| Having been as we trust's brought by divine grace to embrace the Lord Jesus Christ and to give ourselves wholely to Him, we do now solemnly and joyfully covenant with each other to walk together, in Him, with brotherly love, to His glory, as our common Lord. We do, therefore, in His strength, ingage, that we will exercise a christian care and watchfulness over each other, and faithfully warn, exhort, and admonish each other as occasion may require, that we will not forsake the assembling of ourselves together, but will uphold the public worship of God and the ordinances of His house. That we will not omit closer and family religion at home, nor neglect the great duty of religiously training of our children, and those under our care, for the services of Christ and the enjoyment of heaven, that as we are the light of the world and the salt of the earth, we will seek divine aid, to inable us to deny ungodliness and every worldly lust, and to walk circumspectively in the world that we may win the soul of men, that we will cheerfully contribute of our means, according as God has prospered us, for the maintenance of a faithful and evangelicalministry among us, for the support of the poor and to spread the gospel over the earth, that we will in all conditions, even till death,strive to live to the glory of Him who hath called us out of darkness into His marvelous light. And may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make us perfect in every good work to do His will, working in us that which is well pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ to whom be the glory, for ever and ever. |
