A platform of church-discipline
Subtitle: 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
Contributors: Mather, Richard, 1596-1669; Winslow, Edward, 1595-1655; Cotton, John, 1584-1652
Publisher: Printed in New-England; and reprinted in London for Peter Cole, at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil, near the Royal Exhcange [sic]
Published: 1653
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 29
Subjects: Congregational churches; Councils and synods; Church and state; Church polity; Church history; Booksellers' catalogs; Cambridge Synod (1646-1648 : Cambridge, Mass.). Cambridge platform
Other titles: Platform of church discipline.
Work titles: Cambridge platform
Notes: First printed Cambridge [Mass.], 1649.

The Cambridge platform was a written codification of New England Congregational church government produced by the Cambridge Synod (1646-1648). Written largely by Richard Mather and first printed in Cambridge [Mass.], 1649, it was read aloud before each congregation, which voted to ratify the document. Cf. Dict. of Christianity in America.

"Epistle to the reader" signed on p. [4], 1st count: Edw. Winslow.

"The preface", p. 1-8, 2nd count, is by John Cotton.

Signatures: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) A² B⁴ (-B1) C-F⁴

Woodcut head pieces; initials.

Bookseller's advertisements: p. [5-6], 1st count.

Holmes, T.J. Minor Mathers, 51c.5

Wing, D.G. Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 (2nd ed. 1994), P2398.

Brown, J.C. Bibliotheca Americana, II:562.

Brown, J.C. Bibliotheca Americana (1875-1882 edition), II:759.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island II:432.

European Americana 653/34.

English short title catalogue R206993.

Purchase; 1846; 0760.