Gospel order revived being an answer to a book lately set forth by ... Increase Mather ... entituled, The order of the gospel, &c ... / by sundry ministers of the gospel in New England.
- Title
- Gospel order revived being an answer to a book lately set forth by ... Increase Mather ... entituled, The order of the gospel, &c ... / by sundry ministers of the gospel in New England.
- Publication
- [New York] :: Printed [by William Bradford],
- 1700.
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- Subject terms
- Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. -- Order of the Gospel.
- New England -- Church history.
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"Gospel order revived being an answer to a book lately set forth by ... Increase Mather ... entituled, The order of the gospel, &c ... / by sundry ministers of the gospel in New England." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34020.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.
Contents
- Advertisement.
- title page
- ERRATA.
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The Epistle Dedicatory, To the Churches of Christ inN. England. -
Gospel Order Revived, &c.
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Quest. 1. Whether particular Churches ought to consist of Saints and true Believers in Christ? -
Q 2. Whether there ought not to be a Tryal of Persons concerning their qualifications and fitness for Church communion, before they are admitted thereunto? -
Q 3 Whether are not the Brethren, and not the Elders of the Church only, to judge concerning the qualifications and fitness of those who art admitted into their Communion? -
Q. 4. Whether is it necessary tat Persons at their admission into the Church should make a publick relation of the time and manner of their Conversion? -
Q Hath t. 5. Church Covenant, as commonly practised in the Churches of New. England, any Scripture foundation? -
Q. 6. Is publick Reading of the Scriptures, without explication or ex∣hortation there-with, part of the Work incumbent on a Minister of the Gospel? -
Qu. 7. Is Baptism to be administred to all Children, whom any profes∣sing Christians shall engage to see educated in the Christian Religion? -
Qu. 8. Is Baptism in a private House, where there is no Church Assembly, allowable? -
Q. 9 Oght all that contribute towards the maintenance to have the privileage of voting in the Election of a Pastor? -
Qu. 10. Is it expedient that Churches should enter into a Consciation or Agreement that matters of more than ordinary ortance, such as the gathering a new Church, the Ordination, Deposition, or Translation of a Pastor, be done with common consent? -
Qu. 11. May the Brethren in Churches, and not the Pastors only, be sent unto, and have their Voice in Ecclesiastical Councils? -
Qu. 12. Doth the Essence of a Ministers Call consist in his being Ordained with the imposition of hands by other Ministers?Qu. 13. May a Men be ordained a Pastor, except to a particular, ana in the presence o that Church? -
Q. 14. Is the Practice of the Churches ofNew-England in granting Letters of Dismission or Recommendation from one Church to another, ac∣cording to Scripture, and the Example of other Churches? -
Qu. 15 Is not the asserting that a Pastor may administer the Sacra∣ment to another Church besides his own particular Church, at the afire of that other Church, a declension from the first principles of New-England, and of the Congregational way? -
Qu. 16. Is it a Duty for Christians in their Prayers, to make use of the words of that which is commonly called theLords Prayer? -
Qu. 17. May the Churches under thePresbyterian andCongrega∣tional Discipline maintain Communion with one another, notwithstanding their different Sentiments, asChurch Government? - conclusion
- Postscript.
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