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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