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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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A Zeal of GOD, and the Spirit of the Gospel, operating in the Churches, has disposed them to make several noble Efforts, for the Propagation of (not Party, but Pure and Undefiled) Religion, ⟨p. 191⟩and the Gospelizing of Plantations which have been the Unwatered Places of the Wicked One. Generous Collections have been made in the Churches, to support the Expenses of sending Missionaries to such Places, and building Meeting-Houses in them. And the Gentlemen who Devise Liberal Things, have also more privately advanced Sums of Money on such Occasions and Intentions. Associated Pastors have been at the Head of these Actions; And the Success has not been Contemptible; tho' the Invisible Rulers of the Darkness of this World, have sensibly enough done their Part for the Clogging of such Undertakings.
A Zeal of GOD, and the Spirit of the Gospel, operating in the Churches, has disposed them to make several noble Efforts, for the Propagation of (not Party, but Pure and Undefiled) Religion, ⟨p. 191⟩and the Gospellizing of Plantations which have been the Unwatered Places of the Wicked One. Generous Collections have been made in the Churches, to support the Expences of sending Missionaries to such Places, and building Meeting-Houses in them. And the Gentlemen who Devise Liberal Things, have also more privately advanced Sums of Money on such Occasions and Intentions. Associated Pastors have been at the Head of these Actions; And the Success has not been Contemptible; tho' the Invisible Rulers of the Darkness of this World, have sensibly enough done their Part for the Clogging of such Undertakings.
There has been offered unto the Churches, A Proposal, for an EVANGELICAL TREASURY, to be Raised by Collections on the Days of Supplication, and of Thanksgiving (which are kept every Year) in the Congregations of the Country; and lodged in the Hands of Trustees, who are to lay it out still with the Knowledge and Consent of the Churches to which it belongs. The Principal Intention of it, The Propagation of Religion; especially when Good is to be done in Ungospellized Places; But also, For any Pious Uses, which any particular Church may see Cause to pursue, within their own Vicinity. The Proposal, is in the United Churches of Boston begun to be Prosecuted and Executed.