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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
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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.
Sometimes one particular Church, and sometimes a Number of Consociated Churches in a Neighbourhood successively, have set apart whole Days of Prayer, on this peculiar Intention; To pray for a Successful Ministry; and more particularly, to obtain it, that the Spirit of Grace would infuse a Principle of Piety, into the Hearts of the ⟨p. 190⟩Rising Generation, and by a mighty Effect of His Gospel upon them, render their Children a Pious Generation. A marvellous Efficacy of the Gospel in a Conversion of Young People unto serious Religion, and an Addition unto the Churches of them that shall be saved, have been observed among the Consequences of such an Action.
When Beloved Pastors have been taken Sick, their Churches, Visited and Assisted by the Neighbouring Pastors, have kept their Days of Prayer for them: And it has been rarely known, that such Pastors have not been remarkably Recovered. Solemn and public Thanksgivings have sometimes followed.