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Community Rule
Chapter 1
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For the Master, that he may instruct the holy ones to live according to the rule of the Community: to seek God with a whole heart and soul, and to do what is good and right before Him.
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Even as He hath commanded by the hand of Moses, and by the hand of all His servants the prophets — to love everything which He hath chosen, and to hate everything which He hath rejected; to keep far from every evil, and to cleave to every good work.
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To do truth and righteousness and justice upon earth; to walk no more in the stubbornness of a guilty heart, neither in lustful eyes — committing every kind of evil; but to bring all them that have offered themselves freely to do God's commandments into a covenant of grace.
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That they may be united in the counsel of God, and may walk perfectly before Him in keeping with all that hath been revealed concerning their appointed times — that they may love all the children of light, each according to his lot in the design of God; and may hate all the children of darkness, each according to his guilt in the vengeance of God.
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And all them that offer themselves for His truth shall bring all their knowledge, and their strength, and their wealth into the Community of God — that they may purify their knowledge in the truth of God's precepts; and may dispose their strength according to His perfect ways; and may dispose all their wealth according to His just counsel.
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They shall not depart from any commandment of God concerning their appointed times. They shall not advance their seasons; nor shall they retard any of their feasts. They shall not turn aside from His true precepts, going either to the right or to the left.
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All them that enter the rule of the Community shall enter into the covenant before God — to do all that He hath commanded, and not to turn back from following Him for any fear, or terror, or trial, that may befall them in the dominion of Belial.
