when an Infidel is buried in it; in which Cafe the Church is not only to be reconciled, but the Walls are alfo to be fcraped: The fifth is, when the Church has been Confecrated or Blessed by a Bishop that was publickly Excommunicate; in all which Cafes the Church is to be reconciled, which reconciliation being to be done to a Church that was Confecrated by a Bishop, none but a Bishop can perform it: But having been only Bleffed by one, or by a Priest, the Vicar may perform the Reconciliation, according to the Form, and with the Prayers and Ceremonies contained in the Roman Ceremonial Translated into Syrian; and it is to be obferved, that when a Church is violated, the Church-yard that belongs to it is violated alfo, if they are not at fome distance the one from the other; but when the Church-yard is violated in any of the forementioned Cafes, the Church it belongs and is joined to, is not violated thereby.

Decree XXXI.

T being of mighty moment that Confecrated Churches be had in great Reverence; and whereas in this Diocefs it is a common thing for. Sick People out of Devotion to lie in Churches with their Wives and Families for feveral days, hoping thereby to be cured of their Diftempers, which cannot be done without many Services; wherefore the Synod doth command, That no Perfon whatsoever, tho' never fo Sick, do lie

in the Church with his Family, the time of War only excepted, but the Sick having performed their Devotion, fhall lie at home at their own Houses, or if they fhall defire it may Lodge in fome Houses that are near to the Church, or in the Porches thereof, but by no means within the Church.

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Whereas there is a great neglect in carrying

Corps of those that die in the Heaths

to the Church, which are fometimes buried without a Prieft, and in unconfecrated Earth; wherefore the Synod doth command, That the Kindred, or those in whofe Houses Chriftians do die, do carry their Corps, how far foever they may live off, near to the Church, where the Vicars fhall go to fetch them, with the Crofs of the Church, and in their Surplice and Stole, praying all the way they go with the rest of the Clergy, and Interr them, which all, tho' never fo poor, fhall be oblig'd to do: And if at the time when they bring the Corps they fhall meet with no Priests in the Church, they fhall then affemble as many Christians together as conveniently they can, and bury the Corps in the Church-yard, praying for their Souls with Chriftian Charity: And whofoever shall neglect to bring their Dead to the Church, and fhall bury them in Profane Ground, fhall be feverely punished by the Bishop.

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Decree XXXIII.

Hereas the Small-Pox is looked upon in these parts as a very dangerous and infe&tious Distemper, for which reason a great many Christians dying thereof are not carried to the Church, nor buried in Holy ground; herefore the Synod doth very much recommend it • to the Vicars to take order, that the Corps of fuch as die of that Sickness may be brought with due caution to the Church-yard, where they with the rest of the Clergy at fome distance are to recommend them, and pray for them, as they do for others, and to fee them interr'd: all which Chriftian Charity will teach them to do, according to the Obligation of their Office.

Decree XXXIV.

T 'He Synod doth order that no Town or Vil

lage, wherein there is a Church dedicated to any Saint, fhall dedicate the fame to any o ther, or if they do, they fhall appoint another Orago, or Wake, so as to have two Festivals to prevent those Emulations that are common in thefe parts. The Synod alfo condemns the* Ignorance of those Chriftians who imagine that they

* Ignozance. Upon S. Te refa being joyned with St. James, in the Patronage of Spain by Pope Urban the VIIIth. how loud did

a great many people complain of the Indignity done to St. James, their old Patron and General in all their Wars, by that Partner

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do an injury to a Church, in dedicating a New one in the fame Country to a different Saint, from whence it is that all the Churches in the fame Country are as it were called by the fame Name, and doth furthermore command, That upon the Orago's of Churches where there are Sermons, people having no Sermon in their own Parish, do repair thither that fo there may be no divifions among Churches, to the prejudice of Charity and Christian Unity, as the Synod is informed there is in many places, all which it is defirous to remove, as not becoming Chriftians, and for the further service of the Church commands Fraternities to be erected, but efpecially for the feftivities, by which means fuch things as are neceffary for the Church may be greatly advanced.

fhip. Among others, Quivedo, as in Honour bound, being a Knight of the Order of St. James, drew his pen in his Patron's Quarrel, and having laid down this as an undeniable pofition, That St. James must neceffarily be difparaged by having one joyned with him, and especially a Woman, in a Patronage he had enjoyed folely for fo many Ages; did manfully maintain that, its being faid in the Pope's Bull, That nothing was granted therein to S.Teresa that should be in any wife to the prejudice or diminution of St. James, did make that whole grant null and void, for that joyning her with St. James in fuch an Office muft neceffarily leffen him: 2dly.

That the Saints in Heaven did refent fuch Affronts. 3. That it was monftrous Ingratitude in Spain to treat a Patron thus, who had fought perfonally on Horseback for her in all her Battels with the Moors, among whom to this day the Captain on the Whitehorse was formidable. As to the Text in Scripture urged by S. Teresa's Friends for fuch a partnership. viz. It i not good for man to be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. He faith, That confidering what was the true intent of those words when they were spoke, fuch an application of them was profane and Heretical.

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Decree XXXV.

He Synod doth very much recommend it to the Vicars of Churches, and other Priests to labour much in the Converfion of Infidels, and that by juft and gentle methods, namely, by the preaching of the Gospel to bring them to the Catholick Faith, and to omit no opportunity of instructing as well the Naires as the Chegos, or bafer fort of People in the knowledge of the Truth; but above all, the poor Malleans who live in the Heaths, who as the Synod is informed, are lefs wedded to their Errors, particularly that of the Adoration of Idols, and are much better difpofed to receive the Evangelical Doctrine than others; and whenfoever any Infidel is converted, the Priest shall advise the Prelate thereof, that he may take fuch order therein as he shall judge mcft convenient, and to be most for the fervice of Chrift, earnestly entreating that the Converfions that are begun in fome parts by the most Reverend Metropolitan, may be carried on by the Clergy of this Diocefs, by providing themselves continually of fuch Priests as are fit to advance the fame, and where-ever there is any confiderable number of Converts, they shall immediately build Churches, and appoint Vicars to take the Cure of their Souls.

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