The members of Sundry Baptist church having first given ourselves to
the Lord and to one another in christian fellowship do agree to keep up rules of
discipline and be constituted a church of Jesus Christ on the following
principles, viz.
1st We believe in only one true and living God, the Father, the
Word and the Holy Ghost.
2nd We believe that the scriptures of the old and new testament
are given inspiration of and form the only infallible rule of faith and practice
3rd We believe in the fall of man and that he by nature possesses
neither will nor power to deliver himself from sinful state.
4th We believe that salvation, regeneration, Sanctification and
Justification are by the life, death, resurrection, assention and intercession
of Jesus Christ and that the Children of God are kept by his power through faith
unto salvation.
5th We believe that good works are the fruits of faith and follow
after justification.
6th We believe that all true believers are elect according to the
for-knowledge of God through sanctification of the Sprit and belief of the
truth.
7th We believe that baptism is an ordinance of the gospel and that
imertion is the only apostolick move.
8th We believe the Lords supper to be an ordinance of Jesus Christ
to be continued in his church until he comes the second time without sin unto
salvation.
9th We believe that none have a right to administer the ordinances
of the gospel but those who have been baptised and legally set apart to the
office of minister.
10th We believe in the resurrection of the dead, both just and
unjust and of a general judgement.
11th We believe that the joys of the righteous will be eternal and
the punishment of the wicked everlasting.
Transcribed by Reta Parton, September
30, 2002
