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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 6: ecclesiastical history. (search)
unworthy of such a privilege, and our inability to keep covenant with God, or to perform any spiritual duty, unless Christ shall enable thereunto), in humble dependence on free grace for divine assistance and acceptance, we do, in the name of Christ Jesus our Lord, freely covenant, and bind ourselves solemnly, in the presence of God himself; his holy angels, and all his servants here present, to serve the God whose name alone is Jehovah, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the only true and living God for, incline me unto, and strengthen, assist, and enable me in, the work where-unto he has called me; that, in whatsoever part of God's vineyard I may be called to labor in the same, I may be faithful and successful, preaching not myself; but Christ Jesus the Lord. And now I commend you all unto the divine grace, conduct, and blessing, entreating that the God of peace and of love would dwell among you; that his glorious kingdom may be advanced in and by you; that the Father of lights and of
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 7: ecclesiastical history (continued). (search)
, and that all events will be made subservient to his wise and benevolent designs. art. 4.--You believe that man was created in the image of God, in a state of rectitude and holiness; that he fell from that state by transgressing the divine law; and that, in consequence of the original apostasy, the heart of man, in his natural state, is destitute of holiness, and inclined to evil; and that all men, previous to regeneration, are dead in trespasses and sins. art. 5.--You believe that Christ Jesus has, by his sufferings and death, made atonement for sin; and that all who are saved are justified wholly by grace, through the redemption which there is in Christ. art. 6.--You believe that salvation is freely offered to all men, and that all men are under obligation immediately to embrace the gospel; but that such is the depravity of the human heart, that no man will come to Christ until he is renewed by the special agency of the Holy Spirit. art. 7.--You believe that all who em