Foreasmuch as Almighty God by His grace has been pleased to call us, whose names are underneath subscribed, out of darkness into His marvelous light, and all of us having been regularly baptized upon a profession of our faith in Christ Jesus, and having given ourselves up to the Lord and to one another in a gospel church way to be governed and guided by a proper discipline, agreeable to the word of God; we do therfore, in the name of our Lord Jesus and by His assistance covenant and agree to keep up the discipline of the Church of which we are members in the most brotherly affection toward each other, while we endeavor particularly to observe the following rules, viz; In brotherly love pray for each other, to watch over one another in love, and, if need be, in the most tender and affectionate manner, to reprove one another. That is, if we discover anything amiss in a brother, to go and tell him his fault according to the direction given by our Lord in the eighteenth chaper of Matthew, and not be whispering and backbiting, or speaking evil one of another, to live at each others feet, to labor by the help of the Lord to keep ourselves unspotted from the world by living honest, truthful, sober, upright lives, walking as children of the light.

We also agree in love to visit each other and care for one another in sickness or distress, to care for the poor as God has prospered us, and to aid the true faithful Pastor that in love freely sows to us spiritual things as God's word directs, and as we in love have purposed in our hearts.

We also agree in love to attend our regular meetings as far as able, and that we are satisfied with the doctrine, order, and practice of the Primitive Baptist's just as they have contended for it from the Apostolic age until the present time.

We endorse refusing to fellowship boards, conventions, theological schools, a salaried ministry, sunday schools, all man made religious societies, all oath bound secret orders, instrumental music in the worship of God, alien baptism, etc., believing that the Primitive Baptist Church is the orgainic body of Christ, and should ever be separate and distinct from the world in faith and practice, and that we should strive for the things that make for peace, and that we should not tolerate any unscriptural measure that would alienate us as a church from our brethren of like precious faith.

We as a church desire the love, union, and fellowship of orderly Primitive Baptists everywhere.

Comments: This covenant was signed by the charter members of Zion Primitive Baptist Church. It is understood that all who are regularly baptized or received into membership be letter of recommendation from another orderly Primitive Baptist Church, by relation of faith, or by restoration are in effect adding their names to the undersigned of this covenant.