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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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It will doubtless Hearten them, when they are told, That an Illustrious Minister of State, than whom, for Uncommon Erudition, as well as the other Accomplishments that may brighten a Man of Honour, our Nation has not [and perhaps never had!] a Greater; having had the State of this Country truly laid before him, he condescended so far as to write in these obliging Terms unto One of the New-English Divines• upon it; The Account of the State of your Country was very Acceptable to me; And wherein I can serve either It or You, I shall be always Ready. It is great Matter of Joy, that the Christian Religion and Learning, do make such considerable Advances in those Parts of the World; and indeed, wherever the Christian Religion is proposed in its Native Plainness, and Simplicity, it is most likely to succeed.
It will doubtless Hearten them, when they are told, That an Illustrious Minister of State, than whom, for Uncommon Erudition, as well as the other Accomplishments that may brighten a Man of Honour, our Nation has not [and perhaps never had!] a Greater; having had the State of this Country truly laid before him, he condescended so far as to write in these •bliging Terms unto One of the New-English Divines• upon it; The Account of the State of your Country was very Acceptable to me; And wherein I can serve either It or You, I shall be always Ready. It is great Matter of Joy, that the Christian Religion and Learning, do make such considerable Advances in those Parts of the World; and indeed, wherever the Christian Religion is proposed in its Native Plainness, and Simplicity, it is most likely to succeed.
After so Important a Smile upon them, they cannot but persuade themselves, that none but the Unreasonable Men that have no Faith, will go to disturb them, in the Peaceable Enjoyment of that Evangelical Church-State, for the sake of which they made a Peaceable Secession into what was then, a Great and a Terrible Wilderness. Yea, They Comfort themselves in some Expectation, that if their Methods and Customs be not any where else presently Conformed unto, yet so far as Reason comes to prevail