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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.
Such Proposals as these found in one of the New-English Colonies a more general Reception (and even a Countenance from the Civil Government) than in the Rest. In the other, there were some very considerable Persons among the Ministers, as well as of the Brethren, who thought the Liberties of particular Churches to be in danger of being too much limited and infringed in them. And in a Deference to these Good Men, the Proposals were never prosecuted, beyond the Bounds of mere Proposals. Accordingly the Churches go on in the Methods of which an Account was given, before the Introducing of these Proposals. And Humane Prudence being obliged thus to keep the Stops where it is, the SPIRIT of our SAVIOUR, so descends with His Operations, that Councils rarely miss of their desired Efficacy.
Such Proposals as these found in one of the New-English Colonies a more general Reception (and even a Countenance from the Civil Government) than in the Rest. In the other, there were some very considerable Persons among the Ministers, as well as of the Brethren, who thought the Liberties of particular Churches to be in danger of being too much limited and infringed in them. And in a Deference to these Good Men, the Proposals were never prosecuted, beyond the Bounds of meer Proposals. Accordingly the Churches go on in the Methods of which an Account was given, before the Introducing of these Proposals. And Humane Prudence being obliged thus to keep the Stops where it is, the SPIRIT of our SAVIOUR, so descends with His Operations, that Councils rarely miss of their desired Efficacy.
There was indeed a Satyr, Printed against these written Proposals, and against the Servants of GOD that made them. Nevertheless, those Followers of the Lamb, remembering the Maxim of, Not Answering, used the Conduct which the University of Helmstadt lately prescribed under ⟨p. 185⟩some Abuses put upon them; Visum est non alio Remedio quam generoso Silentio et pio Contemptu, utendum nobis esse.
There was indeed a Satyr, Printed against these written Proposals, and against the Servants of GOD that made them. Nevertheless, those Followers of the Lamb, remembring the Maxim of, Not Answering, used the Conduct which the University of Helmstadt lately prescribed under