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■administered by a regularly ordained minister, who visits 

 the congregation as often as the wants of the chm-ch 

 demand. 



From and after the year 1785, Lancaster county began 

 to improve rapidly; towns in various parts of the county 

 were laid out. Samuel Wright laid out the town of Co- 

 lumbia in 1787, and in a few years afterwards others 

 were laid out. Agriculture and commerce prospered. — 



IX. That Charity, Faith, and Good Works, are unitedly ne- 

 cessary to man's salvation ; since charity, without faith, is not 

 spiritual, but natural; and faith, without charity, is not living, 

 but dead ; and both charity and faith, v»ithout good works, are 

 merely mental and perishable things, because without use or 

 fixedness: And that nothing of faith, of charity, or of good 

 works, is of man ; but that pU is of the Lord, and all the merit 

 is his alone. 



X. That Baptism and the Holy Supper are sacraments of 

 divine institution, and are to be permanently observed ; Bap- 

 tism being an e.vternal medium of introduction into the Church, 

 and a sign representative of man's purification and regenera- 

 tion ; and the Holy Supper being an external medium, to those 

 who receive it worthily, of introduction, as to spirit, into 

 heaven, and of conjunction with the Lord ; of which also it is 

 a sign and seal. 



XL That immediately after death, which is only a putting off 

 of the material body, never to be resumed, man rises again in 

 a spiriiUaJ or substantial body, in which he continues to live to 

 eternity ; in heaven, if his ruling affections, and thence his 

 life, have been good ; and in hell, if his ruling affections, and 

 thence his life, have been evil. 



XIL That Now is the time of the Second Advent of the 

 Lord, which is a Coming, not in Person, but in the power and 

 glory of his Holy Word : That it is attended, like his first 

 Coming, vviih the restoration to order of all things in the spiri- 

 tual world, v/here the wonderful divine operation, commonly 

 expected under the name of the Last Judgment, has in conse- 

 quence been performed ; and with the preparing of tlie way 

 for a New Church on the earth, — the first Christian Church 



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