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 ...S. Gerrish in Cornhill, 1726 - 217 страници |
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Страница 49 - ... has enabled them to gush out upon the attentive auditory, with a mighty stream of devout and unaffected eloquence. When a man so qualified, endued with learning too, and, above all, adorned...
Страница 10 - God in all the duties of a godly, and a sober, and a righteous life ; and very particularly in the Duties of a church state, and a Body of people associated for an obedience to him, in all the ordinances of the gospel: and we thereupon depend upon his gracious assistances for our faithful discharge of the duties thus incumbent on us.
Страница 175 - ... of New England know no Weapons but what are purely Spiritual. They pretend unto no Juridical Power; nor any significancy, but what is meerly Instructive and Suasory. They are nothing but some Wise and Good Men meeting together to advise the Churches how to observe the Rules of the most Inoffensive Piety. When they have done all, the Churches are at Liberty to judge how fur their Advice is to be followed...
Страница 10 - ... and would choose the things that please him. " We declare our serious belief of the Christian Religion, as contained in the sacred Scriptures, and with such a view thereof as the Confession of Faith in our churches has exhibited ; heartily resolving to conform our lives unto the rules of that holy religion as long as we live in the world.
Страница 186 - There were some very considerable persons among the ministers, as well as of the brethren, who thought the liberties of particular churches to be in danger of being limited and infringed by its adoption. In deference to these, the proposals were never prosecuted beyond the bounds of. mere proposals.
Страница 73 - We give up ourselves anew to the blessed Jesus, who is the Lord Jehovah, and adhere to Him, as the head of his people in the covenant of grace, and rely on Him as our prophet, priest, and king, to bring us unto eternal blessedness.
Страница 10 - We desire and intend, and (with dependence on his promised and powerful grace) we engage, to walk together as a church of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Faith and order of the gospel, so far as we shall have the same revealed unto us : conscientiously attending the...
Страница 10 - Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and avouch Him this Day to be our God, our Father, our Saviour, and our Leader, and receive Him as our portion forever. "We give up ourselves...