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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.
Nevertheless, there have been formerly some Cases wherein it has been sound necessary to call New Councils, for further Deliberations upon Things, which the First had not sufficiently and successfully determined.
There are many Circumstantials in Church-Order, wherein the Churches do leave one another so Free, that the Councils never find it worth the while to infringe that Freedom; and they see no Inconvenience in that Indulgence, which the old African Synod in their Letter to the more imposing Stephen pleaded for; †That Pastors may without Offence to their Neighbours, or any ⟨p. 172⟩Breach upon Concord, have some things proper to themselves; in which they shall owe no Account of their Administration, but unto the Lord.
There are many Circumstantials in Church-Order, wherein the Churches do leave one another so Free, that the Councils never find it worth the while to infringe that Freedom; and they see no Inconvenience in that Indulgence, which the old Affricon Synod in their Letter to the more imposing Stephen pleaded for; †That Pastors may without Offence to their Neighbours, or any ⟨p. 172⟩Breach upon Concord, have some things proper to themselves; in which they shall owe no Account of their Administration, but unto the Lord.
- †Scimus quosdam, quod semel imbiberint, nolle deponere, nec Propositum suum facile mutant: Sed salvo inter Collegas Pacis et Concordiae Vincul•, quaedam propris, quae apud se semel sunt usurpata, retinere; Qua in re, nec nos Vim cuiquam sacimus, aut Legem damus; cum habear in Ecclesiae Administration Voluntatis suae Arbitrium Liberum, unusquisqve Praepsitus, Rationem Actus sai Domino redditurus.