Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (modernized) · Chapter 26
Of the Church
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9. The way appointed by Christ for the Calling of any Person, fitted and gifted by the Holy Spirit, unto the Office of Bishop, or Elder, in a Church, is, that he be chosen thereunto by the common suffrage of the Church itself; and solemnly set apart by Fasting and Prayer, with Imposition of Hands of thea Eldership of the Church, if there be any before Constituted therein: And of a Deaconb that he be chosen by the like suffrage, and set apart by Prayer, and the like Imposition of Hands.c
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- Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689) 26.9
- Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order (modernized, 1658) 33.11
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