Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1708. Excerpt: ... would know that matter better, he requested the Bill, which being reach'd onto him, he putteth it up in his bosom, neither would he give it again: and so by this means he took away the matter for us to work upon, since that we had no other Copy. Afterward the Book in which those things were written that were agreed upon among th fifteen, and certain things out of the old Discipline, and other also were gather'd into some order, was brought out among them to be consulted upon; and being read, Mr. Home and Mr. Chambers first of all complain'd that Book was gather'd, they not witting thereof, and had been long beaten upon among certain of them; and therefore that it was reason that a Copy should be given to them and to Mr. Isaac, and a farther time also to deliberate; Mr. Isaac aAErm'd, that he needed two months, or one at the least, to consider of that Book. It was answer'd, that altho Mr. Home and Chambers complain'd that they were not admitted to the collecting of the Book, in that they did us wrong; for being of us thereunto requir'd, they refus'd it, and left it to others. In that they requir'd a Copy, it seem'd unjust (seeing that the Church had decreed that we the fifteen should debate together as concerning the writing of the Discipline) for that thing tended again to a new Dissension. Again, that they requir'd so long a time to deliberate, and especially Mr. Isaac, it was most unjust. For seeing the Mart was now at hand, it was profitable, or rather necessary, that our Church should with speed be established, and our Ministers elected, lest to our great infamy, men coming hither out of all Europe, they might also see the Broils of our Church, and so spread them far abroad among all Nations: moreover, that it would sell out to the great hurt of the Poor, if godly men ..