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The first principles of New-England concerning the subject of baptism & communion of churchesThe first principles of New-England concerning the subject of baptisme & communion of churches
The first principles of New-England concerning the subject of baptism & communion of churches : collected partly out of the printed books, but chiefly out of the original manuscripts of the first and chief fathers in the New-English churches : with the judgment of sundry learned divines of the congregational way in England, concerning the said questions : published for the benefit of those who are of the rising generation in New-England / by Increase Mather ...The first principles of New-England concerning the subject of baptisme & communion of churches : collected partly out of the printed books, but chiefly out of the original manuscripts of the first and chiefe fathers in the New-English churches : with the judgment of sundry learned divines of the congregational way in England, concerning the said questions : published for the benefit of those who are of the rising generation in New-England / by Increase Mather ...
printed by Samuel Green, 1675
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.
There having been some who have thought that the Doctrine of the late Synod Book Concerning Baptism and the Communion or Consociation of Churches is an Innovation and Apostasy from the first principles of New England. And inasmuch as it may be a special Service for these Churches, both in present and in after times, that men should know what the first Principles touching these Controversies were, Considering also, that the Lords Servants and Messengers are much wronged when Apostasy is imputed to them, upon account of the Doctrine aforesaid, and that it will be a thing very acceptable unto God (who is displeased and dishonoured when his faithful ones are traduced) that his Servants should be vindicated from such injurious Aspersions: upon these and the like Considerations, we shall endeavour (as in the Lords holy fear) to enquire what were the first Principles of New-England concerning the Subject of Baptism and Communion of Churches, and leave it to ⟨p. 2⟩the Christian world, and to Posterity to judge who are the Apostates.
THere having been some who have thought that the Doctrine of the late Synod Book Concerning Baptism and the Communion or Consociation of Churches is an Innovation and Apostacy from the first principles of New England. And inasmuch as it may be a special Service for these Churches, both in present and in after times, that men should know what the first Principles touching these Controversies were, Considering also, that the Lords Servants and Messengers are much wronged when Apostacy is imputed to them, upon account of the Doctrine aforesaid, and that it will be a thing very acceptable unto God (who is displeased and dishonoured when his faithful ones are traduced) that his Servants should be vindicated from such injurious Aspersions: upon these and the like Considerations, we shall endeavour (as in the Lords holy fear) to erquire what were the first Principles of New-England concerning the Subject of Baptism and Communion of Churches, and leave it to ⟨p. 2⟩the Christian world, and to Posterity to judge who are the Apostates.