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THE PRIMITIVE BAPTIST COVENANT
For
as much as Almighty God has been pleased to call us out of darkness into his light, and having been baptized upon a profession
of faith in Christ Jesus, and having given ourselves to the Lord and one another, in a Gospel Church way, to be governed and
guided by a proper discipline agreeable to the word of God: we do Covenant together by the help of God to keep up the discipline
of the Church of which we are members in brotherly affection toward each other, to watch over one another, and, if need be,
in the tender, and affectionate manner, to reprove one another. We also agree with God's assistance to attend our Church meetings,
and not absent ourselves from the Communion of the Lord's Supper without a lawful reason.
These things we do Covenant
and agree to observe and keep sacred in the name of, and by the assistance of God.
Amen
HISTORICAL
GLANCE
By
Reverend D. A. Belford
A few years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Elder W. A. McDonald of
West Virginia came to Leon County and soon was connected with Elder Henry McDonald, who had been a slave of Elder W. A. McDonald's
father. The two men rejoined themselves for they had grown up together in West Virginia. They recognized that there was no
Primitive Baptist Church organized.
On June 15, 1866, the Elders drew up guidelines for operating the Primitive Baptist
Church and organized the Florida Primitive Baptist Association. After much growth in the Association, the brethren in Georgia
organized the South Georgia Association under the leadership of Elder Andrew Sims. From the group grew the Old West Florida
Association. The group thereafter was renamed the Middle Florida Georgia Primitive Baptist Association.
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