 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1874 - 820 pages
...public STATE or COMMONWEALTH ; and do, for ourselves and our successors and such as shall be adjoined to us at any time hereafter, enter into combination and...discipline of the churches which, according to the truth of the gospel, is now practiced among us." Then follow eleven articles or "Orders "(sections of a constitution,... | |
 | 1840 - 428 pages
...and do, for ourselves and our successors, aud such as shall be adjoined to us at any time hereaAer, enter into combination and confederation together,...discipline of the churches, which, according to the trnth of said gospel, ia now practised amongst us ; as also in our cicil affairs to be guided and governed... | |
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God, to order and dispose of the affairs of the people at all seasons as occasion shall require; do therefore associate and conjoin ourselves to be as one Public State or Commonwealth; and do for ourselves and our successors and such as shall be adjoined... 
