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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.
3. This practice of our Churches has a tendency to promote Godliness in the Power ⟨p. 36⟩of it. I bless the Lord, in that there are a• this day in London, several Religious Societies of the Communion of the Church of England, whose design is to promote Religion in the Power of it. Now these Societies require of such as join to them, that they give the Society a Solemn account of their sense of Spiritual things, which they do sometimes Orally and sometimes in Writing. One that has perused some of their Papers, Reports tha• they have in them such Pious and sensible Expressions as would mightily affect any Pious Person to read them. But of this I have made a more large Recitation in a lately (l)published Epistle. Now since this practice has a tendency to promote Godliness, wha• should it not be continued in our Churches▪ If the Reformers in the Church of England, require a Solemn account of their sense of Spiritual things of those that are Admitted into their Religious Societies, why may not we require the like of them that join to our Churches, which are Religious Societies?
3. This practice of our Churches has a tendency to promote Godliness in the Power ⟨p. 36⟩of it. I bless the Lord, in that there are a• this day in London, several Religious Societies of the Communion of the Church of England, whose design is to promote Religion in the Power of it. Now these Societies require of such as joyn to them, that they give the Society a Solemn account of their sence of Spiritual things, which they do sometimes Orally and sometimes in Writing. One that has perused some of their Papers, Reports tha• they have in them such Pious and sensible Expressions as would mightily affect any Pious Person to read them. But of this I have made a more large Recitation in a lately (l)