A39224:225
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.
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 i•plored 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.
12. When these Members of the National Council return unto the Provincial Councils, whose delegates they (immediately) are, they are to report unto them the state and affairs of all the Churches in the Nation, and in foreign Nations also And they are to report them to all the first Councils. and they unto all the Churches, as matters of prai•e, and prayer to God, and of encouragement to obedience unto government.
12. When these Members of the National Council return unto the Provincial Councils, whose delegates they (immediately) are, they are to report unto them the state and affaires of all the Churches in the Nation, and in forreign Nations also And they are to report them to all the first Councils. and they unto all the Churches, as matters of prai•e, and prayer to God, and of incouragement to obedience unto government.