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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 now (as Tertullian says, Oratio Convivium dirimit) passes on to a third Prayer; consisting of the most Raised Thanksgiving to GOD, and Assurance of the Blessings in the New Covenant, sealed by this Ordinance. And as Chrysostom tells us, one had need have the ΠΑΡΡΗΣΙΑ, the Confidence, the Liberty, and the Enlargements of a Moses or Elijah, to Pray as they did use to do in the Primitive Times at the Eucharist; It may now be said, That some of the Pastors often pray with very much of the Spirit of a Moses, or an Elijah, on these Eucharistical Occasions. Or, the same Account may be given of them, that Nazianzen gives of the Prayers made by his Venerable Father in the Celebrating of the Eucharist; They have been made, ΠΑΡΑ ΤΟΥ ΑΓΙΟΥ ΠΝΕΥΜΑΤΟΣ, by the Holy Spirit of GOD.
The Pastor now (as Tertullian says, Oratio Convivium dirimit) passes on to a third Prayer; consisting of the most Raised Thanksgiving to GOD, and Assurance of the Blessings in the New Covenant, sealed by this Ordinance. And as Chrysostom tells us, one had need have the ΠΑΡΡΗΣΙΑ, the Confidence, the Liberty, and the Enlargements of a Moses or Elias, to Pray as they did use to do in the Primitive Times at the Eucharist; It may now be said, That some of the Pastors often pray with very much of the Spirit of a Moses, or an Elias, on these Eucharistical Occasions. Or, the same Account may be given of them, that Nazianzen gives of the Prayers made by his Venerable Father in the Celebrating of the Eucharist; They have been made, ΠΑΡΑ ΤΟΥ ΑΓΙΟΥ ΠΝΕΥΜΑΤΟΣ, by the Holy Spirit of GOD.
Many of the Churches, every time the Eucharist is administered, but some once a Quarter, some once a Year, have what Justin Martyr calls in the Primitive Churches, ΤΑ ΣΥΛΛΕΛΟΜΕΝΑ, and what Tertullian calls Deposita Pietatis; their Contributions, wherein they gather Money to relieve the Poor, as well as to defray the Charges of Eucharist. What was gathered in the Primitive Churches was committed unto the Pastors, to relieve Widows, and Orphans, and Prisoners, and Strangers, and in a Word, All that were in Want. ⟨p. 102⟩In the New-English it is committed unto the Deacons.