W. G. Morris, Moderator

C. L. Attaway, Church Clerk

 

We, the undersigned, being members of the Primitive Baptist faith and order holding the doctrine of election, predestination, and final preservation of the saints in grace, being baptized upon a profession of our faith and having received letters of dismission from our respective churches, and agreeing with one and other for the purpose of worshipping God, and to sit in order in the house of the Lord and to one another in a gospel church way, to watch over one another in love and to observe the order and government of the church according to our understanding of God’s holy word, having no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness or commandments of men

 

For as much as Almighty God, by His grace, has been pleased to call us out of darkness into His light, and having been baptized upon a profession of our faith in Christ Jesus, and having given ourselves to the Lord and one another in a gospel church way, to be governed and guided by a proper discipline agreeable to the word of God

 

We do covenant together by the help of God to keep up the discipline of the church of which we are members, in brotherly affection toward each other, to watch over one another, and if need be in the most tender and affectionate manner to reprove one another, and not to be whispering and backbiting.

 

We agree, with God’s assistance, to attend our church meetings and not absent ourselves from the communion of the Lord’s supper without a lawful excuse, to be ready to communicate to the defraying of the church expenses and for the help of the ministry, not to irregularly depart from the fellowship of the church or to remove to the bounds of distant churches without a regular letter of dismission and placing it in the church where we reside.

 

We do agree to keep sacred these things by the help of God, in witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names.

 

Amen.