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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.
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Print source: 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.
Colman, Benjamin, 1673-1747., Pemberton, Ebenezer, 1672-1717., Woodbridge, Timothy, 1656-1732., Bradstreet, Simon, 1671-1741.
[New York]: Printed [by William Bradford], 1700.
Subject terms:
Mather, Increase, 1639-1723. -- Order of the Gospel.
New England -- Church history.
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ERRATA.
The Epistle Dedicatory, To the Churches of Christ in N. England.
Gospel Order Revived, &c.
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•. 5. Hath t 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 of New-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 the Lords Prayer?
Qu. 17. May the Churches under the Presbyterian and Congrega∣tional Discipline maintain Communion with one another, notwithstanding their different Sentiments, as Church Government?
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