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THIRD HEAD:
OF DOCTRINE, SACRAMENTS, AND CEREMONIES
53 - 54 Form of Subscription for all Officebearers and Teachers
55 Publication Approval
56 - 60 Baptism Procedures
61 - 63 Lord's Supper Procedures
64 Evening Prayer Service Procedures
65 Funeral Services
66 Prayer Days
67 Special Days to be Observed
68 Catechism Preaching
69 Congregational Singing
70 Church Weddings
FOURTH HEAD:
OF CENSURE AND ECCLESIASTICAL ADMONITION
71 The Nature of Church Discipline
72 - 74 Private Sin Procedures
75 Public Sin Procedures and Confession of Guilt
76 Silent Censure
77 - 78 Steps of Public Censure and Excommunication
79 - 80 Censure and Deposition of Officebearers
81 Officebearers' Exercise of Christian Censure
82 - 83 Membership Transfer Procedures
84 Equality of Churches and Officebearers
85 Kindred Churches
86 Church Order Revision

ministers in every place where this is not yet done shall take steps with the government to have them conform with the others.

Article 69

In the churches, only the 150 Psalms of David, the Ten Commandments, the Lord's Prayer, the Twelve Articles of Faith, the Song of Mary, that of Zacharias, and that of Simeon shall be sung. It is left to the individual churches whether or not to use the hymn "Oh God! who art our Father ." All other hymns are to be excluded from the churches, and in those places where some have already been introduced, they are to be removed by the most suitable means.

Article 73

Secret sins of which the sinner repents after being admonished by one person in private or in the presence of two or three witnesses, shall not be laid before the consistory.

Article 75

The reconciliation of all such sins as are of their nature of a public character, or have become public because the admonition of the church was despised, shall take place, when definite signs of repentance are evident, publicly, by the judgment of the consistory; and in rural districts or smaller towns having only one minister, with the advice of two neighboring churches, in such a form and manner as shall be judged to be conducive to the edification of each church.

Article 86

These articles, relating to the lawful order of the churches, have been so drafted and adopted by common consent, that they, if the profit of the churches demand otherwise, may and ought to be altered, augmented, or diminished. However, no particular congregation, classis, or synod shall be at liberty to do so, but they shall show all diligence in observing them, until it be otherwise ordained by the General or National Synod.



MEMORIZATION

THE APOSTLES' CREED

I. I believe in God the Father, Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth:

II. And in Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, our Lord:

III. Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary:

IV. Suffered under Pontius Pilate; was crucified, dead, and buried: He descended into hell:

V. The third day He rose again from the dead:

VI. He ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty:

VII. From thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead:

VIII. I believe in the Holy Ghost:

IX. I believe an holy catholic church: the communion of saints:

X. The forgiveness of sins:

XI. The resurrection of the body:

XII. And the life everlasting. AMEN.

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