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A draft of Statement Five occurs in the Mint Papers: Mint catalogue MINT00570 (V.33) on the reverse of a draft document of 1715, though it is not clear which side was written first.
Published in McLachlan, Theological Manuscripts, 58-9.
in English
Bought at the Sotheby sale by Keynes for £11.10s.
The manuscript breaks off after the beginning of the eighth statement
1 That religion & Philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not
to introduce divine revelations into Philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into
religion.
2
upon which they were admitted into communion.
2 That Religion & polity
dements of men a part of the laws of God
4 The conditions or articles of communion are all
Church were taught the Chatechumeni in orde in order to baptism & imposition of
hand, vizt [to forsake the Devil & all his works, &
flesh, the lusts of the eye & the pride] repentance & abstinence from dead works,
& a practical beleif in God one God & the H Iesus Christ & in the Holy Ghost
5 By dead works repentance & abstinence from dead works we are to understand
works accompanying such worship, & 2dly abstin
lusts of the eye & the pride of life, that is from evil concupiscence, covetousness ab & ambition.
5 By dead works we are to understand Idolatry, inordinate lusts of the flesh,
covetousness & ambition. We are to forsake the Devil & his works that is fals gods &
idols &ch
the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye & the pride of life.For if a that is from
inordinate desires of the flesh, & from covetousness & ambition [ffor if any man love ] as being contrary to the love of our neighbour.
the world the love of God
the flesh, the lust of the eye & the pride of life is not of the father but is
of the world &c.
to beleive aright in one God the father & one Lord Christ & in the Holy Ghost
& be baptized in their name & to love our neighbour as our selves, & being ad
mitted into by imposit of some particular Church by the impos governours
thereof upon these conditions, we are not to be deprived of that communion with
out breach of those conditions.
6 By communion I understand a fellowship in the worship of that Church so
as to joyn threceivin
the Eucharist, & by excommunication a deprivation of that communion. T
7 This communion men are appro Order of the board
of the governours of that Church & the Order uses
President of the board & the declaration uses to be accompanied by a
monythaccompanying , as of imposition of hands eby the president in cases of admission or readmission, or of swinging down a torch
in cases of excommunication.And this confir cer The Declaration by imposition
of 8 hands is a Iewish ceremony. We call it confirmation, meaning a confirmation
of what was done by the Godfathers in baptizing the Infant.
8.