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The order of the Gospel, professed and practised by the churches of Christ in…
The order of the Gospel, professed and practised by the churches of Christ in New England, justified, by the Scripture, and by the writings of many learned men, both ancient and modern divines; in answer to several questions, relating to church discipline / by Increase Mather, president of Harvard College in Cambridge, and teacher of a church at Boston in New England. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]The order of the Gospel, professed and practised by the churches of Christ in New England, justified, by the Scripture, and by the writings of many learned men, both ancient and modern divines; in answer to several questions, relating to church discipline / by Increase Mather, president of Harvard Colledge in Cambridge, and teacher of a church at Boston in New England. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1700
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.
QUESTION. XI. MAY the Brethren in Churches and not the Pastors only be sent unto, and have their Voice in Ecclesiastical Councils?
QUESTION. XI. MAY the Brethren in Churches and not the Past•rs only be sent unto, and have their Voice in Ecclesiastical Councils?
Anws. We maintain the Affirmative in this Question In the last General Synod which •as in New-England, viz. That which met at Boston in the year 1679. Some Churches sent […] their E•ders without any Brethren: which the Synod was so far unsatisfied with, […] that they would not allow those Pastors […] fit with them, until they had prevailed with their Churches to send Brethren also, being very tender of admitting any thing •hat should look like an infringement of that Liberty and privilege which does by the Institution of Christ belong to the Brotherhood in particular Churches. The reasons of our Judgement are such as these.
Anws. We maintain the Affirmative in this Question In the last General Synod which •as in New-England, viz. That which met at •oston in the year 1679. Some Churches sent 〈…〉 their E•ders without any Brethren: which the Synod was so far unsatisfyed with, 〈…〉 that they would not allow those Pastors fit with them, until they had prevailed with their Churches to send Brethren also, being very tender of admitting any thing hat should look like an infringement of that Liberty and priviledge which does by the Institution of Christ belong to the Brotherhood in particular Churches. The reasons of our Judgement are such as these.