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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. III. Subscription and Oaths required in the French Church, more than in the Church of England. As to what concerns the ministry in particular, I have this thing further to observe, that they are obliged to conformity and uniformity, not only by the bare authority of their Synods and Canons, but also by many personal obligations of subscriptions and oaths, which all persons make at their entrance on the ministry, and frequently repeat in their Synodical meetings, and on many other occasions. One of the Canons of their book of discipline is this: Our confession of faith and Church discipline, shall be subscribed by such as are chosen into the ministry, both in the churches in which they are ordained, and in those unto which they are sent. Book of Discipline, cap. i. art. 9 and 21. The same is required by the canons of their national Synods of Orleance, 1562, cap. 2, art. 2. Rochel, 1571, cap. 3, art. 5. Privas, 1612, cap. iv. art. 2. It is exacted also of all regents and masters of schools, by their Book of Discipline, cap. ii. art. 2; and by the Synod of Alez, 1620, cap. 5, art. 11. As also of all Doctors and Professors of Divinity in their Universities. See the Discipline, cap. ii. art. 3. Synod of Nismes, 1572, cap. iii. art. 15. Synod of Gap, 1603, cap. iii. art. 7. All Elders and Deacons are obliged to make the same subscription at their ordination. Synod of Vertuel, 1567, cap. iii. art. 17. Book of Discipline, cap. iii. art. 1. And in some cases it was required of private persons; as appears from a Canon of the Synod of Alez, 1620, cap. v. art. 12. Where the question being moved, Whether a person that was never called to the office of an elder, might warrantably read the Word of God and the CommonPrayers unto the Church, in the minister's abse...
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