A platform of church discipline : 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, the eighth month, anno 1648

Cambridge Synod, Richard Mather, John Cotton, Reforming Synod

Belcher and Armstrong, Suffolk Buildings, State Street., Boston, 1808

Bound in contemporary acid sheep.  Newton Theological stamps. Hardcover.  Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Based on the draft prepared by Richard Mather. The preface is by John Cotton. Cf. Holmes, T.J. The Minor Mathers (Cambridge, Mass., 1940).  "Appendix. Being some collections for the information of those that are not acquainted with the principles and practices of the first and most eminent leaders in the churches of Christ in New-England."--Page [64]-65.   "A testimony to the order of the Gospel, in the churches of New-England: left in the hands of the churches, by the two most aged ministers of the Gospel yet surviving in the country."--Page 66-69. Signed: John Higginson. William Hubbard. Followed by a postscript, p. 69-70, also signed by Higginson and Hubbard.  "The answer of the elders and other messengers of the churches, assembled at Boston, in the year 1662. To the questions propounded to them by order of the honorable General Court."--Page [71]-118"A confession of faith, owned and consented unto by the elders and messengers of the churches assembled at Boston in New-England, May 12, 1680. Being the second session of that synod."--36 p., 2nd count, with separate title page. Recorded by Shaw & Shoemaker as an integral part of the Platform of church discipline (14761) as well as separately at number 14760