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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
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Some of the more famous Divines, at the first Settlement of these Churches, publicly declared, themselves, for the Affirmative of the Question. And long after them, Dr. Goodwin gave it under his Hand, with an, Ita sentio, ita sensi; That every true Minister, actually such to his own Church, is Medium Applicabile, an Instrument ⟨p. 136⟩that may apply to any Ministerial Act out of his own Church, in any other Church, if he be there unto called by them. Yea, when Polycarp, a Scholar of the Apostle John, and one Ordained (as Jerome, and Eusebius and others testify) by the Apostles themselves, came from Smyrna to Rome, for the Composing of some Differences, Anicetus the Pastor of the Church there, to express his Love and Honour for him, requested him to administer the Eucharist unto the Church, where he now appeared but as a Traveller; and, he did it. Now, Irenaeus assures us, Polycarp always taught the Churches to Observe those things which he learned from the Apostles themselves, and nothing else.
Some of the more famous Divines, at the first Settlement of these Churches, publickly declared, themselves, for the Affirmative of the Question. And long after them, Dr. Goodwin gave it under his Hand, with an, Ita sentio, ita sensi; That every true Minister, actually such to his own Church, is Medium Applicabile, an Instrument ⟨p. 136⟩that may apply to any Ministerial Act out of his own Church, in any other Church, if he be there unto called by them. Yea, when Polycarp, a Scholar of the Apostle John, and one Ordained (as Jerom, and Eusebius and others testify) by the Apostles themselves, came from Smyrna to Rome, for the Composing of some Differences, Anicetus the Pastor of the Church there, to express his Love and Honour for him, requested him to administer the Eucharist unto the Church, where he now appeared but as a Traveller; and, he did it. Now, Irenaeus assures us, Polycarp always taught the Churches to Observe those things which he learned from the Apostles themselves, and nothing else.