XXII. WE believe a true Church of Christ is not National, 1nor Parochial, but doth consist of a number of godly Persons, who upon the Profession of their Faith and Repentance have been baptized, and in a solemn manner have in a Holy Covenant given themselves up to the Lord, and to one another, to live in Love, and to endeavour to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace: 2Among whom the Word of God is duly and truly preached;3 and Holy Baptism, the Lord's Supper, and all other Ordinances are duly administered, according to the Word of God, and the Institution of Christ in the Primitive Church: watching over one another, and communicating to each other's Necessities, as becometh Saints; living Holy Lives, as becomes their sacred Profession; and not to forsake the assembling themselves, 4as the manner of some ⟨p. 23⟩is; or to take leave to hear where they please in other Places when the Church is assembled, but to worship God, and feed in that Pasture, or with that Church, with whom they have covenanted, and given up themselves as particular Members thereof.
XXII. WE believe a true Church of Christ is not National, 1nor Parochial, but doth consist of a number of godly Persons, who upon the Profession of their Faith and Repentance have been baptized, and in a solemn manner have in a Holy Covenant given themselves up to the Lord, and to one another, to live in Love, and to endeavour to keep the Vnity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace: 2Among whom the Word of God is duly and truly preach'd;3 and Holy Baptism, the Lord's Supper, and all other Ordinances are duly administred, according to the Word of God, and the Institution of Christ in the Primitive Church: watching over one another, and communicating to each other's Necessities, as becometh Saints; living Holy Lives, as becomes their sacred Profession; and not to forsake the assembling themselves, 4as the manner of some ⟨p. 23⟩is; or to take leave to hear where they please in other Places when the Church is assembled, but to worship God, and feed in that Pasture, or with that Church, with whom they have covenanted, and given up themselves as particular Members thereof.
- 1Acts 2.40, 41, 42.
- 2Eph. 4.3.
- 3Acts 2.40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, &c. 1 Cor. 16.1, 2.
- 4Heb. 10.25.
