Returning unto God the great concernment of a covenant people. Or A sermon preached…

WE, who through the exceeding Riches of the Grace and Patience of God, do yet continue Members of this Church; being now assembled in the holy Presence of God, and in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ; after humble Confession of our manifold breaches of Covenant before the Lord our God, and earnest supplication for pardoning mercy through the blood of Christ; and deep acknowledgement of our great unworthiness to be owned as the Lords Covenant People: Also acknowledging our inability to keep Covenant with God, or to perform any spiritual duty, unless the Lord Jesus do enable us thereunto by his Spirit dwelling in us: And being awfully sensible, that it is a dreadful thing, for sinful dust and ashes, personally to transact with the infinitely glorious Majesty of Heaven […] Barth; We do, in humble confidence of his gracious assistance, and acceptance through Christ, each one of us, for our selves, and […] as a Church of the living God, explicitly renew our Covenant with God, and one with another, in manner and form following. That is to say,

WE, who through the exceeding Riches of the Grace and Patience of God, doe yet continue Members of this Church; being now assembled in the holy Presence of God, and in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ; after humble Confession of our manifold breaches of Covenant before the Lord our God, and earnest supplication for pardoning mercy through the blood of Christ; and deep acknowledgment of our great unworthiness to be owned as the Lords Covenant People: Also acknowledging our inability to keep Covenant with God, or to perform any spiritual duty, unless the Lord Jesus doe enable us thereunto by his Spirit dwelling in us: And being awfully sensible, that it is a dreadfull thing, for sinfull dust and ashes, personally to transact with the infinitely glorious Majesty of Heaven 〈…〉 Barth; We do, in humble confidence of his gracious assistance, and acceptance through Christ, each one of us, for our selves, and 〈…〉 as a Church of the living God, explicitly renew our Covenant with God, and one with another, in manner and form following. That is to say,

We do give up our selves unto that God, whose Name alone is Jehovah, Father, Son, and holy Spirit, as the only true and living God; And unto our blessed Lord Jesus Christ, […] our only Saviour, Prophet, Priest, and King over our Souls, and only […] of the Covenant of grace; promising (by the help of his Spirit and grace) to cleave unto God as our chief good, and unto the Lord Jesus Christ by Faith, in a way of Gospel Obedience, as becometh his Covenant People for ever. We do also give up our Offspring unto God in Jesus Christ; avouching the Lord to be our God, and the God of our children: And our selves with our children to be his people; humbly adoring this grace of God, that we and our Offspring with us, may be looked upon as the Lords.