An Inquiry Into the Right to Change the Ecclesiastical Constitution of the Congregational Churches of Massachusetts (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Right to Change the Ecclesiastical Constitution of the Congregational Churches of Massachusetts The signatures, and the fact that the Proposals received the approbation of the Convention of Ministers, were omitted by Mr. Wise, in bis publication, and appeared in print for the first time, in the Minutes of this Association. The Proposals embraced under the first Division, recommending the formation of Associations, and suggesting their appropriate duties, it appears were so far regarded, as that twenty years after, "the country was full of Associations, formed by the pastors in their several vicinities. for the prosecution of evangelical purposes." The Proposals under the second Division, recommending the Consociation of the pastors and Churches, and forming them into standing ecclesiastical Councils, for certain purposes therein stated, were (as Dr. C. Mather informs us, in his Ratio Disciplinæ, published in 1726) substantially adopted, at the time, in Connecticut, and have ever since formed the basis of their ecclesiastical proceedings. In Massachusetts the same writer states, that "there were some very considerable persons among the ministers, as well as of the brethren, who thought the liberties of particular Churches to be in danger of being limited and infringed in them. In deference to these, (he adds) the proposals were never prosecuted beyond the bounds of mere proposals." Your Committee, in this place, take leave, in fulfilment of a part of the duty assigned them, to stale, that the Proposals last alluded to are, in various respects such, that in their opnion congregational ministers cannot consistently recommend or approve them. They forbear to enlarge on this subject, and beg leave to refer to the plan submitted at the close of this report, as containing the deliberate views of the Committee. Further light, your Committee conceive, may be thrown on the history of the Document in question, by a recurrence to its origin and design, which may be inferred from its introductory sentence - "To serve the great intentions of Religion, which is lamentably decaying in the country." Viewing, as it appears they did, with deep concern, a visible decline in the order, discipline, purity, and fruitfulness of the Churches, the body of the Clergy of that day, devised the means suggested in the Proposals in question, as the best remedy against existing evils. The principal cause, of this lamentable decay of religion, in the view of the framers of these Proposals, may be inferred from the remedies which they propose for their removal; and from a paper annexed to this report, published about the year 1700. Among the most operative of these causes appear to have been laxness in discipline, and a growing defect in the fellowship, union and co-operation among the Churches and their pastors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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