A39224:191
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.
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.
VIII. If any Case prove too hard for them to resolve, or if they be considerably divided in judgement, then the Case is to be transmitted to the next Provincial Council, and recorded so to be, with the Reasons of transmitting the sa•.
VIII. If any Case prove too hard for them to resolve, or if they be con•iderably divided in judgement, then the Case is to be transmitted to the next Provincial Council, and •ecorded so to be, with the Reasons of transmitting the sa•.