N00061:25
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.
Both Directive, in Word, Sacraments, Prayer, Singing of Psalms, and Collections: Acts 2.42. They continued steadfastly in the Apostles doctrine, and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. Col. 3.16. Teaching one another in Psalms and Hymns, &c. 1 Cor. 16.1, 2. Every first day lay by it self, &c. for [Greek or Hebrew] is the Neuter Gender, as well as Masculine, and is so to be read, because they had two distinct Collections at that time The Collection for Jerusalem was by it self, a public, not a private Collection. Corrective: 1 Cor. 5.4, 5. When gathered together, deliver to Satan.
Both Directive, in Word, Sacraments, Prayer, Singing of Psalms, and Collections: Acts 2.42. They continued stedfastly in the Apostles doctrine, and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. Col. 3.16. Teaching one another in Psalms and Hymns, &c. 1 Cor. 16.1, 2. Every first day lay by it self, &c. for 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is the Neuter Gender, as well as Masculine, and is so to be read, because they had two distinct Collections at that time The Collection for Jerusalem was by it self, a publick, not a private Collection. Corrective: 1 Cor. 5.4, 5. When gathered together, deliver to Satan.
III The administration of, and participation in all these Ordinances, (while we are in this flesh, and state militant) are so full of variety of difficulties and temptations, especially where Churches are numerous, that the work cannot long be carried on (awhile it sometimes may, viz. whe