Discourse Delivered On the Two Hundreth Anniversary of the Organization of the O
Discourse Delivered On the Two Hundreth Anniversary of the Organization of the O
Arthur From Old Catalog Shirley
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The effect was to weigh down the church-life and deaden its spirituality by a mass of semi-members, who came in many cases to outnumber the full members, and to give the church a worldly, unspiritual character. The final outcome — largely through the preaching of Edwards, and the Great Awakening of 1740 — partly also through the ex- tension of the right of suffrage, was the lopping off of this unscrip- tural and unsatisfactory fungus. The discussions of this matter are often elaborate and fine-... 13 drawn, and expressed in so technical terms as to puzzle the very elect. This church adopted a so-called " Appendix to the Be- lief" which was a form of Half-waj- Covenant, July 23, 1787. But this appears to have been a dying groan of the perishing pol- ic)- ; for five years later the Confession and Covenant are repeat- ed, but the "Appendix" no more appears. This "Appendix" reads at follows: "And you do moreover believe that in your Baptism, which is the seal of the Gospel Covenant, you are laid under solemn Cov- enant engagements to be the Lord's, and you do appear before God and this people this day publickly to own and renew your covenant engagements to be His forever; and accordingly you do now, in the presence of God and His people, solemnly avouch the living God, — Father, Son and Holy Cihost, to be your Father, Savior and Sanctifier, and take Him to be your portion forever: and on these terms you desire admission to the privileges of Bap- tism and the watch of the church; and as you thus do, you also engage to seek diligently in the ways of Divine appointments: to get the difficulties removed out of your mind which hinder your offering yourself to communion in the holy and solemn ordinance of the Lord's Supper: — thus you promise, believe and engage.
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