Forasmuch as Almighty God, by His grace, has been pleased to call us out of darkness into His marvelous light, and all of us have been regularly baptized upon a profession of our faith in Christ Jesus and have given up ourselves to the Lord, and to one another, in a gospel church way, to be governed and guide by a proper discipline, agreeable to the Word of God. We do therefore in the name of Lord Jesus and by His assistance, covenant and agree to keep up the disciplines of the church of which we are members, in the most brotherly affection towards each other, while we endeavor particularly to observe the following rules:
In brotherly love we covenant to pray for each other and to watch over one another. That is, if we discover anything amiss in a brother, to go and tell him his fault, according to directions, given by the Lord in Matthew 18:13-17 and not to be whispering and backbiting. We also agree, with God’s assistance to pray in our families, attend our church meeting, observe the Lord’s day and keep it holy, and not absent ourselves from the communion of the Lord’s Supper and Feet Washing without a lawful reason, to be ready to communicated the defraying of the Church’s expense, and for the support of the ministry; not to irregularly depart from the fellowship of the Church, not to remove to distant churches without a regular dismission.
These things we do covenant and observe and keep sacred in the name of and by the assistance of God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Amen.