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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.
A Charitable Consideration of nothing but PIETY in admitting to Evangelical Privileges, is a Glory that the Churches of New-England, would lay claim unto; Churches of which one of their Pastors once gave this Account unto his Correspondents in the Lower Saxony; Quod se nullis Communionis Conditionibus, nisiquae sint et Unionis cum Christo, Aeternaeque Salutis Conditions, astringant. Cunctos ad Dei Gloriam a Christo admissos, ad sacram cum ipsis Eucharistiam, et ad omnia Ecclesiastica Privilegia fatentur admittendos. Calvinistae sunt qui Lutherranos; Presbyteriani qui Episcopales; Poedobaptistae qui Antipaedobaptistas, modo sincera in illis Pietas resplendeat, et si manifesto Deum timeant, Justitiamque operentur, benignissime amplexantur.
A Charitable Consideration of nothing but PIETY in admitting to Evangelical Priviledges, is a Glory that the Churches of New-England, would lay claim unto; Churches of which one of their Pastors once gave this Account unto his Correspondents in the Lower Saxony; Quod se nullis Communionis Conditionibus, nisiquae sint et Unionis cum Christo, Aeternaeque Salutis Conditiones, astringant. Cunctos ad Dei Gloriam a Christo admissos, ad sacram cum ipsis Eucharistiam, et ad omnia Ecclesiastica Privilegia fatentur admittendos. Calvinistae sunt qui Lutherranos; Presbyteriani qui Episcopales; Poedobaptistae qui Antipaedobaptistas, modo sincera in illis Pietas resplendeat, et si manifesto Deum timeant, Justitiamque operentur, benignissime amplexantur.
§. 4. Before the Persons who have thus privately addressed the Pastor for Admission into the Church, are publicly admitted, he propounds their Names unto the Congregation, with an ⟨p. 91⟩Intimation of what they have desired. He takes his Time to Read or Tell unto the Church, (and sometimes as many of the mixed Assembly as please, are allowed also to stay,) what he judges proper of the Examination, which has been taken of their Pious Dispositions or Experiences; Adding, that he has received an Encouraging Testimony of their Conversation.
§. 4. Before the Persons who have thus privately addressed the Pastor for Admission into the Church, are publickly admitted, he propounds their Names unto the Congregation, with an