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administered by a regularly ordained minister, who visits 

 the congregation as often as the wants of the church 

 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 17S7, 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, without 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 all 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 external 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 spiritual or substantial body, in which he continues to live to 

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

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

 thence his life, have been evil. 



XII. That Now is the time of the Second Advent -of the 

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

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

 Coming, vvilh the restoration to order of ail things in the spiri- 

 tual world, where the wonderful divine operation, commonly 

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

 quence been performed ; and with the preparing of the way- 

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



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