divers Heads of Families in the said Church together with the Deputies of the Province of Anjou did abet and maintain all the Acts Ordinances and Decrees of those Synods and Consistories before-named They were also heard declaring the Grounds of their Differences The Committee also who were appointed to examin and verifie the Acts of both Parties brought in their Report and at the same time Monsieur de Bois jardin Pastor of the said Church had Audience given him by the Assembly Upon the whole Debate this National Synod censured the Consistory of Saumur for that in stead of blaming the Deputies of the Assembly of the greater part of the Heads of Families held without their Order the 17th of September 1655. they did contrarywise receive them and at their instant earnest Suit had enjoyned the Sieur D'Huisseau to withdraw himself from the Service of the said Church against his Will and in contempt of