1761 Terms of Christian and Ministerial Communion
James Dodson
TERMS
OF
MINISTERIAL AND CHRISTIAN COMMUNION
IN THE
REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
I. The acknowledgment of the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, to be the Word of God, and the alone infallible rule of faith and practice.
II. The acknowledgment of the Westminster Confession of Faith, and Catechisms, Larger and Shorter, to be founded upon, and agreeable to the Word of God.
III. The owning of divine right, and original of Presbyterian church-government.
IV. The acknowledgment of the perpetual obligation of our Covenants, National, and Solemn League. And, in consistency with this, acknowledging the Renovation of these Covenants, at Auchensaugh, 1712, to be agreeable unto the Word of God.
V. The owning of all the Scriptural Testimonies, and earnest contendings of Christ’s faithful witnesses; whether martyrs, under the late persecution, or such as have succeeded them, in maintaining the same cause; and especially of the Judicial Act, Declaration and Testimony, emitted by the Reformed Presbytery.
VI. Practically adorning the doctrine of God, our Saviour, by walking in all his commandments and ordinances blamelessly.