A39224:224
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
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10 It will be necessary that an appointed Committee of this National Council be always (some or other of them) resident near unto the Supreme Civil Authority; that they may speedily have notice of all occurrences, that may have respect unto, or concern the Ecclesiastical affairs of the ⟨p. 34⟩Churches: and may receive Commands from Authority, about Fastings or Feastings, according to the well or ill being of the affairs of the Nation, or the Churches, either at home or abroad; and may call together the whole Council, if there be any cause that it should be so, &c.
10 It will be necessary that an appointed Committee of this National Council be alwayes (some or other of them) resident near unto the Supream Civil Authority; that they may speedily have notice of all occurrences, that may have respect unto, or concern the Ecclesiastical affaires of the ⟨p. 34⟩Churches: and may receive Commands from Authority, about Fastings or Feastings, according to the well or ill being of the affaires of the Nation, or the Churches, either at home or abroad; and may call together the whole Council, if there be any cause that it should be so, &c.
11. Such public Fasts and Feasts as concern all the Churches in the Nation to solemnize, which are not first commanded by civil Authority, why may they not be appointed and agreed on by the National Council• such public sins as are to be bewailed; such mercies as are to be implored for our Churches, or for the Nation, or for foreign Churches and Nations; such motions and designs of spreading and propagating religion as are in hand, &c. These are to be presented to all the Churches as matter of Prayer, both ordinary and extraordinary.
11. Such publick Fasts and Feasts as concern all the Churches in the Nation to solemnize, which are not first commanded by civil Authority, why may they not be appointed and agreed on by the National Council such publick sins as are to be bewailed; such mercies as are to be iplored for our Churches, or for the Nation, or for forreign Churches and Nations; such motions and designes of spreading and propagating religion as are in hand, &c. These are to be presented to all the Churches as matter of Prayer, both ordinary and extraordinary.