Confession Library / 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith / Of the Church
LBCF1689 26.9
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;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