That this ministry is exactly¹ described, distinguished, limited, concerning their office, their calling to their office, their administration of their office, and their maintenance in their office, by most perfect and plain laws² in God’s Word, which laws it is not lawful for these ministers, or for the whole church wittingly to neglect, transgress, or violate in any part; nor yet to receive any other laws brought into the church by any person whatsoever.

1. Proverbs 8:8–9; Acts 6:3, 5–6; 14:23; 20:17ff.; 1 Corinthians 5:4–5, 11–13ff.; 9:7, 9, 14; 1 Timothy 1:1–6:21; Hebrews 3:2, 6; 1 Peter 5:2–3 ↩︎
2. Deuteronomy 4:2; 12:32; Galatians 1:8–9; 1 Timothy 6:13–14; 2 Timothy 3:14–15; Hebrews 2:3; 3:3; 12:25ff.; Revelation 22:18–19 ↩︎