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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.
Pliny the Governor of Bithynia relates, in his Letter to the Emperor [which our Tertullian also refers to,] That some Renegado Christians, being Examined about the secret, but sacred Conventicles of the Faithful in those Primitive Times, confessed no worse of them than this; That they entered into a COVENANT, †To do no dishonest Thing in the World.
Pliny the Governour of Bithynia relates, in his Letter to the Emperor [which our Tertullian also refers to,] That some Renegado Christians, being Examined about the secret, but sacred Conventicles of the Faithful in those Primitive Times, confessed no worse of them than this; That they entred into a COVENANT, †To do no dishonest Thing in the World.
- †Ne Furta, ne Latrocinia, ne Adulteria committerent, ne Fidem fallerent, ne depositum abnegarent.
In the Apology of Justin Martyr, who lived within a few Years of the Apostles themselves, we find the Christians who were admitted into Church-Fellowship, agreeing in a Resolution to conform in all Things to the Word of GOD: Which seems to be as truly a Church-Covenant, as any in the Churches of New-England.
And these Churches hope that they shall not hear that Reproached as a New Invention, which was practised in the Second and Third Centuries.