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…The second is, that in every Rurall D◊anry, all the Pastors within the Precinct, may by the Chorepiscopus or Suffragan, be every month Assembled in a Synod, and according to the Major part of their voices, he conclude all matters that shall be brought into debate before them, as Excommunication &c.…
Richard Baxter — Five Disputations of Church-Government and Worship, CHAP. VII. Some instances to prove that moderate men will agree upon the foregoing terms., p. 344