A39224:190
Communion of churches, or, The divine management of gospel-churches
Communion of churches, or, The divine management of gospel-churches by the ordinance of councils constituted in order according to the Scriptures as also the way of bringing all Christian parishes to be particular Reforming Congregational Churches, humbly proposed as ... a means of uniting those two holy and eminent parties the Presbyterians and the Congregationals ... / written by John Eliot.Communion of churches, or, The divine management of gospel-churches by the ordinance of councils constituted in order according to the Scriptures as also the way of bringing all Christian parishes to be particular Reforming Congregationall Churches, humbly proposed as ... a means of uniting those two holy and eminent parties the Presbyterians and the Congregationals ... / written by John Eliot.
printed by Marmaduke Johnson, 1665
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
VI. If any other person or persons whatever, have any Question or Case, in matters of Religion, to propose unto the Council, they in the next place may have liberty in a reverent and orderly manner, to propose the same, and it is to be Considered and Answered. Also any other matter concerning the public good of the Churches, and promotion of Religion, may be discussed and ordered, as Fastings, Feastings propagation of the Gospel, and the like.
VI. If any other person or persons whatever, have any Question or Case, in matters of Religion, to propose unto the Council, they in the next place may have liberty in a reverent and orderly manner, to propose the same, and it is to be Considered and Answered. Also any other matter concerning the publick good of the Churches, and promotion of Religion, may be discussed and ordered, as Fastings, Feastings •ropagation of the Gospel, and the like.
VII. If business so multiply, that one day sufficeth not to finish the work, the Council have liberty to appoint other ⟨p. 29⟩times, so of• a• they need, within the month: and if they finish not in that month, it must be left on record how the case standeth, and so to be presented to the Council that shall be chosen for the next month, which ordinarily, in this order, will be the same persons, or (at least) most of them.
VII. If business so multiply, that one day sufficeth not to fi•ish the work, the Council have liberty to appoint other ⟨p. 29⟩times, so of• a• they need, within the moneth: and if they finish not in that moneth, it must be left on record how the case standeth, and so to be presented to the Council that shall be chosen for the next moneth, which ordinarily, in this order, will be the same persons, or (at least) most of them.