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- catalog contributor b2669740.
- catalog contributor b2669741.
- catalog created "1829.".
- catalog date "1829".
- catalog date "1829.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1829.".
- catalog description "Early Congregational views of ministerial removals -- Treatises or authorities on this subject -- 1st class of cases, justifying a minister's removal -- 2nd class of cases, authorized removal -- Other occasions, authorising a minister's departure -- Advice of a council necessary in the removal of a minister -- Testimonies in favor of the preceding principle -- Of the classing, and the nature of the council -- Proceedings of the dismissing council -- Recommendation of pastors regularly dismissed -- XIV. Disciplining and deposing of a minister -- Of the necessity of some means of discipling ministers -- The minister amenable to his church -- Evidence of such accountability from the scriptures -- Note: On the practice of the primitive churches -- Methods or process of disciplining a minister -- Further considerations on this subject -- Advice of council in the discipline of pastor -- Proceedings and results of the council -- Of the testimony adduced against a pastor -- ".
- catalog description "Form of excommunication, from the same".
- catalog description "I. Origin of churches -- General nature of a church -- Reasons tending to the introduction of a church state -- Light of nature in reference to the subject -- Of an objection sometimes made -- Of man as a religious being -- Of man as a social being -- Social religious worship deduced from the light of nature -- Of the need of revelation -- Authority, etc. for a church state in the New Testament -- General internal constitution of a church -- Characteristics of a true church -- Concluding remarks, etc. -- II. Congregational churches -- Of the visible and invisible church -- No immutable form prescribed to the visible church -- Varieties of form and sects -- Foundation or authorities of the Congregational system -- Fundamental principles of the Congregationalists -- Remarks on the preceding general principles -- Facts on the origin of Congregational churches -- Of the name, independents, sometimes given -- Origin and import of the name, Congregationalists -- views of Congregationalists in respect to the primitive churches -- Of the churches immediately after the Apostolic age -- III. Gathering of churches -- Duty of Christians to enter into a church state -- Qualifications of church members -- Testimonies of Congregational writers on this subject -- Numbers requisite for a church gathering -- Of articles of belief -- Of the covenant and grounds of the same -- Covenants authorized by scripture -- Sentiments of the primitive and of foreign churches -- Method of proceeding; day of prayer, etc. -- Assistance from the neighboring churches -- Note: Forms of letter missive -- Of the public religious exercises -- Forms of church articles and covenants".
- catalog description "IV. Church officers -- Need of officers in the church shown from the light of nature -- Note: Writings, etc., of Mr. John Cotton -- Church officers recognized in the scriptures -- Number of officers in Congregational churches. Ruling elders -- Further remarks on the office of ruling elders -- Office of deacons -- Duties of deacons -- Further remarks on the duties of deacons -- Induction of deacons into office -- Office of minister or pastor -- Distinction of ministers or elders into teaching or pastoral -- Duties of minister -- Note: On the mode of preaching -- Duties of a pastor further considered -- Of committees of laymen for religious purposes -- Duties of the brotherhood -- V. Admission of members -- Of the character of those who are to be admitted -- Claims of right of such to admission -- Statements of personal religious experience -- Grounds or reasons of the foregoing practice -- Examination of persons coming from other churches -- Of admissions in reference to the right of voting -- Propounding and concluding ceremony of admitting -- VI. Choice and call of a pastor -- Of the internal or personal call of a minister -- External call or call from the church -- Church precedence in the call of a pastor, and grounds of it -- The precedence of the church in the pastoral call a natural right -- Founded also on scripture authority and example -- Necessary to the maintenance of purity in the ministry -- The church has no coercive power over the parish -- Grounds of the reference of the choice to the parish or society -- The concurrent action of the two a matter of agreement -- Of the support of the minister -- Form of the call or invitation".
- catalog description "Of ordaining for distant churches at the invitation of the same -- Ordination of missionaries to the heathen -- Certain early instances of missionary ordination -- This practice a security to the heathen themselves -- Its consistency with the church's right of election -- Historical facts illustrative of the practice -- Formation of the council -- Council's proceedings and religious exercises -- IX. Of church censures and excommunication -- Design or object of church censures -- Of suspension and excommunication when the offense is private -- Punishment of public and know offenses -- Note: On the duty of pastors in respect to public scandals -- Of the proper spirit or temper in dealing with offenders -- Treatment and right of the excommunicate -- Restoration of the offender on repentance -- Of immediate separation from corrupt or scandalous churches -- Of refusing to attend the sacrament and scandalous persons -- Forms of suspension, from Mather's discipline -- ".
- catalog description "Of the deposed minister's relation to the church -- Subordinate means of pastoral discipline -- Duty of neighboring churches in the case of neglecting discipline -- Further proceedings of such churches in the above case".
- catalog description "Part Second: Confession of faith -- Of the holy scripture -- Of God and of the Holy Trinity -- Of God's eternal decree -- Of creation -- Of providence -- Of the fall of man, of sin, and of punishment thereof -- Of God's covenant with man -- Of Christ the Mediator -- Of free will -- Of effectual calling -- Of justification -- Of adoption -- Of sanctification -- Of saving faith -- Of repentance unto life and salvation -- Of good works -- Of the perseverance of the saints -- Of the assurance of grace and salvation -- Of the law of God -- Of the gospel and of the extent of the grace thereof -- Of Christian liberty, and liberty of conscience -- Of religious worship and of the Sabbath day -- Of lawful oaths and vows -- Of the civil magistrate -- Of marriage -- Of the church -- Of the communion of saints -- Of the sacraments -- Of baptism -- Of the Lord's Supper -- Of the state of man after death, and of the resurrection of the dead -- Of the Last Judgment -- Appendix: -- I. Congregational and Presbyterian heads of agreement -- II. Saybrook Articles -- III. Legal rights of churches and parishes.".
- catalog description "VII. Ordination of the pastor -- Of the necessity and authority of ordination -- Of the meaning and comparative importance of ordination -- Remarks on the early practice of the churches -- Ordaining councils the representatives of the churches -- Note: Form of letter missive -- Reasons for calling the neighboring churches to the council -- Of the admission of lay-members or delegates sent -- Preparatory proceedings of the council -- Further proceedings of the council -- Ordaining prayer -- Import of the imposition of hands -- Of the object and manner of the charge -- Of giving the right hand of fellowship -- Spirit of the hand of fellowship and closing services -- Installation of a minister -- Accountability of delegates and ministers to the churches -- Of the members of a council substituting others in their stead -- Of inviting others to sit as members, who are not chosen by the churches -- VIII. Ordination of missionaries -- Occasions and need of missionary ordination -- ".
- catalog description "X. Transference of relationship -- Nature and obligation of the church covenant -- The church to be consulted in cases of proposed removal -- Of sinful and of doubtful cases of departure -- Just or sufficient reasons of removal -- Persons dismissed are to receive letters of dismissal -- Of letters of recommendation without dismissing -- XI. Pastoral associations -- Origin of pastoral associations -- Objects of pastoral associations -- General or state associations -- Objects and religious exercises of general associations -- Relation of clerical associations to the rights of churches -- XII. Of licensing to preach -- Early views of the churches in respect to preachers -- Imperfect arrangements on this subject -- Associations authorized to license preachers -- Of the examination previous to licensing -- length of time for which licenses are granted -- Form of the license -- Of annulling or revoking licenses -- XIII. Removal of ministers -- ".
- catalog description "XV. Councils -- Acts of communion according to the Synod of 1662 -- Of the obligation of churches to seek advice -- Of the persons composing councils -- Ancient testimonies on this subject -- Of those who have the right of calling councils -- Ancient testimonies on this subject -- Of those who have the right of calling councils -- Obligation of the churches to regard letters missive -- Of the feelings with which councils should be summoned -- Principles on which councils are to decide -- Of the weight due to the advice of councils -- Advice of councils in matters merely prudential -- Advice in matters of conscience -- XVI. Mutual councils -- Occasions of calling mutual councils -- Practice in selecting the council and letter missive -- Mutual councils representative of all the churches -- Mutual councils are ultimate tribunals -- Consociated or permanent mutual councils -- Of the authority or powers of consociations -- historical remarks on consociations -- Objections to permanent or consociated councils -- Objections to councils, which are not permanent -- Of the progress and improvement of the Congregational system -- XVIII. Ex-parte councils -- Of the nature of ex-parte councils -- Circumstances that warrant an aggrieved person or persons in calling an ex-parte council -- Duty of the churches, summoned to an ex-parte council -- An ex-parte allowable only on the refusal of a mutual council -- Proceedings of ex-parte councils -- Further proceedings of the same -- Proceedings of the ex-parte council in relation to the church -- Object and necessity of ex-parte councils -- The necessity of them superseded by consociations".
- catalog description "XVIII. Synods -- Nature of synods and scripture grounds of the same -- Powers and authority of synods -- Of the members of synods and the calling of the same -- Historical notices of synods -- Note: On the authority of the Cambridge Platform -- Synodical decisions persuasive or advisory -- XIX. Discipline of whole churches -- Congregational churches may discipline each other -- Method of discipline laid down in the Platform -- Treatment of unoffending members in a corrupt church -- XX. Baptism -- Significancy and subjects of baptism -- Method of proceeding at baptisms -- Mode of applying water in baptism -- Administration of adult baptism -- Relation of adult baptism to church membership -- Of the agent or administrator in baptism -- Of the right of a minister to baptize abroad -- Administration of baptism in private -- Infant baptism -- Relation of baptized children to the church -- Of the baptism of adopted children -- Duties of particular churches to their baptized children -- XXI. Half-way covenant -- Members and engagements entered into -- Origin of the practice of half-way covenanting -- Further remarks on the same subject -- Early opposition to the system of half-way covenanting -- Doings of the synod of 1662 on this subject -- Views of the objectors to the synod's articles -- Prevalence, results, and abandonment of the system -- XXII. The Lord's Supper -- Origin and permanency of the Lord's Supper -- Qualifications of those to be admitted -- Admission to the Eucharist, compared with admission to baptism -- Mode of administering the Lord's supper -- Right of a pastor to administer it in other churches -- Frequency of this ordinance -- Duty of the church to those who refuse to attend the Lord's supper from private prejudices -- The sacrament administered to members of other sects".
- catalog description "XXIII. Church conferences -- Of conferences as compared with other religious bodies -- Objects of church conferences -- Early views of Congregationalists on conferences -- Cotton's plan or proposition for conferences -- Recent attempts to establish conferences -- Of the permanent regulations or constitutions of conferences -- Method of organizing conferences -- Meetings and religious exercises -- XXIV. Worship and religious customs -- No time sacred but the Sabbath -- Form and ceremonies of worship -- Of places of worship and dedications of the same -- Custom in respect to ministerial exchanges -- Days of fasting and prayer, and of thanksgiving -- Of private religious meetings -- Of the custom of renewing covenant -- Form of the renewal of covenant".
- catalog extent "324 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Ratio discipline.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Ratio discipline.".
- catalog issued "1829".
- catalog issued "1829.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Portland, Shirley and Hyde,".
- catalog relation "Ratio discipline.".
- catalog subject "BX7240 .U7 1829".
- catalog subject "Congregational churches Catechisms English.".
- catalog subject "Congregational churches Catechisms and creeds English.".
- catalog subject "Congregational churches Creeds.".
- catalog subject "Congregational churches Government.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Early Congregational views of ministerial removals -- Treatises or authorities on this subject -- 1st class of cases, justifying a minister's removal -- 2nd class of cases, authorized removal -- Other occasions, authorising a minister's departure -- Advice of a council necessary in the removal of a minister -- Testimonies in favor of the preceding principle -- Of the classing, and the nature of the council -- Proceedings of the dismissing council -- Recommendation of pastors regularly dismissed -- XIV. Disciplining and deposing of a minister -- Of the necessity of some means of discipling ministers -- The minister amenable to his church -- Evidence of such accountability from the scriptures -- Note: On the practice of the primitive churches -- Methods or process of disciplining a minister -- Further considerations on this subject -- Advice of council in the discipline of pastor -- Proceedings and results of the council -- Of the testimony adduced against a pastor -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Form of excommunication, from the same".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. Origin of churches -- General nature of a church -- Reasons tending to the introduction of a church state -- Light of nature in reference to the subject -- Of an objection sometimes made -- Of man as a religious being -- Of man as a social being -- Social religious worship deduced from the light of nature -- Of the need of revelation -- Authority, etc. for a church state in the New Testament -- General internal constitution of a church -- Characteristics of a true church -- Concluding remarks, etc. -- II. Congregational churches -- Of the visible and invisible church -- No immutable form prescribed to the visible church -- Varieties of form and sects -- Foundation or authorities of the Congregational system -- Fundamental principles of the Congregationalists -- Remarks on the preceding general principles -- Facts on the origin of Congregational churches -- Of the name, independents, sometimes given -- Origin and import of the name, Congregationalists -- views of Congregationalists in respect to the primitive churches -- Of the churches immediately after the Apostolic age -- III. Gathering of churches -- Duty of Christians to enter into a church state -- Qualifications of church members -- Testimonies of Congregational writers on this subject -- Numbers requisite for a church gathering -- Of articles of belief -- Of the covenant and grounds of the same -- Covenants authorized by scripture -- Sentiments of the primitive and of foreign churches -- Method of proceeding; day of prayer, etc. -- Assistance from the neighboring churches -- Note: Forms of letter missive -- Of the public religious exercises -- Forms of church articles and covenants".
- catalog tableOfContents "IV. Church officers -- Need of officers in the church shown from the light of nature -- Note: Writings, etc., of Mr. John Cotton -- Church officers recognized in the scriptures -- Number of officers in Congregational churches. Ruling elders -- Further remarks on the office of ruling elders -- Office of deacons -- Duties of deacons -- Further remarks on the duties of deacons -- Induction of deacons into office -- Office of minister or pastor -- Distinction of ministers or elders into teaching or pastoral -- Duties of minister -- Note: On the mode of preaching -- Duties of a pastor further considered -- Of committees of laymen for religious purposes -- Duties of the brotherhood -- V. Admission of members -- Of the character of those who are to be admitted -- Claims of right of such to admission -- Statements of personal religious experience -- Grounds or reasons of the foregoing practice -- Examination of persons coming from other churches -- Of admissions in reference to the right of voting -- Propounding and concluding ceremony of admitting -- VI. Choice and call of a pastor -- Of the internal or personal call of a minister -- External call or call from the church -- Church precedence in the call of a pastor, and grounds of it -- The precedence of the church in the pastoral call a natural right -- Founded also on scripture authority and example -- Necessary to the maintenance of purity in the ministry -- The church has no coercive power over the parish -- Grounds of the reference of the choice to the parish or society -- The concurrent action of the two a matter of agreement -- Of the support of the minister -- Form of the call or invitation".
- catalog tableOfContents "Of ordaining for distant churches at the invitation of the same -- Ordination of missionaries to the heathen -- Certain early instances of missionary ordination -- This practice a security to the heathen themselves -- Its consistency with the church's right of election -- Historical facts illustrative of the practice -- Formation of the council -- Council's proceedings and religious exercises -- IX. Of church censures and excommunication -- Design or object of church censures -- Of suspension and excommunication when the offense is private -- Punishment of public and know offenses -- Note: On the duty of pastors in respect to public scandals -- Of the proper spirit or temper in dealing with offenders -- Treatment and right of the excommunicate -- Restoration of the offender on repentance -- Of immediate separation from corrupt or scandalous churches -- Of refusing to attend the sacrament and scandalous persons -- Forms of suspension, from Mather's discipline -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Of the deposed minister's relation to the church -- Subordinate means of pastoral discipline -- Duty of neighboring churches in the case of neglecting discipline -- Further proceedings of such churches in the above case".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part Second: Confession of faith -- Of the holy scripture -- Of God and of the Holy Trinity -- Of God's eternal decree -- Of creation -- Of providence -- Of the fall of man, of sin, and of punishment thereof -- Of God's covenant with man -- Of Christ the Mediator -- Of free will -- Of effectual calling -- Of justification -- Of adoption -- Of sanctification -- Of saving faith -- Of repentance unto life and salvation -- Of good works -- Of the perseverance of the saints -- Of the assurance of grace and salvation -- Of the law of God -- Of the gospel and of the extent of the grace thereof -- Of Christian liberty, and liberty of conscience -- Of religious worship and of the Sabbath day -- Of lawful oaths and vows -- Of the civil magistrate -- Of marriage -- Of the church -- Of the communion of saints -- Of the sacraments -- Of baptism -- Of the Lord's Supper -- Of the state of man after death, and of the resurrection of the dead -- Of the Last Judgment -- Appendix: -- I. Congregational and Presbyterian heads of agreement -- II. Saybrook Articles -- III. Legal rights of churches and parishes.".
- catalog tableOfContents "VII. Ordination of the pastor -- Of the necessity and authority of ordination -- Of the meaning and comparative importance of ordination -- Remarks on the early practice of the churches -- Ordaining councils the representatives of the churches -- Note: Form of letter missive -- Reasons for calling the neighboring churches to the council -- Of the admission of lay-members or delegates sent -- Preparatory proceedings of the council -- Further proceedings of the council -- Ordaining prayer -- Import of the imposition of hands -- Of the object and manner of the charge -- Of giving the right hand of fellowship -- Spirit of the hand of fellowship and closing services -- Installation of a minister -- Accountability of delegates and ministers to the churches -- Of the members of a council substituting others in their stead -- Of inviting others to sit as members, who are not chosen by the churches -- VIII. Ordination of missionaries -- Occasions and need of missionary ordination -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "X. Transference of relationship -- Nature and obligation of the church covenant -- The church to be consulted in cases of proposed removal -- Of sinful and of doubtful cases of departure -- Just or sufficient reasons of removal -- Persons dismissed are to receive letters of dismissal -- Of letters of recommendation without dismissing -- XI. Pastoral associations -- Origin of pastoral associations -- Objects of pastoral associations -- General or state associations -- Objects and religious exercises of general associations -- Relation of clerical associations to the rights of churches -- XII. Of licensing to preach -- Early views of the churches in respect to preachers -- Imperfect arrangements on this subject -- Associations authorized to license preachers -- Of the examination previous to licensing -- length of time for which licenses are granted -- Form of the license -- Of annulling or revoking licenses -- XIII. Removal of ministers -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "XV. Councils -- Acts of communion according to the Synod of 1662 -- Of the obligation of churches to seek advice -- Of the persons composing councils -- Ancient testimonies on this subject -- Of those who have the right of calling councils -- Ancient testimonies on this subject -- Of those who have the right of calling councils -- Obligation of the churches to regard letters missive -- Of the feelings with which councils should be summoned -- Principles on which councils are to decide -- Of the weight due to the advice of councils -- Advice of councils in matters merely prudential -- Advice in matters of conscience -- XVI. Mutual councils -- Occasions of calling mutual councils -- Practice in selecting the council and letter missive -- Mutual councils representative of all the churches -- Mutual councils are ultimate tribunals -- Consociated or permanent mutual councils -- Of the authority or powers of consociations -- historical remarks on consociations -- Objections to permanent or consociated councils -- Objections to councils, which are not permanent -- Of the progress and improvement of the Congregational system -- XVIII. Ex-parte councils -- Of the nature of ex-parte councils -- Circumstances that warrant an aggrieved person or persons in calling an ex-parte council -- Duty of the churches, summoned to an ex-parte council -- An ex-parte allowable only on the refusal of a mutual council -- Proceedings of ex-parte councils -- Further proceedings of the same -- Proceedings of the ex-parte council in relation to the church -- Object and necessity of ex-parte councils -- The necessity of them superseded by consociations".
- catalog tableOfContents "XVIII. Synods -- Nature of synods and scripture grounds of the same -- Powers and authority of synods -- Of the members of synods and the calling of the same -- Historical notices of synods -- Note: On the authority of the Cambridge Platform -- Synodical decisions persuasive or advisory -- XIX. Discipline of whole churches -- Congregational churches may discipline each other -- Method of discipline laid down in the Platform -- Treatment of unoffending members in a corrupt church -- XX. Baptism -- Significancy and subjects of baptism -- Method of proceeding at baptisms -- Mode of applying water in baptism -- Administration of adult baptism -- Relation of adult baptism to church membership -- Of the agent or administrator in baptism -- Of the right of a minister to baptize abroad -- Administration of baptism in private -- Infant baptism -- Relation of baptized children to the church -- Of the baptism of adopted children -- Duties of particular churches to their baptized children -- XXI. Half-way covenant -- Members and engagements entered into -- Origin of the practice of half-way covenanting -- Further remarks on the same subject -- Early opposition to the system of half-way covenanting -- Doings of the synod of 1662 on this subject -- Views of the objectors to the synod's articles -- Prevalence, results, and abandonment of the system -- XXII. The Lord's Supper -- Origin and permanency of the Lord's Supper -- Qualifications of those to be admitted -- Admission to the Eucharist, compared with admission to baptism -- Mode of administering the Lord's supper -- Right of a pastor to administer it in other churches -- Frequency of this ordinance -- Duty of the church to those who refuse to attend the Lord's supper from private prejudices -- The sacrament administered to members of other sects".
- catalog tableOfContents "XXIII. Church conferences -- Of conferences as compared with other religious bodies -- Objects of church conferences -- Early views of Congregationalists on conferences -- Cotton's plan or proposition for conferences -- Recent attempts to establish conferences -- Of the permanent regulations or constitutions of conferences -- Method of organizing conferences -- Meetings and religious exercises -- XXIV. Worship and religious customs -- No time sacred but the Sabbath -- Form and ceremonies of worship -- Of places of worship and dedications of the same -- Custom in respect to ministerial exchanges -- Days of fasting and prayer, and of thanksgiving -- Of private religious meetings -- Of the custom of renewing covenant -- Form of the renewal of covenant".
- catalog title "Ratio discipline, or, The constitution of the Congregational Churches.".
- catalog type "Quarter bindings (Binding) rbbin".
- catalog type "text".