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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.
ARTICLE II. The Ordaining of a PASTOR.
§. 1. WHEN a Church wants a PASTOR, they do first, by Prayer with Fasting, humbly supplicate our Ascended Redeemer, who giveth such Gifts unto Men, that He would give unto them, A Pastor, after His own Heart.
Then (except the Providence of Heaven have otherwise laid Prospects of Supplies before them,) upon Consultation with the Christian Inhabitants of the Town, ask Information from the Ministers in their Vicinity, or from the Governors of the College, What Young Men, may be most likely to be serviceable unto them. And being thus, or otherwise informed, the Committee whom the Church usually have to act on their behalf, in such an Affair, invite one or more of these Candidates, to preach a few Sermons among them.
Then (except the Providence of Heaven have otherwise laid Prospects of Supplies before them,) upon Consultation with the Christian Inhabitants of the Town, ask Information from the Ministers in their Vicinity, or from the Governours of the College, What Young Men, may be most likely to be serviceable unto them. And being thus, or otherwise informed, the Committee whom the Church usually have to act on their behalf, in such an Affair, invite one or more of these Candidates, to preach a few Sermons among them.