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Religious societies. Proposals for the revival of dying religion, by well ordered societies for…
Religious societies. Proposals for the revival of dying religion, by well ordered societies for that purpose. : With a brief discourse, offered unto a religious society, on the first day of their meeting. : [One line from I Thessalonians]
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland for John Phillips, 1724
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.
III. LET all who are to be admitted, as Members of the Society, be accompanied by two or three of the rest, unto the Minister of the Place, that they may receive his holy Counsels and Charges, and that every thing may be done with his Approbation; and so let their Names be added unto the Roll.
IV. IF any Person thus enrolled among them, fall into a Scandalous Iniquity, Let the Rebukes of the Society be dispensed unto him, and let them forbid him to come any more among them, until he bring suitable Expressions and Evidences of Repentance with him.
V. LET the Lift be once a Quarter called over; and then, If it be observed, that any of the Society have much absented themselves, Let there be some sent unto them, to inquire the Reason of their Absence; and if no Reason be given, but such as intimates an Apostasy from good Beginnings, Let them upon obstinacy, after loving and faithful Admonitions, be Obliterated.
V. LET the Lift be once a Quarter called over; and then, If it be observed, that any of the Society have much absented themselves, Let there be some sent unto them, to inquire the Reason of their Absence; and if no Reason be given, but such as intimates an Apostacy from good Beginnings, Let them upon obstinacy, after loving and faithful Admonitions, be Obliterated.