The Cambridge Platform 1648, Illuminated Ecclesiastical Doctrine, Essential, Interconnected.
“Christians are distinguished from other men neither by country, nor language, nor the customs which they observe. For they neither inhabit cities of their own, nor employ a peculiar form of speech, nor lead a life which is marked out by any singularity. ... Following the customs of the natives in respect to clothing, food, and the rest of their ordinary conduct, they display to us their wonderful and confessedly striking method of life. They dwell in their own countries, but simply as sojourners. ... They are in the flesh, but they do not live after the flesh. They pass their days on earth, but they are citizens of heaven. They obey the prescribed laws, and at the same time surpass the laws by their lives. They love all men, and are persecuted by all.”
~ Epistle of Mathetes to Diognetus, Chapter 5, (2nd century AD), A Source Book for Ancient Church History, p. 30.
Michael P. Winship’s piece examines ‘John Cotton’s Middle Way and the Making of the Cambridge Platform of Church Discipline.’ It is an excellent supplement that embellishes the Cambridge Platform of 1648 in greater detail.
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