• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: A vindication of the government of New-England churches : Drawn from antiquity; the light of nature; Holy Scripture; it's noble nature; and from the dignity Divine Providence has put upon it. By John Wise, A.M. Pastor to a church in Ipswich. [Five lines of Scripture texts
  • Contributor: Wise, John [Author]; Boyle, John [Other]; Higginson, John [Other]; Higginson, John [Other]; White, John [Other]; Wise, John [Other]; Hubbard, William [Other]; Hubbard, William [Other]
  • Event: Cambridge Synod Reforming Synod
  • Published: Boston: Printed and sold by John Boyles, in Marlboro'-Street, MDCCLXXII. [1772]
    Online-Ausg., Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Extent: Online-Ressource (271,[13]p); 4°
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Church polity ; Congregational churches New England Government ; Local councils of churches
  • Reproduction series: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
  • Origination:
  • 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. .."--p. [233]-271, with separate title page
    "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 8th month, anno 1648. .."--p. [181]-231, with separate title page
    "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. 68-74; signed: John Higginson. William Hubbard
    "The churches quarrel espoused: or, A reply in satyr, to certain proposals made, in answer to this question,--What further steps are to be taken, that the councils may have due constitution and efficacy in supporting, preserving, and well-ordering the interest of the churches in the country? By John Wise .."--p. [75]-180, with separate title page. Includes "an extract from a book intituled, New-England's lamentations, wrote by the Reverend Mr. John White .. inserted at the request of a number of the subscribers." -
    English Short Title Catalog, W2448
    Evans, 12626
    List of subscribers, p. [273-284]
    Reproduction of original from Library of Congress
    Sabin, 104901
    The second Boyle edition of 1772. Cf. Evans 12625