Ordinary call: church election by pastors, magistrate, people; requisites
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The means of ordinary calling is the Church's lawful election.God gave His church the keys of the kingdom and entrusted word and sacraments; therefore the church elects ministers through three orders: the eldership or pastors; magistrates as nursing fathers; and the Christian people.
Paul teaches the requisites (1 Tim. 3; Tit. 1): common—faithful, blameless, sober, hospitable, just; proper to the office—apt to teach, holding sound doctrine, able to exhort and refute opponents, not neophytes.
Latin
Medium vocationis ordinariae est electio Ecclesiae legitima. Deus ecclesiae suae dedit claves regni caelorum (Matt. 16:18; 18:17) verbumque et sacramenta concredidit. Quapropter ecclesia Dei eligit et vocat ministros per tres ordines: (1) presbyterii sive pastorum ecclesiae (Acts 14:23; 1 Tim. 4:14; Tit. 1:5); (2) magistratuum, qui sunt membra ecclesiae et nutritii (Isa. 49:23); (3) populi Christiani (Acts 6:3; 14:23; 1 Cor. 16:3). Quales personae eligendae sint docet Paulus (1 Tim. 3; Tit. 1): communia—fideles, irreprehensibiles, sobrii, hospitales, iusti; propria—apti ad docendum, tenaces sanae doctrinae, potentes exhortari et contradicentes refellere, non neophyti.