The Answer: To the Whole Set of Questions of the Celebrated Mr. William Apolonius, Pastor of the Church of Middelburg, Looking Toward the Resolution of Certain Controversies Concerning Church Government Now Being Agitated in England

xxi, 196 pp. Translated fro Latin to English with a new preface, by Douglas Horton. "The importance of the Answer is three-fold. It is the only book of its day that actually attempted to adjust the practices of the New England churches to the background of the Continental Reformation, to let ecclesiastical Europe as a whole know what the colonies, in common with the minority left behind in England, believed about church government. It is the only book of its size and generation that sets forth so clearly and systematically the ecclesiology of the churches in New England. And the set of references included in the glosses of the book throw new light on the books which the ministers of New England read and which provided them with their peculiar theology."--jacket flap