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Philadelphia Confession of Faith · Chapter 27

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 it self; 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

Notes

  1. *See the Original.

Proofs

Each links to the Scripture index: what else cites the passage.

  1. aActs 14:23
  2. b1 Timothy 4:14
  3. cActs 6:3, 5–6

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