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US to keep this blessed communion with God, 

 and with his Son Jesus Christ, and to grow up 

 more fully herein, we do likewise promise, 

 by his grace assisting us, to endeavor the es- 

 tablishing among ourselves, of all his holy or- 

 dinances which God hath appointed for his 

 churches here on earth, and to observe all and 

 every of them in such sort as shall be most 

 agreeable to his will, opposing to the utmost of 

 our power whatsoever is contrary thereunto, 

 and bewailing from our hearts our own neglect 

 thereof in former time, and our polluting our- 

 selves therein with any sinful inventions of 

 men. 



And, lastly, we do hereby covenant and prom- 

 ise to further to our utmost power the best 

 spiritual good of each other, and of all and 

 every one that may become members of this 

 congregation, by mutual instruction, reprehen- 

 sion, exhortation, consolation, and spiritual 

 watchfulness over one another for good ; and 

 to be subject, in and for the Lord, to all the 

 administrations and censures of the congrega- 

 tion, so far as the same shall be guided accord- 

 ing to the rules of God's Holy Word. Of the 

 integrity of our hearts herein, we call God, the 

 searcher of all hearts, to witness, beseeching 

 him so to bless us in this and all other enter- 

 prises, as we shall sincerely endeavor, by the 

 assistance of his grace, to observe this holy 

 covenant and all the branches of it inviolably 

 forever ; and where we shall fail for to wait on 



