PER:a sample COVENANT

   In uniting with this association of christians, we solemnly covenant
together, God helping us, that we will walk together in brotherly love,
striving by prayer and personal example to promote the spiritual
welfare of each other; that we will be kind one to another,
tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake,
has forgiven us; that as we have opportunity, we will do good unto all
men, especially unto them that are the household of faith; that we will
abstain from fleshly lusts that war against the soul; that we will put
away from us bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking; that
we will have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but
rather reprove them; that we will contend earnestly for the faith once
delivered to the saints; will bring up our children in the nurture and
admonition of the lord; will not forsake the assembling of ourselves
together; that we will keep the ordinances as they were once delivered
to us; that we will remember them who speak unto us the Word of God;
that we will give as God has prospered us, not grudgingly nor of
necessity, that we be not eased and others burdened; that whatsoever
things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are
just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, if there
be any praise, we will think on these things, for we serve the Lord
Jesus Christ.
