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Ratio disciplinae fratrum Nov-Anglorum. A faithful account of the discipline professed and practised; in…
Ratio disciplinae fratrum Nov-Anglorum. A faithful account of the discipline professed and practised; in the churches of New-England. : With interspersed and instructive reflections on the discipline of the primitive churches. : [Seven lines from Ezekiel]
Boston: printed for S. Gerrish, 1726
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.
And then that the Churches may not be thought more nice than wise in this Matter, they can quote from the great Ambrose a Passage of that Import, The Day which is called The Lord's Day, in the Church, is called Sunday by the Men of the World. And then the greater Austin hath shown them, That the Manichees in those Days, rather than the Christians, called the Lord's Day, by the Name of ⟨p. 45⟩Sunday: But adds, for our Parts we call it the Lord's Day, because on it, we Reverence not the Sun, but the Resurrection of the Lord. And they find him elsewhere very earnest for the Heathen Name to be laid aside; saying, 'Tis a manner of speaking that becomes not a Christian Mouth. They remember also, that Philastrius would have the Use of that Name with Christians reckoned little short of Heretical.
§. 3. The Hours taken for the two Meetings on the Lord's Day, are such as they Judge may most suit their Edification. Where any Number of the People have their living very remote from the Meeting-House, the Time of Intermission between the two Meetings is usually shortened for their sake; and they stay in or near it. But how do they spend this Time? The more faithful and watchful Pastors, are put upon using their best Contrivances, that their Employments may be most agreeable, and most serviceable to the Interests of Holiness. It has been proposed, That Repetitions of, or Conferences on, the Word of Christ may be some of the Employments.
§. 3. The Hours taken for the two Meetings on the Lord's Day, are such as they Judge may most suit their Edification. Where any Number of the People have their living very remote from the Meeting-House, the Time of Intermission between the two Meetings is usually shortned for their sake; and they stay in or near it. But how do they spend this Time? The more faithful and watchful Pastors, are put upon using their best Contrivances, that their Employments may be most agreeable, and most serviceable to the Interests of Holness. It has been proposed, That Repetitions of, or Conferences on, the Word of Christ may be some of the Employments.