N02341:96
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.
§. 4. Now they proceed unto a Salary, to be offered unto the Minister, whom they have chosen. [To which there is usually added somewhat also, which they call, A Settlement, in order to some Subsistence of his Family, in Case he die among them.] This no doubt, will be moderate enough: But such as they may think will suffice a Divine of that Order, which Erasmus has described in his Preface to his New Testament. Is mihi THEOLOGUS est, qui non Syllogismis Arte contortis, sed Affectu, sed ipso Vultu atque Oculis, sed ipsa Vita doceat, aspernandas esse opes Christiano, non esse fidendum hujus Mundi Praesidiis, sed totum oportere pendere de Caelo.
§. 4. Now they proceed unto a Salary, to be offered unto the Minister, whom they have chosen. [To which there is usually added somewhat also, which they call, A Settlement, in order to some Subsistence of his Family, in Case he dy among them.] This no doubt, will be moderate enough: But such as they may think will suffice a Divine of that Order, which Erasmus has described in his Preface to his New Testament. Is mihi THEOLOGUS est, qui non Syllogismis Arte contortis, sed Affectu, sed ipso Vultu atque Oculis, sed ipsa Vita doceat, aspernandas esse opes Christiano, non esse fidendum hujus Mundi Praesidiis, sed totum oportere pendere de Caelo.
There have too frequently all along been culpable Proceedings, and a Withholding of more than is meet, in the Churches under the Dispensation of the New Testament; relating to this Affair: And they that have abhorred Idols, have yet committed Sacrilege. Besides more early Reservations of the Church-Stock, only ΤΟΙΣ ΔΕΟΜΕΝΟΙΣ, Chrysostom tells us, that in Elections, those of the Competitors that had Estates of their own carried it, because the Churches would save the Charges of maintaining them. Yea, some Councils expressly, and sinfully enough, provided, That Ministers, tho' learned Men, should subsist themselves on some honest Employment, with a Proviso, which 'tis a Wonder how any Wise Men could propose it, That it be no Prejudice to their Office. And how strait handed this way many Professors ⟨p. 20⟩of Religion in the Churches of the Reformation have been, hath been known and felt, and thousands of times complained of.