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Cotton, John [Other]; Mather, Richard [Other] ; Cambridge Synod (1646-1648 :Cambridge, Mass.), Reforming Synod, Cambridge Synod 1646-1648 Cambridge, Mass, Reforming Synod 1679-1680 Boston, Mass

A platform of church discipline

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: A platform of church discipline : gathered out of the word of God, and agreed upon by the elders and messengers of the churches assembled in the Synod at Cambridge, in New-England: to be presented to the churches and General Court, for their consideration and acceptance in the Lord, the eighth month, anno 1648. ; [Six lines from Psalms]
  • Work titles: Cambridge platform
  • Contributor: Cotton, John [Other]; Mather, Richard [Other]
  • Corporation: Reforming Synod
  • Event: Cambridge Synod Reforming Synod
  • Published: Boston: Printed and sold by Belcher and Armstrong, Suffolk Buildings, State Street, 1808
  • Published in: Early American Imprints. Series II : Shaw/Shoemaker 1801-1819
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text); 19 cm
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Congregational churches Controversial literature ; Congregational churches New England ; New England Church history
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  • Footnote: "A confession of faith, owned and consented unto by the elders and messengers of the churches assembled at Boston in New-England, May 12, 1680. Being the second session of that synod."--36 p., 2nd count, with separate title page. Recorded by Shaw & Shoemaker as an integral part of thePlatform of church discipline (14761) as well as separately at number 14760
    "A testimony to the order of the Gospel, in the churches of New-England: left in the hands of the churches, by the two most aged ministers of the Gospel yet surviving in the country."--p. 66-69. Signed: John Higginson. William Hubbard. Followed by a postscript, p. 69-70, also signed by Higginson and Hubbard
    "Appendix. Being some collections for the information of those that are not acquainted with the principles and practices of the first and most eminent leaders in the churches of Christ in New-England."--p. [64]-65
    "The answer of the elders and other messengers of the churches, assembled at Boston, in the year 1662. To the questions propounded to them by order of the honorable General Court."--p. [71]-118
    Based on the draft prepared by Richard Mather. The preface is by John Cotton. Cf. Holmes, T.J. The Minor Mathers (Cambridge, Mass., 1940)
    Includes two blank leaves between p. 70 and [71]. Although the pagination is continuous, the gatherings switch from an alphabetic to a numerical notation at this point
    Shaw & Shoemaker, 14760
    Shaw & Shoemaker, 14761