The Second London Baptist Confession of Faith Paragraph 26.12

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As all believers are bound to join themselves to particular churches, when and where they have opportunity so to do; so all that are admitted unto the privileges of a church, are also under the censures and government thereof, according to the rule of Christ.⁠¹⁠

expand_more [1] 1 Thessalonians 5:14; 2 Thessalonians 3:6, 14–15

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Who is under the government of the local church?

All who joined to that church

All non-elders who have joined to that church

All who live within the vicinity

No man is subject to any but Christ

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