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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.
The Council coming or the Spot, first choose their Moderator, and use […] other necessary Preliminaries; Whereupon •hey proceed unto as public an Hearing as they they can have, [namely in the Meeting-House,] of the things that are to come under their Examination; The Moderator ever beginning with Solemn Supplications.
The Council coming or the Spot, first chuse their Moderator, and use 〈…〉 other necessary Praeliminaries; Whereupon •hey proceed unto as publick an Hearing as they they can have, [namely in the Meeting-House,] of the things that are to come under their Examination; The Moderator ever beginning with Solemn Supplications.
Retiring then to the Place of their more private Entertainment, they there consider over again, all that has been laid before them. Every Member of the Council may with leave of the Moderator declare their Sentiments.
The Result is drawn up in a proper Instrument; wherein they first Report what they find, and then Advise what they would have to be done; usually fortifying their Advice with pertinent Passages of the Sacred Scriptures, annexed unto each of the Articles.