Chapter 7 establishes Elders, who attend to the boundaries of the church-admitting members to fellowship, excommunicating offenders, be guides and leaders in church administration, admonish the flock when needed-and deacons, who care only for the temporal goods of the church, handling money, paying the ministers and the poor.
Membership requires "a personal and public confession and declaring of God's manner of working upon the soul" [REF].