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In 1787 these ministers and congregations had united as a "corpus evangelicum" under the following title: "Unio Ecclesiastica of the German Protestant Churches in the State of South Carolina." Pastor Daser was chosen Senior Ministerii. A third meeting was held August 12, 1788; President Daser presented a constitution, which was adopted. Among other things it provided: 1.
The Professors of Leyden condemn private baptism as inordinate, because baptismus publici ministerii, non privatæ exhortationis est appendix. It is marked in the fourth century, both out of councils and fathers, that it was not then permitted to communicate in private places; but this custom was thought inordinate and unbeseeming.
And Tilen teacheth us, that when the church hath determined the mutable circumstances, in the worship of God, for public edification, privatorum conscientiis liberum est quandoque ista omittere, modo offendicula vitentur, nihil que ex contemptu ecclesiae ac ministerii publici petulanti καινοτομια vel κειοδοξια facere videantur. Sect. 6.
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