Philadelphia Confession of Faith · Chapter 27

Of the Church

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8. A particular Church gathered, and compleatly organized according to the Mind of Christ, consists of Officers and Members: And the Officers appointed by Christ to be chosen and set apart by the Church (so called and gathered) for the peculiar Administration of Ordinances, and Execution of Power, or Duty, which he intrusts them with, or calls them to, to be continued to the End of the World, are Bishops, or Elders and Deacons.^a

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aActs 20:17, 28; Philippians 1:1

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Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689) 26.8

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