The Office of Elders (2)

The office of elders in addition to what was said in Article 16 to be their duty is common with the Ministers of the Word, is to take heed that the Ministers together with their Office and both before and after the Lord's Supper, as time and circumstances may de­mand for the edification of the churches to visit the families of the congregation, in or­der particularly to comfort and instruct the members, and also to exhort others in re­spect to the Christian religion. As was before said, three...