"We give up ourselves unto the Lord Jehovah, who is the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and avouch Him this Day to be our God, our Father, our Saviour, and our Leader, and receive Him as our portion forever. "We give up ourselves unto the Blessed Jesus, who is the Lord Jehovah, and adhere to him as the Head of his people in the covenant of grace, and rely on him as our priest, and our prophet, and our king, to bring us unto eternal blessedness. "We acknowledge our everlasting and indispensible obligations, to glorify our God in all the duties of a godly, and a sober, and a righteous life; and very particularly in the Duties of a church state, and a Body of people associated for an obedience to him, in all the ordinances of the gospel and we thereupon depend upon his gracious assistances for our faithful discharge of the duties thus incumbent on us. "We desire and intend, and (with dependence on his promised and powerful grace) we engage, to walk together as a church of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Faith and order of the gospel, so far as we shall have the same revealed unto us: conscientiously attending the public worship of God, the sacraments of his New Testament, the discipline of his kingdom, and all his holy institutions, in communion with one another, and watchfully avoiding sinful stumbling-blocks and contentions, as becomes a people whom the Lord has bound up together in a bundle of life. "At the same time, we do also present our offspring with us unto the Lord; purposing with his help, to do our part in the methods of a religious education, that they may be the Lord's. "And all this we do, flying to the blood of the everlasting covenant, for the pardon of our many errors, and praying that the glorious Lord who is the great Shepherd, would prepare and strengthen us for every good work, to do his will, working in us that which will be well pleasing to him; to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. INDEX I. PRINCIPAL TOPICS IN THE VOLUME. A. Admissions to the church at Jerusalem, 41; to Congregational Agreement of Congregationalists, ancient and modern, in funda- Antioch, church in, congregational, 54; send missionaries to the Apostles, what? 71; foundation of their authority, 73; called on Apostolic Fathers, their testimony in favor of Congregationalism, Archbishops, English, 206; their Ecclesiastical courts, 209; year- Archdeacons, 206; their ecclesiastical courts, 210. Arminianism, and Unitarianism, how introduced into our Church- Associations of ministers, 195. Churches, 197. B Baptismal Regeneration, taught in the Common Prayer Book, Baptist, Calvinistic churches, Congregationalists, 239. Free- Benefices, in Church of England, 213. Bishops, English income of, 212-13. Arbitrary power of A- Book of Common Prayer, of P. E. Church in U. S., wherein it differs from the B. C. P. Church of England, 215-227; Po- Business Meetings of a Church, 168, 170, 286. Call of Church to a pastor-elect, 260. Canons, or Prebendaries, in Church of England, 206; see Deans. Christian Church, characteristics of, 19. Christian Connection, their churches independent, 239. Church and State, influence of the union under Constantine, 147; Church, its organization in different ages, 17. Patriarchal, ib. Churches should be composed of visible saints only, 38, 41-43. Confession of Faith, adopted by Congregational churches, 1680, Conferences, county, 196; state, 197; Methodist, 231. Congregational, the title, probably, given our churches by Jolin CONGREGATIONALISM, Analysis of this Work. Preliminary REMARKS. The subject, how regarded by the fa- |