Ratio disciplinae fratrum Nov-Anglorum. A faithful account of the discipline professed and practised; in…

We will proceed then to Describe the PRACTICES in which they generally manage and ⟨p. 6⟩uphold their Principles. And that the Story may be the less Insipid, we will take the leave to Salt it now and then with Interspersed Notes of what we find practised in other Churches; especially in the Primitive: [Wherein you will also Excuse the Complement unto Vossius and Henninius in leaving the little Greek we use without the Encumbrance of the Novel and needless Accents upon it: Yea, since we are in a Book of Primitive Things, we will hope to be excused, if •he want of Types in our Press, compel us to give what little Greek we use, in Capitals: For the writing of Greek otherwise than in Capitals, was introduced in later Ages, by the Monks of Egypt, who borrowed the smaller Letters now used, from the Coptic:] Which will be the more easily pardoned, when 'tis remembered that in our brief Remarks, we shall a little imitate what was done in the RATIO DISCIPLINAE FRATRUM BOHEMORUM, written by that Incomparable Comenius, who once had resolved upon coming over, at an Invitation to become the President of Harvard College in this Country, if he had not, by being invited unto Sweden, been diverted from it.

We will proceed then to Describe the PRACTICES in which they generally manage and ⟨p. 6⟩uphold their Principles. And that the Story may be the less Insipid, we will take the leave to Salt it now and then with Interspersed Notes of what we find practised in other Churches; especially in the Primitive: [Wherein you will also Excuse the Complement unto Vossius and Henninius in leaving the little Greek we use without the Encumbrance of the Novel and needless Accents upon it: Yea, since we are in a Book of Primitive Things, we will hope to be excused, if •he want of Types in our Press, compel us to give what little Greek we use, in Capitals: For the writing of Greek otherwise than in Capitals, was introduced in later Ages, by the Monks of Egypt, who borrowed the smaller Letters now used, from the Coptic:] Which will be the more easily pardoned, when 'tis remembred that in our brief Remarks, we shall a little imitate what was done in the RATIO DISCIPLINAE FRATRUM BOHEMORUM, written by that Incomparable Comenius, who once had resolved upon coming over, at an Invitation to become the President of Harvard College in this Country, if he had not, by being invited unto Sueden, been diverted from it.