The Cambridge platform
Subtitle: a contemporary reader's edition
By: Peter Hughes, editor.
Contributors: Hughes, Peter, D. Min.
Publisher: Skinner House Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781558965379
Subjects: Congregational churches -- New England -- Government; Congregational churches -- New England -- Discipline
Table of contents: title: Editor's introduction / Peter Hughes; title: Historical context / Alice Blair Wesley; title: Of the form of church government and that it is one; title: Immutable, and prescribed in the Word of God; title: Of the nature of the catholic church in general, and in special, of a particular visible church; title: Of the matter of the visible church both in respect of quality and quantity; title: Of the form of a visible church and of church covenant; title: Of the first subject of church power or, to whom church power doth first belong; title: Of the officers of the church, and especially of pastors and teachers; title: Of ruling elders and deacons; title: Of the election of church officers; title: Of ordination and imposition of hands; title: Of the power of the church and its presbytery; title: Of the maintenance of church officers; title: Of admission of members into the church; title: Of church members, their removal from one church to another, and of letters of recommendation and dismission; title: Of excommunication and other censures; title: Of the communion of churches one with another; title: Of synods; title: Of the civil magistrate's power in matters ecclesiastical.