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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.
When a Council meets. their first Work is, to choose a Moderator; who, like Cyprian the Moderator ⟨p. 175⟩of the Council at Carthage; like Palmas the Prolocutor of the Synod in France; counts it his Duty from his Chair, to see all things calmly debated, and fairly concluded, and sum up all things, that have been deliberated, and call for the Votes of the Assembly, and begin and finish all with Supplications to Heaven. And sometimes like Theophilus and Narcissus, in a Synod of Palestine, there have been Two Moderators.
When a Council meets. their first Work is, to chuse a Moderator; who, like Cyprian the Moderator ⟨p. 175⟩of the Council at Carthage; like Palmas the Prolocutor of the Synod in France; counts it his Duty from his Chair, to see all things calmly debated, and fairly concluded, and sum up all things, that have been deliberated, and call for the Votes of the Assembly, and begin and finish all with Supplications to Heaven. And sometimes like The•philus and Narcissus, in a Synod of Pal•stine, there have been Two Moderators.
Tho' it has been strongly pleaded, that no Officers of the Churches have a Right upon that Score, to appear as their Delegates, but that the Churches may choose whom they please, for their Delegates, and the Delegates have all of them an equal Power in the Synod for which they are chosen: Yet the Churches do in Fact proceed no otherwise, than as if their Pastors were Ex Officio the Members of the Councils for which their Churches were sent unto. And in the Choice of Delegates for Councils, (as well as in the Call for them) still the Terms run, For Elders and Messengers.
Tho' it has been strongly pleaded, that no Officers of the Churches have a Right upon that Score, to appear as their Delegates, but that the Churches may chuse whom they please, for their Delegates, and the Delegates have all of them an equal Power in the Synod for which they are chosen: Yet the Churches do in Fact proceed no otherwise, than as if their Pastors were Ex Officio the Members of the Councils for which their Churches were sent unto. And in the Choice of Delegates for Councils, (as well as in the Call for them) still the Terms run, For Elders and Messengers.