Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort [you] that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

Church Covenant

For as much as Almighty God, by His grace, has been pleased to call us out of darkness into His marvelous light, and having been baptized upon a profession of our faith in Christ Jesus, and having given ourselves to the Lord, and one another in a gospel church way to be governed and guided by a proper discipline agreeable to the word of God, We do covenant together by the help of God to keep up the discipline of the church of which we are members, in brotherly affection toward each other. To watch over one another, and if need be in the most tender and affectionate manner to reprove one another, and not to be whispering and backbiting. We agree that it is our joyful duty to minister of our common things to the necessities of those who preach the Word to us, to the necessities of the poor among us, visiting the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and keeping ourselves unspotted from the world. We also agree, if not providentially hindered, (As far as possible) to assemble ourselves together for public worship, speaking often one to another, singing, praying, exhorting, or preaching as the Lord of the harvest may bestow gifts for the comfort and edification and encouragement of one another.