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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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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 IX. Of COUNCILS upon Emergencies.
§. 1. THE Case may be so that a Person may be oppressed by unjust Passion and Prejudice, and have a Censure unjustly passed upon him. In this Case, the Churches of New-England, have a Remedy for Oppression, that is to say, A COUNCIL; the Methods whereof are now to be declared.
Tho' the Churches of New-England have been called Independents, they have not yet arrived unto the Degree of Independency, which was challenged in the Days of Austin; Habet omnis Episcopus pro licentiâ Potestatis et Libertatis suae Arbitrium proprium; Judicari ab alio non potest, quomodo nec ipse Judicure; sed expectemus universi Judicium Christi, qui solus habet de actu nostro Judicandi potestatem.
The Person aggrieved applies himself to the Pastor, and by him to the Church, with humble Remonstrances of the Hardships which he apprehends used upon him; desiring them to Review his Case: And if this don't obtain, then to accommodate him in calling a Council of Neighbour Churches, (chosen with mutual Satisfaction,) to judge of the Proceedings.