"...shall be held for the use of the members of a Regular Baptist Church, which shall be exclusively composed of persons who have been baptized by immersion, on a personal profession of their faith in Christ, and holding the following doctrines, that is to say:

• the being and unity of God;
• the existence of three equal persons in the Godhead;
• the inspiration of the Old and New Testaments;
• the total depravity of man;
• election according to the foreknowledge of God;
• the Divinity of Christ and the all-sufficiency of His atonement;
• justification by faith alone in the righteousness of Christ;
• the work of the Holy Spirit in regeneration;
• perseverance of the saints;
• the resurrection of the dead;
• the final judgment;
• the punishment of the wicked and the blessedness of the righteous, both eternal;
• the immersion of believers in water in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the only baptism;
• the Lord's Supper, a privilege peculiar to baptized believers;
• a Church, a company of baptized believers voluntarily associated and meeting in one place on the first day of the week for mutual edification and the maintenance and propagation of these doctrines;
• the Word of God, a complete and infallible rule of faith and practice;
• the religious observance of the first day of the week;  and
• the obligation of every intelligent creature to believe the record which God has given of His Son."