Men shall not hold females at the font, neither women males; but women females, and men males.
Canon XXIII.
Of the prohibited marriages of spiritual brothers and sisters from receiving them in baptism.
Canon XXIV.
Of him who has married two wives at the same time, or who through lust has added another woman to his wife; and of his punishment.
Part of the canon. If he be a priest he is forbidden to sacrifice and is cut off from the communion of the faithful until he turn out of the house the second woman, and he ought to retain the first.
Canon XXV.
That no one should be forbidden Holy Communion unless such as are doing penance.
Canon XXVI.
Clerics are forbidden from suretyship or witness-giving in criminal causes.
Canon XXVII.
Of avoiding the excommunicate, and of not receiving the oblation from them; and of the excommunication of him who does not avoid the excommunicated.
Canon XXVIII.
How anger, indignation, and hatred should be avoided by the priest, especially because he has the power of excommunicating others.
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