Our Church Order

No one, though he be a Professor of The­ology, Elder or Deacon, shall be permitted to enter upon the ministry of the Word and the Sacraments without having been law­fully called thereunto, and when any one acts contrary thereto, and after being fre­quently admonished does not desist, the Classis shall judge whether he is to be de­clared a schismatic or is to be punished in some other way. In our previous article I stated that with few excep­tions the consensus of opinion among Reformed...