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The Second London Baptist Confession of Faith Paragraph 26.9
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| 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;1 and solemnly set apart by fasting and prayer, with imposition of hands of the eldership of the church, if there be any before constituted therein;2 and of a deacon that he be chosen by the like suffrage, and set apart by prayer, and the like imposition of hands.3 |
[1]
Acts 14:23
[2]
1 Timothy 4:14
[3]
Acts 6:3, 5–6
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Other elders
The congregation
The head bishop
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