VII.
A Magistrate may be called to the Office of an Elder in the Consistory, provided that the Exercise of the one Office doth not interfere with the other, and may not be prejudicial to the Church.
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A Magistrate may be called to the Office of an Elder in the Consistory, provided that the Exercise of the one Office doth not interfere with the other, and may not be prejudicial to the Church.
What I have said to the 5th Article, may very well be applied to this.