N00061:246
Communion of churches: or, The divine management of Gospel-churches by the ordinance of councils,…
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 way which hath so much light from the Scriptures of truth, as that it may lawfully be submitted unto by all; and may, by the blessing of the Lord, be a means of uniting those two holy and eminent parties, the Presbyterians and the Congregationals. : As also to prepare for the hoped for resurrection of the churches; and to propose a way to bring all Christian nations unto an unity of the faith and order of the Gospel. / Written by John Eliot, teacher of Roxbury in N.E. ; [Two lines of Scripture texts]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 way which hath so much light from the Scriptures of truth, as that it may lawfully be submitted unto by all; and may, by the blessing of the Lord, be a means of uniting those two holy and eminent parties, the Presbyterians and the Congregationals. : As also to prepare for the hoped for resurrection of the churches; and to propose a way to bring all Christian nations unto an unity of the faith and order of the Gospel. / Written by John Eliot, teacher of Roxbury in N.E. ; [Two lines of Scripture texts]
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.
Care is also to be had, that they stay no longer then necessary business, and just employment holdeth them, that there may be no temptations like company-keeping in vanity, and smoking away their precious time.
Care is also to be had, that they stay no long•r then necessary business, and just imployment holdeth them, that there may be no temptations like company-keeping in vanity, and smoaking away their precious time.
VII. Their entertainment may be 8 d. Ordinary at noon, and 6 d. at night, provided they be necessitated to tarry all night, otherwise their charges are but their dinner and horse-•eat.
VII. Their entertainment may be 8 d. Ordinary at noon, and 6 d. at night, provided they be necessita•ed to tarry all night, otherwise their charges are but their dinner and horse-•eat.
For the defraying of which charge, the Deacons of that Church where they meet, may be authorized so to order the matter with the Deacons of all the Churches in that combination, as that the ch•rge shall be by them defrayed, and not put to the account of any of the Elders. And by the same hands some recompense may be given to the Notaries, for their labour and service.
For the defraying of which charge, the Deacons of that Church where they meet, may be authorized so to order the matter with the Deacons of all the Churches in that combination, as that the chrge shall be by them defrayed, and not put to the accompt of any of the Elders. And by the same hands some recompence may be given to the Notaries, for their labour and service.