A N ORIGINAL DRAUGHT OF THE Primitive Church: In Anfwer to a DISCOURSE ENTITULED, An Enquiry into the CONSTITUTION, DISCIPLINE, UNITY, and WORSHIP, of the Primitive Church, that flourish'd within the first Three Hundred Years after CHRIST. By a Presbyter of the Church of England. . SLATER, A.M. London: Printed for Geo. Strahan, at the Golden Ball against the Royal-Exchange, and J. Bowyer at the Rofe in Ludgate Street, 1717. THE PREFACE HE following Sheets will need the lefs Apology for them, fince all, who call themselves Chriftians, are fo nearly interested in the Subject of them; and the particular Author of that learned Tract they more immediately refer to, will find them little more than a friendly Compliance with a modeft Request of his own. His Collections from the venerable Records of the Primitive Church (Intituled, An Enquiry into the Constitution, Difcipline, Unity and Worship of it) were many years fince made publick (as I am now affured) though my little Acquaintance with the modern Business of the Prefs, made me a Stranger to it, till fome confiderable Time after the fecond Edition came abroad: In his Preface to them (calculated, I prefume, for the A 2 firft |