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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.
The Pastor having first mentioned the Names of the Persons (if there be any such) belonging to other Churches, who request a Part in the present Communion, he then addresses himself with all possible Solemnity, unto the Celebration.
In some Churches, there is first, as there was in some of the Primitive, a Solita Praedicatio, or a Speech only unto the Communicants, to prepare them for the Action: But this is not in all.
With a short Passage equivalent unto the Sursum Corda of the Ancients, [which, by the Way, confutes Transubstantiation] he bespeaks their Attention. But then, either he reads the whole Paragraph, Luk. XXII. 19, 20. Or, 1 Cor. XI. 23, 24, 25, 26. Or else, Makes the Recitation by Parcels. First, he says, Our Lord JESUS CHRIST in the Night wherein he was betrayed, took BREAD. Upon so saying he touches with his Hand the Loaves of Bread in the Dishes, (or takes the Dishes towards him) now before him, uncovered, where they were aforehand fitted, easily to be broken in Pieces.