A tryall of the nevv-church vvay in New-England and in old. Wherein are handled these questions following. 1. Whether a stinted forme ... be unlawfull. 2. Whether it be unlawfull to joyne ... where a stinted liturgie is used. 3. Whether the children ... be not to be baptized till their parents be set-members ... 4. Whether the parents ... ought not to be received ... untill they be first admitted ... 5. Whether the power of excommunication, &c. be so in the body of the church, ... 6. Whether those that are admitted ... ought not to depart ... 7. Whether a minister ... if they dislike, ... he utterly ceaseth to be a minister. 8. Whether a minister may not performe ... to another congregation ... 9. Whether members of one congregation, may not communicate in another. By that learned and godly ... John Ball, of Whitmore. Penned ... and sent over to the New England ministers, anno 1637. As a reply to an answer of theirs ... Now published ... by William Rathband and Simeon Ash.
Ball, John,1585-1640.
Rathband, William,-1695.
Ashe, Simeon,-1662.
London : printed by T. Paine and M. Simmons, for Thomas Underhill in Great Wood-street,
1644.
A reissue, with cancel title page, of: A letter of many minsters in old England, requesting the judgement of their reverend brethren in New England concerning nine positions. London, 1643.
Numerous errors in pagination.
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996),
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