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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 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.
When Beloved Pastors have been taken Sick, their Churches, Visited and Affisted 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.
Some Churches blessed with excellent Pastors, have kept their Days of Thanksgiving for their Evangelical Enjoyments; [Assisted with Neighbouring Pastors, on these Occasions.] It has been very agreeable, to see with what Ingenuity the Humble and Modest Pastors have behaved themselves, when such Roses have been cast upon them. One by whom Cambridge was once illuminated, on such a Day, Preached on, 2 Cor. XII. 11. I am Nothing.
When Days of Humiliation or of Thanksgiving have been observed, it has been a frequent thing, for Collections of Money for Pious Uses to be made in the Assemblies; That so it might be said, Thy Prayers and thy Alms are come up for a Memorial before GOD.