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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 Churches make a Difference between Taking a Time to Do a Sacred Work; and the Doing a Work to keep a Sacred Time. To esteem any Good Work the better for its being done on such or such a Return of a Time, which GOD has not in His Word set apart for it, is to make the Time itself a part of the Worship; and they judge it an unwarrantable thing, for Men so to impose upon Heaven, with their own Inventions.
The Churches look upon Solemn HUMILIATIONS and THANKSGIVINGS, as Moral Duties, to be observed Pro Causis et Temporibus: And therefore they regard the Directions of Divine Providence, in laying before them the fresh Occasions thereof; which could not so well be done, if they were made perpetual.
The Churches look upon Solemn HUMILIATIONS and THANKSGIVINGS, as Moral Duties, to be observed Pro Causis et Temporibus: And therefore they regard the Directions of Divine Providence, in laying before them the fresh Occasiens thereof; which could not so well be done, if they were made perpetual.
In the Beginning of the Year the GOVERNOR with the Advice of the Council, (& sometimes also at the Motion of the Representatives) publishes a Proclamation directing such a Day, as he with them thinks fit, for Solemn Humiliations, with Prayer and Fasting, to obtain a Blessing on the Affairs of the Year ensuing.
In the Beginning of the Year the GOVERNOUR with the Advice of the Council, (& sometimes also at the Motion of the Representatives) publishes a Proclamation directing such a Day, as he with them thinks fit, for Solemn Humiliations, with Prayer and Fasting, to obtain a Blessing on the Affairs of the Year ensuing.