Article #8 -      “We believe it to be the duty of all churches to make an abridgment of their principles as deducted from the Scriptures as their covenant or constitution.”

 

Deuteronomy 6:1 – 9

Deuteronomy 6:1        Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:

Deuteronomy 6:2        That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

Deuteronomy 6:3        Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it: that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 6:4        Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:

Deuteronomy 6:5        And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Deuteronomy 6:6        And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

Deuteronomy 6:7        And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Deuteronomy 6:8        And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and thy shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

Deuteronomy 6:9        And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

             Luke 1:1-4

Luke 1:1          Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us.

Luke 1:2          Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the work:

Luke 1:3          It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,

Luke 1:4          That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.