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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.
If they be Sick Children that are prayed withal, Pains are taken, in the first Place, to dispose ⟨p. 111⟩the Minds of the Parents unto the Holy Resignation with which they are to offer the Sacrifices now called for. And then the Prayer takes Notice of certain peculiar and adapted Articles.
It owns the Providence of GOD, without which not a Bird of the Air falls to the Earth.
It bewails the sad Effects of Original Sin, appearing in the Miseries that attend us, even from our most Early Infancy.
It prays for the Recovery of the Child: But that if the Child be to Die, it may yet have a Soul sprinkled with the Blood of the Lamb of GOD, and bound up in the Bundle of Life.
It prays for the Recovery of the Child: But that if the Child be to Die, it may yet have a Soul sprinkled with the Blood of the Lumb of GOD, and bound up in the Bundle of Life.