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Center Church annual manuals: 1870 and 1871 · scan page 17
Uncorrected OCR. Name spellings, dates, symbols and column order may be wrong. Verify against the original scan. Bound volume includes named death lists for 1869 and 1870: 16 and 11 deaths, plus an Eliza Allen correction. These 28 references are separately transcribed. Church member deaths do not establish burial location.
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10 You believe, that God has had compassion on sinful men; that tiie Son of God, who is equal with the Father, havini^ taken upon himself our nature, has, by his sullbrinofs and death, made ato!ie- ment for sin; that he arose from the dead and asccndrMl into heaven, where he ever lives to m;ike intercession for tiiem that come unto God by him; tliat, tlirou^rh him, God otft?rs forr^ivruiess to all men; and, that every sinner, who turns to (Jod, by repent- ance, with faith in ins Sou, is freely pardoned and will l)e s.iv«m1. Vou believe, that God has revealed all thiuLfs necessary to salva- tion, in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, which, bein;^ ffiven by the inspiration of his Spirit, arc an infilliblu rule of faitli and practice : and that he seufis tlic Holy Spirit to make the truth etiectual, by \vh()se influences all, who are chosen to eternal Ufe, are renewed and sanctiried in believinir and obeying the jjfospel. You believe, that it is the duty of Christ's disciples to associate themselves for worship and coiumunion, tor mutual watchfulness and improvement, for the administration of Baptism and tlie Lord's Supper, and for the perpetuation and extension of liis kinLfdom among men; and that any association of believers for tliese pur- poses is a Christian Church. You believe, that there will be a resurrection of all the dead; and that God will call all men to an account for all their actions, judging them in righteousness according to the gospel, condemning the disobedient and unbelieving to everlasting punishment, and ad- mitting the righteous into lite eternal. These things, in tlie presence of Almighty God, you solemnly profess to believe. COVENANT. Through Christ striMiirthcning you, without whom you can do nothing, you here, in the presence of God, angels, and this assem- bly, now profess that you do, antl promise that henceforward you will, deny unufodliness ;ind worldly lusts, wlierein in times past you have walked ; and you do now give up yourself, [or, your- selves,] soul and body, and all that you have, are, or shall be, unto
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P008-0017. Center Church annual manuals: 1870 and 1871, printed page not verified, PDF page 17. New Haven (Conn.). First Church of Christ; digitized copy contributed by Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center https://archive.org/details/manualoffirstchu00newh_0/page/n17/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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