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 at the churches and Generall Court for their consideration and acceptance, in the Lord. The eight moneth anno 1649 : [Seven lines from Psalms].

Format:

• Book
• Conference/Event

Contributor:

• Mather, Richard, 1596-1669.
• Cotton, John, 1584-1652.

Conference Name:

• Cambridge Synod (1646-1648 : Cambridge, Mass.)

Series:

• Early American imprints. First series ; no. 25.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Congregational churches--New England.
• Congregational churches--Controversial literature.
• Congregational churches.
• New England.
• New England--Church history.
• Church history.

Genre:

• Controversial literature.
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 unnumbered pages, 10, 29 pages, 3 unnumbered pages)

Place of Publication:

[Cambridge, Mass.] : Printed by S G [id est, Samuel Green] at Cambridge in New England and are to be sold at Cambridge and Boston, anno Dom: 1649.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

• Based on the draft prepared by Richard Mather. The preface is by John Cotton. See Holmes.
• See also: Arbour, Keith. "The Title-Page of 'A Platform of Church Discipline' (Cambridge, 1649) and the Date of Its Printing." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 85, numbers 2 (1991): 175-179. Arbour corrects Holmes's mistaken assertion that the date '1649' in the title is a misprint for 1648.
• Two states of the title page noted. In the first state, the imprint begins "Printed at Cambridge by S G in New England ..." In the second, the imprint begins "Printed by S G at Cambridge in New England ..." For further differences, see: Sternberg, P.R., and J.M. Brayer. "Composite imaging: a new technique in bibliographic research." PBSA 77, numbers 4 (1983): 431-445.
• Errata note, pages [31].
• Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 25).

Cited in:

• Evans 25
• Wing (2nd edition) P2396
• Wing (2nd edition) P2396A
• Holmes, T.J. Minor Mathers, 51-A

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