# First Hevetic Confession
Article 18 - The Election of Ministers
For this function is not to be granted to anyone who has not found and judged that the ministers of the Church, and those to whom this business has been entrusted by a Christian magistrate in the name of the Church, are unique both in the knowledge of the divine law, and in the innocence of life, and in the study of the name of Christ. Which, although it is the true election of God, is nevertheless rightly verified by the vote of the church and the imposition of the hands of the elders.

[Luke 12](/get-passage/Luke+12); [Acts 1](/get-passage/Acts+1); [Acts 6](/get-passage/Acts+6); [1 Timothy 3](/get-passage/1+Timothy+3); [Titus 1](/get-passage/Titus+1); [Hebrews 6](/get-passage/Hebrews+6).