The President. WILL you be ready, with all faithful diligence, to banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God's word; and to use both public and private admonitions and exhortations, as well to the sick as to the whole, within your district, as need shall require, and occasion shall be given? Answer. I will, the Lord being my helper. The President. WILL you ILL you be diligent in prayers, and in reading of the holy Scriptures, and in such studies as help to the knowledge of the same, laying aside the study of the world and the flesh? Answer. I will endeavour so to do, the Lord being my helper. The President. WILL you be diligent to frame and fashion your own selves, and your families, (if you have, or shall have any,) according to the doctrine of Christ; and to make both yourselves and them, as much as in you lieth, wholesome examples and patterns to the flock of Christ? Answer. I shall apply myself thereto, the Lord being my helper. The President. maintain and set WILL you maintain wards, as much as lieth in you, quietness, peace, and love among all Christian people, and especially among them that are or shall be committed to your charge? Answer. I will do so, the Lord being my helper. The President. WILL you reverently obey your chief Ministers, unto whom is committed the charge and government over you; following with a glad mind and will their godly admonitions, and submitting yourselves to their godly judgments? Answer. I will do so, the Lord being my helper. A ¶ Then shall the President say, LMIGHTY God, who hath given you this will to do all these things; Grant also unto you strength and power to perform the same; that he may accomplish his work which he hath begun in you; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ¶ Then the President shall move the Congregation present to pray, saying thus to them : BRE RETHREN, it is written in the Saviour Christ continued the whole night in prayer, before he did choose and send forth his twelve Apostles. It is written also in the Acts of the Apostles, that the Disciples who were at Antioch did fast and pray before they laid hands on Paul and Barnabas, and sent them forth. Let us therefore, following the example of our Saviour Christ, and his Apostles, first fall to prayer, before we admit and send forth these persons presented unto us to the work whereunto we trust the Holy Ghost hath called them. After this the Congregation shall be desired, secretly in their Prayers, to make their humble supplications to God for all these things; for which Prayers there shall be silence kept for a space. The following Prayers shall then be read by the President. ALMIGHTY God, giver of all good things, Mercifully behold these thy servants now called to the office and work of Ministers and Pastors in thy church; and replenish them so with the truth of thy doctrine, and adorn them with innocency of life, that both by word and good example they may faithfully serve thee in this office, to the glory of thy Name, and the edification of thy church; through the merits of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, world without end. Amen. ALMIGHTY God, and heavenly Father, who of thine infinite love and goodness towards us hast given to us thy only and most dearly beloved Son Jesus Christ, to be our Redeemer, and the Author of everlasting life; who, after he had made perfect our redemption by his death, and was ascended into heaven, sent abroad into the world his Apostles, Prophets, P |