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Now that we may observe and keep this holy covenant and all the branches of it inviolable forever-we desire to deny ourselves and to depend wholly upon the eternal Spirit of grace, and upon the free mercy of God, and the merit of Jesus Christ,-and where we shall fail, there to wait upon the Lord Jesus for pardon and for acceptance and for healing for his name's sake ........ AMEN.
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Form of Covenant adopted in 1767.
You believe that there is one only living and true God, the Maker, Preserver and Governor of all things; and that there is but one Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus.
You believe the holy Scriptures to be the word of God, and that they contain a full revelation of his will and of our duty. You believe the fall and apostasy of man, as hield forth in the holv Scriptures, and that it is only on account of Christ's obedience and sufferings, that any can be recovered to the favor and image of God. You hope you have been brought to a humble, penitent sense of your sins, and to a willingness to accept of Christ in all his offices, as he is offered to us in the gospel. You have been endeavoring, according to the apostle's direction, to examine yourself as to your fitness to attend the holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. And you hope it is from a sense of duty and a sincere desire to obey the command of Christ, that you now offer yourself to join in com- munion with his church .- And you heartily resolve by the help of divine grace to walk in all things agreeably to the rules of the gospel.
This you solemnly profess and engage.
[Vote of the Church being taken.]
You are now a member in full communion with the church of Christ, purchased with the price of his blood. And you do seriously, solemnly, deliberately and forever, in the presence of God, angels and this assembly, give up yourself to God, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, avouching the Lord Jehovah to be your God. You give up yourself to the Lord Jesus Christ, as unto your Prophet, Priest and King forever, promising by the help of his Spirit to walk in all the statutes and ordinances of the Lord blameless, answerable to the high and holy vocation wherewith you are called. You give up yourself (and your posterity) to this church; submitting unto the rule and discipline of it ; putting yourself under the care and inspection of it; promising to receive counsels and reproofs with humility and thankfulness : And duly to attend the ordinances of the Lord herein to be administered.
This you promise by the help of divine grace.
We then, the church of the Lord, do joyfully and charitably receive you into our holy fellowship and communion as one whom we hope Christ has received. We promise to admit you to all the ordinances of the gospel in fellowship with us; to watch over you with a spirit of meekness, not for your halting but helping; to treat you with all that affection which our sacred relation now calls for ; and continue our ardent prayers for you to the God of all grace, that you may be made to keep his solemn covenant, that the sure mercies of David may be your everlasting portion. Amen.
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Form of Covenant adopted April 11th, 1793.
We profess our belief of the Christian religion. We unite ourselves together for the purpose of observing the precepts and honoring the institutions of the religion which we profess. We covenant and agree with each other to live together as a band of Christian brethren; to give and receive counsel and reproof with meekness and candor; to submit with a Christian temper to the discipline which the gospel authorizes the church to administer, diligently to seek after the will of God, and carefully endeavor to obey all his commands.
NAMES OF MEMBERS.
N. B .- Those marked with a star (*), deceased; obelisk (t), dismissed; (E), excommunicated. The names of churches denote those from which the members were received; when no church is named, the member was received by profession.
THE following persons were members of the church before its separation from the parish.
¡ Rev. Joshua Bates, D. D. * Paul Lewis. late Pastor. + Elisha Thayer.
* Samuel Fales.
+ William Howe.
: Jonathan Richards.
i Eli Parsons.
* Joseph Swan.
: Jason Wight.
* Jonathan Avery.
+ John Bent.
* Benjamin Farrington.
* Timothy Stow.
* Eliakim Morrill.
Jesse Wheaton.
* Rebecca Fales.
* Sarah Richards.
* Jerusha Avery.
* Abigail Fuller.
Samuel Haven. Jason Messinger.
John Bullard.
* Ruth Morrill.
John Guild.
* Martha Barry.
Nathaniel Guild. -
t Spencer Fuller. James Morse.
+ Anna Bates.
Reuben Richards.
Ebenezer Fisher.
* Thankful Gay.
* Elizabeth Ellis.
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* Lucy Whiting. * Miriam Guild.
Rebecca Guild.
+ Hannah Crane. stall.]
Susan McIntosh.
* Betsey McIntosh. + Mary Hunnewell.
Elizabeth Haven.
Elizabeth Clapp.
Olive Messinger.
t Lucy Smith.
Elizabeth Smith. Nancy Wheaton.
Lydia Bullard.
Hannah DeWolfe.
Elizabeth Noyes.
1 Julia Metcalf. Polly Whiting. Polly Howe.
* Rachel Gould. Sarah Richards. Hannah Bent.
* Mary Daniell.
* Betsey Edson.
* Mary Fales.
* Sarah Farrington.
Lucy Morse.
* Lois Howe.
* Lucy Avery. Kenney.]
* Prudence Clark.
* Eunice Lewis.
* Sylvia Nicholls.
Louisa Damon.
Abigail Fuller. Elizabeth Fuller.
+ Mary Howe. + Harriet Rice, [Mrs.
+ Lucinda Bonfils. Badger. ]
Admitted in 1821.
Rev. Ebenezer Burgess, Wareham.
Elijah Howe, Philadelphia. Samuel Bird, 2d Church, Dorchester.
+ Henry Winchester, 2d Chh. Roxbury. * Deborah Richards, 1
+ Jesse Warren, 66 Dedham. + Betsey Warren,
Sally Squier.
Hannah Webb.
* Sarah Mann. Prudence Stowe. Sarah Stowe.
+ Eliz. Mcintosh, [Mrs. A. Rebecca Damon, [Mrs. E. McIntosh.]
j Mary White.
+ Susan Robie.
+ Abigail Parsons. + Sally Daniell, [Mrs. Fore- .
* Hannah Guild.
* Lendamine Guild. Susan Guild.
* Lydia Fuller. Nancy Thayer. Catharine Bird. Lucy Bullard.
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f Caroline Baker, [ Mrs. J. P. Haven, ] 2d Ch. Dedham. Anna Glover, 66
* Ebenezer Newell, 1st Church, Needham.
¡ Mehitable Newell,
+ Nancy W. Newell, [Mrs. Tyler, ] Ist Ch. Needham. + Harriet N. Heath, Dover.
+ Frances Newell,
+ Elizabeth W. Newell, Pembroke, N. H.
+ Lucinda Newell, [Mrs. Tilton,] Pembroke, N. H.
+ Sally Ellis, Easton.
Betsey Wight, 2d Church, Dorchester.
- Joseph Morrill. Luther Boynton.
Abigail Boynton.
Catharine Allen.
Cynthia Whiting.
* *: Betsey Ellis.
Borridille Whiting.
Lucy Glover. Mary Wilson Chickering.
+ Eliza Wellington.
Abigail Fuller, [Mrs. H. Fuller.] Rebecca Jordan. Eliza Lyon, [Mrs. L. Richards.]
¡ Rachel Adams Lyon, [Mrs. H. P. Eveleth. }
+ Louisa Boynton, [Mrs. Fitz.] Jane Little Montague.
+ Roxa Dwight Baker.
¡ Hannah Haselton, [Mrs. Atwood.]
+ Abigail Melntosh, [Mrs. H. Winchester. ]
* Prudence Clark, [ Mrs. E. Howe.]
+ Mary Ann Sturtevant, [Mrs. Shepard.] Saba A. Sturtevant, [Mrs. Comstock. ]
t Rebecca Eaton Guild, [ Mrs. L. Luce.] Lendamine Draper Guild, [Mrs. E. W. Taft.]
+ Cornelia Guild, [Mrs. J. Shorey.]
* Minerva Wheaton, [Mrs. E. W. Taft.] Elizabeth Robinson, [Mrs. Fuller, Boston.]
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1822.
Jane Montague, 2d Church, Marshfield.
+ Sarah Fisher, Harford, Pa.
1 Mary H. Cheney, Ist Church, Needham.
+ Rhoda Fuller, 2d Church, Dedham. Joseph W. Gay. Nathan Everett.
E Stephen Grover. William Paul.
+ Abel Kenney.
+ Edward Messinger.
Sally Draper.
* Sally Draper. Susan Richards.
Mary Coolidge.
Maria Gay. Hephzibah Everett.
+ Susan Thayer.
E Nancy Grover. Rebecca White.
* Sally Webb.
* Patience Bosworth. * Anna Fuller.
+ Melinda Sanborn, [Mrs. Adams.] Sarah Farrington. Nancy Farrington.
* Lydia McIntosh, [Mrs. A. Kenney.]
+ Mary Elizabeth McIntosh, [Mrs. J. Myers.] Abigail Pratt, [Mrs. W. Paul.]
1823.
Miranda Guild. Roxana Alden. Abigail Fuller.
1824.
Abigail B. Burgess, Old So. Chh. Boston. Rebecca Alden, 1st Church, Needham. 3 *
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Priscilla Clapp. Nancy Damon.
t Sally Fuller.
1825.
* Nathaniel Talbot, 2d Church, Roxbury.
* Reuben Fuller.
+ William Symmes.
+ Edward J. W. Morse.
+ Nathaniel Lang.
+ Dolly Lang. Sarah Selman.
Naomi Goldthwaite.
Lucy Cushman, Attleborough.
Lucy Phipps Farrington.
Deborah B. Shepard, [Mrs. S. Turner. ] Sally Jane Selman.
+ Eliza S. Wyatt.
1826.
Myra Ware Leland, [Mrs. Hooker, Bridge- Rebecca Bullen. water. ]
+ Elizabeth Johnson.
1827.
John Lyons.
Thomas Wiggin.
Elisha McIntosh.
Edwin Macomber.
Joseph Allen.
Josiah Curtis, South Boston.
× Mary Lyons. Eliza Wiggin.
* Amanda Taft, Pawtucket, R. I. Abigail Hayden. Pelina Reed Whiting, [Mrs. E. McIntosh, Jr.] Eunice Messinger.
Lucinda Guild.
Phebe Southworth, West Fairlee, Vt.
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Nancy Ladd, Holderness, N. H.
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Mary Ann Webb. Eleanor Bain.
Lucy Holden. Mary Alden. Lucinda Orr.
+ Jemima Atwood, [Mrs. Shurtleff.]
1828.
Cæsar Nicholls.
+ Jeremiah Myers.
¡ Joseph Allen Cheney.
+ Washington F. Fisher.
* Jesse Wheaton.
Eliphalet Kingsbury.
Horace Clark.
George Whiting.
James Downing.
Nathaniel M. Guild. Jonathan Gould.
Milton Tyler.
William Chenery.
Richard H. Wiswall.
Caleb Remington, New York.
Sarah Richards.
Sarah Dewing.
Mary Clark.
Sarah Whiting.
Mary Ann Kingsbury.
Belinda Downing.
Mary Snell.
Į Lucy Shaw, South Boston.
+ Sally Needham. Sarah Gould.
- Almira W. Davis. Alice Sumner. Chloe Briggs.
+ Ruena Farnsworth, [Mrs. Jackson.]
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+ Hannah Gay, [Mrs. Abbey.] + Prudence Wood, [Mrs. A. Keen.] + Charlotte Tyler. Caroline Whiting. Abigail Libbee. Mary White, [Mrs. S. Leach.] Hannah Fisher, [Mrs. J. Wight.] Elizabeth Webb.
+ Harriet Belknap. Ann Wight, [Mrs. J. Chandler. ]
+ Nancy B. Thayer, [Mrs. J. B. Arnold. ] + Levina Howard. Eliza Alexander, [Mrs. B. Boyden.] Mary Messinger.
¡ Nancy Adams.
Lydia N. Kingsbury, [Mrs. J. Chipman.] Emeline Mary Sumner, [Mrs. C. Woods.] Sally Clark, [Mrs. E. P. Crane.]
* Martha Clark. Mehitable Smith Fuller, [Mrs. R. H. Wiswall.] + Rebecca Kingsbury, [Mrs. Campbell.] Hannah Fisher. Nancy Newell Gay, [Mrs. A. K. White.]
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1829.
Reuben Guild. * Eliphalet Pond.
+ Seth Wight.
Benjamin Boyden.
Samuel Southworth, Union Church, Boston.
Loring Johnson. Martin Draper.
William Smith. George Owen.
+ Mary Ann Wight.
* Ann Pond, [Mrs. W. Smith.] Joanna Farrington, Portland, Me. Mehitable Fuller, [Mrs. C. Guild, ] 1st Ch. Needham.
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Catharine Bird. Lucy Ann Morse. Almira Whiting. Mary Herring.
+ Asenath Norton, Winchester, N. H. Betsey Rugs, Charlestown.
+ Abigail H. Howard.
* Lurana Crosby.
Ruby Lewis.
1830.
Samuel Gile Bent.
¿ Parla P. Warren.
Martha Bird, South Church, Dedham.
+ Mary A. Wood, Ist Church, Newton. Lucinda Fowler.
İ Sarah K. Gould.
f Julia Bird, [ Mrs. H. G. Park.]
Betsey Stowe.
Martha Briggs.
Abigail Newell. [Mrs. J. Griggs.]
Catharine L. McDonnell.
1831.
* Jesse Houghton, 2d Church, Dorchester.
+ Ann Mary Houghton, " John Perkins. Thomas Allen Gale. Rebecca Bullard.
+ Rebecca Fisher. Mary Carley.
* Abigail Clark.
. Mary Bird.
1832.
+ Aaron Cass. Artemas Ambler. Alexander Mc Whirk. Ebenezer Paul Crane.
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Jacob Clark. Leonard Alden. Joseph Stowe. Calvin Fuller.
- Frederick A. Taft.
Joseph Warren Swan. Samuel R. Merrill.
+ Nathan Rand.
Aaron Clark. Henry Stibbs. John A. Whitney.
Calvin Guild, Jr. + Jason Reed. Elisha McIntosh, Jr.
- Nathaniel Tyler Guild. Joseph D. Stowe.
* Solomon Richards, Dover. Ebenezer Fish, Union Church, Boston."
Samuel Gould, Ist Church, Needham. Roland Packard, South Church, Braintree. + Mary Whiting.
* Priscilla Cass. Susan B. Caffray.
+ Mary Morse.
Nancy Trescott. Hannah Gale. Sevina Howard.
+ Esther Gould, Ist Church, Needham.
Sarah Packard, South Church, Braintree. Matilda Mc Whirk, Carickfergus, Scotland. Betsey Mann, Taunton. Sophia Clark.
* Adeline Alden. Eliza Newell. Lucretia Cox.
t Eunice Fisk.
Sarah Richards, Dover. Elizabeth Fish, Bowdoin Church, Boston. Sarah Fisher.
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Mary Pedrick, [Mrs. A. Ambler.] Mary Ann Webb. Emily Paul.
+ Elizabeth Gould, Ist Church, Needham. Mary Blood, Park Street Church, Boston.
Susan Lincoln.
Mary Ann Coney. Mary Elizabeth Farnon.
Elvira Richards, [Mrs. H. Clark.] Adeline White.
+ Mary Davis Whiting, [Mrs. N. Rand.] Maria Bullard, [Mrs. H. F. Spear.]
* Abigail T. Crane. Mary Fisher. Jane Messinger.
! Emily Newell. Mary Fisher Damon. Lavinia Torrence.
+ Mehitable B. Howe, [Mrs. Partridge.] Elizabeth Bird.
t Mary Ann Gould.
1833.
+ Simeon Farnsworth. Nathaniel S. Parsons.
+ Augustus B. Keen. Willard Shattuck, Bradford, N. H.
+ Paul Draper, Ist Church, Brookfield.
İ Nancy Draper, Elizabeth Shattuck, Francestown, N. H. Mary Daniell, 2d Church, Dedham.
1 Lucy Talbot, Roxbury.
* Sarah Cass, Candia, N. H. . Marcia Bartlett, Norway, Me.
+ Harriet Tyler. Elizabeth S. Bourne.
+ Eunice Lowell, [Mrs. Farnsworth.]
f Ann Mason, [Mrs. J. S. Pearson.] t Mary Lowell.
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Avis Macomber. Almira Sylvester. Sarah Webb. Julia Ann Griggs. + Maria Griggs, [Mrs. H. Staniels.] Maria Smith.
1834.
+ Hiram W. Blanchard.
Alithea Macomber. Jerusha Bingham.
Catharine M. Gilmore. Deborah Sumner.
Abigail W. Alden.
Lucy Meade.
Sarah Bourne Burgess.
Emeline Shepard.
Mary Freeman Wing. Lydia Robinson, [Mrs. J. Munro.] ¡ Emily Macomber, [Mrs. M. L. Hobart.]
1835.
Samuel Curtis. Charles Fuller.
Jonas Gifford.
Moses Gay, Milton.
Mehitable Gay, Milton.
Julia Ann Howe, "
Asenath Onion, West Medway.
Lemira Bliss, 1st Church, Taunton.
Edward Bliss,
Elizabeth K. Rice.
Hannah Jordan.
Sarah Newbert.
1836.
Josiah Chandler. Lauretta Wheaton Taft. Lucy Talbot Stowell.
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C. Bingers Pastor
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BRIEF SUMMARY OF
CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE, AND A
FORM OF COVENANT.
ADOPTED BY THE
FIRST CHURCH IN DEDHAM,
MARCH 9, 1821.
AND PUBLICLY READ ON THE
ADMISSION OF MEMBERS.
B. FIELD-DEDHAM ; 1822.
ARTICLE L,
Jehovah, the true and eternal God, who made, supports and governs the world, is perfect in natural and moral excellence.
Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. Deut. 6. 4. I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. Thou shalt have none other Gods before me. Deut. 5. 6, 7. I am the Lord, and I appeared unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to theni. Ex. 6. 3. And God said unto Moses, I am that I am: and he said, thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you .. . Ex. 3. 14. That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the Most High over all the earth. Ps. 83. 18. The Lont JEHOVAH is my strength. Is. 12. 2. Trust ye in the Lord forever: For in the Lord JEHOVAH is everlasting strength. Is. 26. 4.
I am the Lord and there is none else; there is no God besides me. Is. 45. 5. The Lord is the true God, he is the living God. Jer. 10. 10. And this is life eternal that they might know thee the only true Ged and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. John 17. 3. Ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God. I Thess. 1. 9. This is the true God and eternal life. 1 John 5. 20. Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory forever and ever. I Tim. 1. 17. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. Rev. 4. 8. Before the mountains were brought forth. or ever thou hadet forned the earth and the world, even from everlasting to ever- lasting, thou art God. Ps. 90. 2.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. 1. 1. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. Gen. 2. 4. Thou, even thou, art Lord alone : thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens with all their host, the carth and all things that are therein, the seas and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all ; and the host of heaven worshipgeth thec. Neh. 9. 6. Every house is builded. by some man ; but he that built all things is God. Heb. 3.4. We preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living Ged, which made heaven and earth and the sea, and all things that are therein ; Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. Nev- ertheless he left not himself without withess, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness. Acts 14. 15, 16, 17. Ho stretched out the north over the empty place, and haugeth the earth upon nothing. Job 26. 7. In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. Job 12. 10. I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth forever, whose dominionis an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation : And all the inhal Rants of the earth art. reputed as nothing : and he doth according to bis will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth : and none can stay his hand,
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or say unto him, What doest thou? Dan. 4. 31, 35. Who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. Eph. 1. 11. The lot is cast into the lap ; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. Prov. 16. 33, Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall up- on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Mat. 10. 29, 30.
God is love. I John 4. 8. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. Mat. 5. 48. God is a spirit : and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. John 4. 24. He is the Rock, his work is perfect ; for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is be. Deut, 32. 4. The Lord is gracious and full of compassion ; slow to anger and of great mercy. The Lord is good to all ; and his tender mercies are over all his works. Al thy works shall praise thee, O Lord , and thy saints shall bless thee. Ps. 145. 8-10. Great is our Lord and of great power : his understanding is infinite. Ps. 147. 5. And the I ord passed by before him and proclaimed, 'The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long suffering and abund- ant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty ; vis- iting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. Ex. 34. 6, 7.
ARTICLE II.
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testa- ment were written by holy men as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, and are an infal- lible rule of doctrine and duty.
From a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus, All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness : that the man of God may be perfect thoroughly furnished unto all good works. Il Tim. 3. 15-17. We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of any private interpretation ; for the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. Il Pet. 1. 19-21. And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. All things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the psalms, concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures. Luke 24. 27, 44, 45. Search the Scriptures. John 5. 39. God who at sundry times and divers mamers, spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son. Heb. 1. 1, 2. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, The spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue. Il Sam. 23. 1. 2. To the law and to the tes- timony : if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Is. 8. 20. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have I reached mio you, let him be accursed. Gal. 1. 8. For I testify unto every man that
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heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unte these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book : And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. Rev. 22. 18, 19. Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures. Mat. 22. 29. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Ps. 119. 105. O how love I thy law ; it is my meditation all the day. Ps. 119. 97.
ARTICLE III.
Jehovah, who is adored in heaven by the hosts of the angels and the great assembly of the saints, to whom the church on carth in the ordinance of baptism is solemnly con- secrated, and with whom the people of God maintain communion in acts of holy wor- ship, adoration and grateful dependence, exists in three Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, who possess the same nature and are equal in every divine per- fection.
Go ye, and teach all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father. and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Mat. 28. 19. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Hols Ghost, be with you all. II Cor. 13. 14. Grace be unto you and peace from him, which is and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness and the first begotten of the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed ns from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father ; to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Rev. 1. 4-6. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. Is. 6. 4. The four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having of- , ery one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the pray- ers of saints. And they sung a new song saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thon wast slain, and has redeemed us to God by the blood out of every kindred and tongue and pee- ple and nation ; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests ; and we shall reign on the earth. And I beheld and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands ; saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was siada to receive power and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and such as are in the sca, and all that are in them, heard I say. Jag, Blessing and honour, and glory and power, be nuto him that sitte !! upon the throne and unto the Lamb, forever and ever. Rev. 5. 2-1 .. Truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
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I John 1. 13. If there be any consolation in Christ-if any fellowship of the Spirit .-- Who, being in the form of God, thought it no: r bhery to be equal with God-And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Phil. 2. 1, 6, 11. By his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also be made the worlds, who, being the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high. And let all the angels of God worship Lim. but unto the Son, he saith, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever ; a sceptre of righteous- ness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Heb. 1. 2. 3, 6, 8. In the beginning was the Word, and the word was with God. and the Word was God. All things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. John 1. 1, 3.
But Peter said, Ananias, Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. Acts 5. 3, 4. And as they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, de- parted unto Seleucia. Acis 13. 2-1.
ARTICLE IV.
God created the world to display his glo- ry, and both knew and ordained whatsoever comes to.pass: Ilis decrees are eternal, universal and immutable.
"The heavens declare the glory of God. Ps. 19. 1. Thou hast created all things, aud for thy pleasure they are and were created. Rev. 4. 11. I form the light and create darkness ; I make peace and create evit ; I the Lord do all these things. Is. 15. 7. The Lord hath made all things for himself; yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. Prov. 16. 4. For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever. Rom, 11. 26.
Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. Acts 15. 18. Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowl- edge of God, ye have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain. Acts 2. 23. There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel of the Lord that shall stand. Prov. 19. 21. Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure. Is. 46. 10. And truly the son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed. Luke 22. 22. For ofa truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and. Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gather- ed together, for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determin- ed before to be done. Acts 4. 97, 23. In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him, who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. Eph. 1. 11. Where- in God. willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immotability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath. Web. 6. 17. The counsel of the Lord standeth forever, the thoughts of his heart to all gen- erations. Ps. 39. 11. I am the Lord. I change not ; therefore yo cons of Jacob are not consumed. Med. 8. 6.
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