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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.
Answ. 1. As the Question is worded, the Answer must be Negative. Nor do the Churches of New England impose this•: nor ought this to be required or desired of every one that joins to our Communion:
Answ. 1. As the Question is worded, the Answer must be Negative. Nor do the Churches of New England impose this•: nor ought this to be required or desired of every one that joyns to our Communion:
For,
1. Some truly Converted ones know neither the Time nor the Manner of their Conversion▪ It is often so with those that have been Advantaged with a Religious Education, and that have been all their days kept from falling into Scandalous Sins. The Spirit of God changeth their Hearts gradually and insensibly, as Mr. Hooker and other practical Divines have shown. I have (h)else-where noted ⟨p. 30⟩what Mr. Baxter relates concerning a considerable number of Eminent Christians who being met together on other accounts, it was proposed whether they could all give an account of the Exact Time of their Conversion; and there was but one of them all that could do it.
1. Some truly Converted ones know neither the Time nor the Manner of their Conversion▪ It is often so with those that have been Advantaged with a Religious Education, and that have been all their dayes kept from falling into Scandalous Sins. The Spirit of God changeth their Hearts gradually and insensibly, as Mr. Hooker and other practical Divines have shewen. I have