Ratio disciplinae fratrum Nov-Anglorum. A faithful account of the discipline professed and practised; in…

Name: Ratio disciplinae fratrum Nov-Anglorum. A faithful account of the discipline professed and practised; in…
Author: Cotton Mather

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]

Cotton Mather 1663–1728Boston: printed for S. Gerrish, 1726

[2], iv, 10, 207, [5] p. ; 18 cm. (8vo) · 57k words · Evans 2775

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We Proceed unto the Methods and Customs, IN THE CHURCHES OF New-Eng… › Article 3: ARTICLE III. The Usual Services which every Lord's Day calleth for.

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§. 6. The SERMON follows. The Pastor proceeds to the Service which Athanasius tells Draconicus, the People expected from him, when they elected him to his Bishopric: Even, To bring Meat out of the Doctrine of the Scriptures. The Churches of New-England, though they use not the Ceremony (which was frequently used of old) of putting the Bible on the Heads of their Ministers in their Ordinations, yet they expect the Heads, and Hearts, and Lips of their Ministers to be employed in opening the Bible unto them. They approve so far of the Ancient Canons, (whereof Herald of Tours made a Capitulary) That Ministers should preach to all the Faithful, the Doctrines of Faith; the Incarnation of JESUS CHRIST, His Death, and Resurrection, and Ascension; The Gift of the Holy Spirit, and the Remission of Sins. They reckon with Gregory (him who has been called, The Great) That for a Bishop to abstain from Preaching is a filthy shame, and a wicked thing, and a Token of Death. And they are of Jerem's Mind, That no Testimony of his Virtues can profit him, if he be not able to teach the People committed to him.

§. 6. The SERMON follows. The Pastor proceeds to the Service which Athanasius tells Draconicus, the People expected from him, when they elected him to his Bishoprick: Even, To bring Meat out of the Doctrine of the Scriptures. The Churches of New-England, though they use not the Ceremony (which was frequently used of old) of putting the Bible on the Heads of their Ministers in their Ordinations, yet they expect the Heads, and Hearts, and Lips of their Ministers to be employed in opening the Bible unto them. They approve so far of the Ancient Canons, (whereof Herald of Tours made a Capitulary) That Ministers should preach to all the Faithful, the Doctrines of Faith; the Incarnation of JESUS CHRIST, His Death, and Resurrection, and Ascention; The Gift of the Holy Spirit, and the Remission of Sins. They reckon with Gregory (him who has been called, The Great) That for a Bishop to abstain from Preaching is a filthy shame, and a wicked thing, and a Token of Death. And they are of Jerem's Mind, That no Testimony of his Virtues can profit him, if he be not able to teach the People committed to him.

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Accordingly, bespeaking Attention, he reads a Text, longer or shorter, as he pleases, from the sacred Scriptures, and then makes a Sermon

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