Adopted at organization of the Ketocton Association August 19, 1776,
and reaffirmed by this Association exactly 200 years later, August 19,
1966.

  1. We believe there is one living and true God; that he is self- existent
      and independent, in whom all power, wisdom, holiness, justice,
      godliness truth center; who is omniscient and omnipotent - the
      Almighty Creator of all things that do exist, visible and invisible,
      who upholds and governs all things by His providential hand,
      according to the council of His own will.

  2. That in the divine essence there are (according to the scripture)
      three persons or subsistences, distinguished by the relative names
      of Father, Son and Holy Ghost; and that each subsistence possesses
      proper Deity; that the work of creation is ascribed to them; divine
      worship is addressed to each of them; each of them is called by
      divine names and in the name of Three in One, the New Testament
      ordinances are to be administered.

  3. That the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the
      word of God; that they were given by divine inspiration, and that
      this system of revelation comprehends everything necessary for
      us to know concerning God, and the direction of our obedience to
      Him. By this divine book, God hath made revelation of His
      gracious design in saving poor sinners, and pointing out the way
      through the mediation of the Lord Jesus; that through the
      instrumentality of this sacred word, that stubborn and obstinate
      sinners are brought into the ordinances of faith, and the incorrigible
      left without excuse; and that by this word of the Lord all men shall
      be judged in the last day.

  4. That man was created upright, free from sin, and possessed with
      holiness in nature; that he fell from that innocent state in which
      he was created, be transgressing God's command, by which he
      became morally dead, and subjected himself to bodily and eternal
      death, and as a public head involved his unborn progency in like
      ruin, for all descending from him by ordinary generation are born
      in a state of pollution, and under the domination of sin, and
      guilty before God.

  5. That in eternity, God, out of His own good pleasure, chose a
      certain number of Adam's progency to eternal life, and that He
      did not leave the accomplishment of His decrees to accident or
      chance; but decreed all the means to bring about the event;
      therefore they are chosen to salvation, through sanctification of the
      Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ.
      Their calling was decreed to the purpose of election. It is said, when
      called, they are called according to His purpose and grace given us
      in Christ Jesus before the world began; and all in order to manifest
      the glory of His grace.

  6. That the covenant of redemption was between the Father and the
      Son, that the elect were given by the Father to the Son, to be
      redeemed and finally saved; and that the Son,as Head and
      representative of His people, engaged to perform everything
      necessary or requisite to carry their complete salvation into
      effect. It is called in scripture, a well ordered covenant in all
      things, and sure.

  7. That in the fulness of time, the Son of God was manifested, by
      taking human nature into union with His divine person, in which
      capacity He wrought out a righteousness for the justification of His
      people, yeilding a perfect and spotless odedience to all the
      requirements of the divine law, and submitted Himself to the
      shameful and ignominious death on the cross, as an atonement for
      their sins, and reconciliation of their souls to God.

  8. That those that are redeemed by Christ, are in due time called
      to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus - embracing Him
      as the only way to God and Savior of poor sinners. This
      effectual calling is accomplished by the agency of the Holy Ghost
      operating in a free, irresistable and unfrustrable manner,
      by which the understanding is enlightened and the
      will subjected to Christ. Hence the scriptures testify that they
      are made willing in the day of His power. This eternal change or
      new birth in the soul is wholly ascribed to the Power of God; for it
      is said of the regenerate, they are begotten of God, quickened of
      God, born of God - all expressive that it is the Lord's work, and
      He is entitled to the praise.

  9. All that are effectually called by efficacious grace, are fully justified
      of God. This perfect obedience, or in other words, the righteousness
      of Christ being imputed to them, their sins are pardoned, and their
      persons accepted in God's beloved Son. Such are taken under the
      care of the great Shepard of souls, and rest on the infallible promises
      and power of God, which has engaged to protect them under all their
      trials; to succor them when tempted; to supply all their needs, and
      withhold no good thing from them; to continue the good work of grace
      begun in them, and crown the end of their faith in the complete
      salvation of their souls.

10. That being bought with the precious blood of Christ, and called by
      rich grace, it becomes a bounden duty to walk in all the
      commandments and ordanances of the Lord; although justified
      by grace, to which our works can add nothing, yet by good works the
      declarative glory of God is manifested, and the genuineness of faith
      proved, which while others behold, they may be led to glorify
      God who is in heaven.

11. And lastly, that God will judge men and angels in the last day, by
      Jesus Christ. That when Christ appears in the clouds of heaven
      with the sound of the trumpet, the dead saints shall be raised
      incorruptible and reunited to their soul; then shall they, together
      with the living saints, be caught up to meet the Lord in the air; and
      so shall they be forever with the Lord. The wicked will be raised
      likewise in that sinful state in which they died; and never having
      been regenerated and qualified by grace for the kingdom of heaven,
      will be sentenced to unspeakable torments, for ever and ever, from
      which there will be no recovery, to endless duration.

These Articles or Principles, of Faith, were supported and defended by
such ministers as Elders Jeremiah Moore, James Ireland, William and
Daniel Fristoe, David Thomas, John Alderson; and more recently by
Elders John Clark, W. S. Athey, Dr. C. H. Waters, T. N. Alderton,
T. S. Dalton, and many others.