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 up one invisible sanctified church, which is the mystical body of Jesus Christ, receiving vital influence from him as from their head and having communion in the same spirit of faith and love. And that all those who by Baptism outwardly profess faith in Christ, as the true Messiah, make up the universal visible church of Christ on earth, of which Jesus Christ is the only ruling head, and as such, hath instituted ordinances for Worship and discipline, which are to be observed and kept pure in particular churches, and hath appointed the standing office of a Gospel Ministry, or the church; and hath promised to be with them always to the end of the world.

11thly, I believe that God hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness, by that man whom he hath ordained, who will raise the bodies of all men from the grave and judge them all according to their works, sending the Wicked, Impenitent, and Unbeliever, into everlasting punishment; and receiving the righteous into life eternal, to be together for ever with the Lord. And that then he shall deliver up the kingdom to God even the Father, that God may be in all to eternity: and that this is the foundation of all revealed religion and a perfect sufficient rule of direction to the children of men.

And again, I am to take Christ for my prophet, to be taught by him what is my duty, and in this case I desire to learn of him as the only master, what is the will of God and renouncing my own wisdom, which I reckon but weakness and folly, I know and am persuaded, that I am ra [sic] lost creature, that justice must be satisfied,