Ichabod. Or, A discourse, shewing what cause there is to fear that the glory of the Lord, is departing from New-England. Delivered in two sermons,

"IF there is (as who can say their is not?) a Declension in the Churches of New-England, from what once they were, it is not to be wondred For in the Primitive Dayes of Christianity it was so; and this whilest the Apostles were yet Living. In the Churches in Galatia, there was a Superstitious observation of Holy-daye, & of Meats and Drinks. And in those in Asia were greater Errors, and a Scandalous neglect of Discipline in several of them. But in the very next Age to the Apostles, the Defection from Primitive Purity, was greater and more general, especially in matters relating to Church-Discipline. Then began the Contest about the Day when Easter should be kept. Polycarp (the Bishop of Smyrna who was an Holy man, & Dyed a Martyr) and the Asian Churches with him, pleaded for its Observation on the Fourteenth day of the Month. Anicetus (the Bishop of Rome) and with him the Western..."
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.