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Chief Articles of Faith

Article XIV. Of Ecclesiastical Order

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Of Ecclesiastical Order they teach that no one should publicly teach in the Church or administer the Sacraments unless he be regularly called.

Philip Melanchthon, The Augsburg Confession (1530), in the translation of the Triglot Concordia (1921). Public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg (eBook #275).