3dly.  We  engage  by  divine  assistance  to  walk  together  in  the  spirit
of  love,  watching  over  one  another  with  humility  and  fear,  avoiding  every
occasion  of  offence,  and  reasonably  admonishing,  and  in  weakness  restoring
such  as  may  be  overtaken  in  a  fault.
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hlily.  We  engage  to  watch  and  pray  that  we  so  cause  our  light  to
shine  lie  tore  men  that  they,  seeing  our  good  works,  may  glorify  our  Father
who  is  in  heaven,  and  the  peace  and  prosperity  of  Jerusalem,  and  to  sub-
mit to  the  Gospel  discipline  of  the  church.
5thly.  We  engage  to  submit  ourselves  to  the  Congregational  order
and  discipline  of  Christ's  house,  and  to  the  lawful  ordinance  of  man  for
the  Lord's  sake.
(ithly.  We  engage  to  give  up  our  infant  offspring  to  God  in  baptism,
and  to  bring  up  those  committed  to  our  care,  in  the  nurture  and  admoni-
tion of  the  Lord;  setting  an  example  of  piety  before  them,  both  in  public
and  in  private.
All  these  things  we  engage  in  the  sincerity  of  our  hearts,  this  tenth
day  of  December,  one  thousand  seven  hundred  and  ninety-five."

For  more  than  a  year  after  the  organization  of  the  church  both  it
and  the  town  continued  to  be  without  a  settled  pastor;  although  there  is
reason  to  believe  that  during  the  latter  part  of  that  period  the  Rev.  Lemuel
Wadsworth  was,  so  far  at  least  as  the  church  was  concerned,  officiating  in
that  capacity.
