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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.
You do now sincerely and very solemnly give up your selves unto the Glorious GOD, who is the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and receive Him as your GOD and Portion; Desiring to live unto Him. You do give up your selves unto the Lord JESUS ⟨p. 92⟩CHRIST, who is GOD manifest in Flesh, as unto the Head of His Chosen People, and receive Him as made of GOD unto you, Wisdom, and Righteousness, and Holiness, and Redemption. You do likewise give your selves unto this Church of His; engaging with His Help, in the Communion thereof, to attend upon the Ordinances of the Gospel, while your Opportunities to be thereby Edified in your most Holy Faith shall here be continued unto you.
They by a proper Action showing their Consent hereunto; he adds;
They by a proper Action shewing their Consent hereunto; he adds;
We then the Church of our SAVIOUR in this Place, do receive you into our sacred Fellowship, and promise that by His Assistance, we will treat you with such Affection and Watchfulness, as your sacred Relation unto us now calleth for. This we do, imploring of our Lord, that both we and you, may obtain Mercy to be faithful in His Covenant, and Glorify Him with the Holiness that becomes his House forever.
We then the Church of our SAVIOUR in this Place, do receive you into our sacred Fellowship, and promise that by His Assistence, we will treat you with such Affection and Watchfulness, as your sacred Relation unto us now calleth for. This we do, imploring of our Lord, that both we and you, may obtain Mercy to be faithful in His Covenant, and Glorify Him with the Holiness that becomes his House forever.