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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 find the Person to have suffered Palpable Injury, they endeavour to convince the Church of it, and advise them to restore the Injured Person unto his former Station.
They Order that if the Church do refuse this, (or; do refuse to give the Council an Account of the Matter; A thing that perhaps never happened!) the Person be admitted into some other Church of the Neighbourhood, and so unto Communion with them all.
The Church persisting in their Irregularity, they run the hazard of a Proceeding which never was (above once!) come into; That is, that the Council communicating the true State of the Case unto the Churches that sent them, and obtaining from them a Ratification of their Judgment, they do by a Solemn Act, Withdraw Communion from that Church, or from as many in it, as will go on to abet and maintain the Unjust Censure which has been passed in it. But, Blessed be the Glorious Head of the Church! The Interposition of His Holy SPIRIT working on the Minds of His People, while they are in His Way thus waiting on Him, still obtains the Ends which they aim at, and prevents any such dreadful Extremities.
The Church persisting in their Irregularity, they run the hazard of a Proceeding which never was (above once!) come into; That is, that the Council communicating the true State of the Case unto the Churches that sent them, and obtaining from them a Ratification of their Judgment, they do by a Solemn Act, Withdraw Communion from that Church, or from as many in it, as will go on to abett and maintain the Unjust Censure which has been passed in it. But, Blessed be the Glorious Head of the Church! The Interposition of His Holy SPIRIT working on the Minds of His People, while they are in His Way thus waiting on Him, still obtains the Ends which they aim at, and prevents any such dreadful Extremities.