Community Rule
The purpose of the Community — to seek God with a whole heart, to walk in the way of His commandments, and to enter the covenant of grace.
1For 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.
2Even 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.
3To 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.
4That 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.
5And 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.
6They 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.
7All 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.
