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These Brethren, John Clabaugh and S. G. O’Bryan, after organizing the church wrote And adopted the Constitution of Coryell Baptist Church of Christ, the Church Covenant, and the Rules of Decorum.

THE CHURCH COVENANT

As we trust, we have by divine Grace been brought to embrace the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the influence of his Spirit to give ourselves to Him, so we do now solemnly covenant with each other as God shall enable us to walk together in brotherly love, and that we ill exercise a Christian care and watchfulness over each other and faithfully warn, rebuke, and admonish our brethren as the case may require, that we will not forsake the assembling of ourselves, or omit the great duty of prayer both for ourselves and others, that we will participate in each other’s joys and endure with tenderness and sympathy to bear each other’s burdens and sorrows, that we will seek Divine aid to enable us to walk circumspectly and watchfully in the world, denying ungodliness and every worldly lust, that we will strive together for the support of a faithful and evangelistic ministry among ourselves and to spread the Gospel abroad, that we will through life, admit evil report and good report seek to live to the glory of Him who hath called us out of darkness into his marvelous Light.

The membership through the years of Coryell Baptist Church should have been grateful to

 

 
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