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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.
ARTICLE VI. The Pastoral Care Exercised in the more PRIVATE SERVICES of it.
§. 1. A Pastor being one that is to watch for the Souls of his Flock, as one that is to give an Account, there are Private as well as Public Services expected from him; whereof the first and not the least, is that of CATECHISING.
§. 1. A Pastor being one that is to watch for the Souls of his Flock, as one that is to give an Account, there are Private as well as Publick Services expected from him; whereof the first and not the least, is that of CATECHISING.
The Work of a Catechist was often a Distinct Office, in the Primitive Churches: But it is reckoned incumbent for the most Part upon every Pastor in the New English: And there is much Variety used in the Discharge of it.
Formerly, There were several Divines in these Churches (it were easy to reckon more than a Decemvirate of them) who, like Cyril, and some others of the Fathers, composed and published Catechisms of their own, which were designed more peculiarly for the Edification of the particular People, with whom they were travailing.