Particular Synods and Delegates Ad Examina

(Every year [or if need be oftener] four or five or more neighboring classes shall meet as a particular synod, to which each classis shall delegate two ministers and two elders. At the close of both the particular and the general synod, some church shall be empowered to determine with advice of classis, the time and place of the next synod.)  Church Order, Article 47.  (Each synod shall be at liberty to solicit and hold correspondence with its neighboring synod or synods in such manner as they...