Published by Tho. Goodwin [and] Philip Nye. London, Printed by M. Simmons for H. Overton; reprinted by Tappan and Dennet, Boston with new preface to the American Edition. Brown blind embossed cloth 8vo, 108pp. Good with rubbing to cloth, mottling to boards and residual dampstaining and mottling/soil to the endpapers, mild foxing to text. A foundational text of Congregationalism addressing the distribution of spiritual authority, establishing that church discipline rests with the entire congregation, and discussing the rights and responsibilities of both elders and the "body of brethren." Sabin 17068.