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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
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It may be added, That tho' the Communicants in the Churches of New-England are not constantly tied unto their own Pastors, yet if they should not Ordinarily hear them, when they are able to do it, the Omission would be thought a Disorder.
Moreover, That Custom of Persons falling to their Private Prayers at their first coming into ⟨p. 63⟩the Assembly, in the time of public Worship, is in these Churches, neither practiced, nor approved. So far as it openly proclaims a secret and singular Devotion, it is condemned as a Pharisaical Ostentation. So far as the Holiness of Places is the Ground therein gone upon, the Principle is disowned. So far as it interferes with other Ordinances then managing, it is accounted such a Diversion as puts a Disrespect upon them. It is reckoned a Vanity, that a Christian cannot have his Devout Ejaculations, without signalizing them unto the Notice of his Neighbours. And they Concur with what our Clarkson and other Divines have offered; That this is against the Apostles Rule for the Regulation of public Assemblies, in 1 Cor. XIV. 40. Let all things be done decently and in order.
Moreover, That Custom of Persons falling to their Private Prayers at their first coming into ⟨p. 63⟩the Assembly, in the time of publick Worship, is in these Churches, neither practiced, nor approved. So far as it openly proclaims a secret and singular Devotion, it is condemned as a Pharisaical Ostentation. So far as the Holiness of Places is the Ground therein gone upon, the Principle is disowned. So far as it interferes with other Ordinances then managing, it is accounted such a Diversion as puts a Disrespect upon them. It is reckoned a Vanity, that a Christian cannot have his Devout Ejaculations, without signalizing them unto the Notice of his Neighbours. And they Concur with what our Clarkson and other Divines have offered; That this is against the Apostles Rule for the Regulation of publick Assemblies, in