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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.
As other extraordinary Occasions do occur, at any other time of the Year, the Civil Authority takes a like Notice of them.
And it is a very frequent thing, for particular Pastors with their Churches, to keep Solemn Days in their own Congregations, as they see Occasions for them; without any Direction from the Civil Authority. So Cyprian in a Time of Calamity; Ad placandum atque exorandum Dominum, saith he, Non Voce sola, sed et Jejuniis et Lacrymis, et omni genere Deprecationis ingemiscamus.
Yea, Sometimes the Pastors in a Vicinity agree to keep the Wheel of their Devotions in a continual Motion, by such Days kept successively in their several Congregations; wherein they enjoy much Communion with and Assistance from one another. Thus Tertullian tells, That in the Primitive Times, the Bishops did ordain Fasts for the Churches, ex aliqua Solicitudinis Ecclesiasticae Causa, according as the Troublesome Circumstances of the Church called for it.
Yea, Sometimes the Pastors in a Vicinity agree to keep the Wheel of their Devotions in a continual Motion, by such Days kept successively in their several Congregations; wherein they enjoy much Communion with and Assistence from one another. Thus Tertullian tells, That in the Primitive Times, the Bishops did ordain Fasts for the Churches, ex aliqua Solicitudinis Ecclesiasticae Causa, according as the Troublesome Circumstances of the Church called for it.