| William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...edifying, &c. from which some having swerved, have turned aside unto vain jangling. — 1 Tim. i. 4. 6. If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work: a bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife ; vigilant, sober. of good behaviour (or modest) ; given to hospitality, apt... | |
| 1828 - 220 pages
...Lord. Amen. ^f And another Bishop shall read the Epistle. 1 Tim. iii. 1. THIS is a true saying, If a man desire the Office of a Bishop, he desireth a good work. A Bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; not... | |
| Cyrus Yale - Clergy - 1828 - 320 pages
...an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.' 1 Timothy iii. 1 — 7. 'This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must .be blameless, &c.' 2 Timothy ii. 24, 25. ' And the servant of the Lord must not strive, &c.' Exodus iii. 12, and... | |
| John Everitt Good - Sermon on the mount - 1829 - 692 pages
...SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, YE SHALL IN NO CASE ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN." "Tms is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work."* But, if it be good, it is also responsible and laborious, and can only be properly performed by much... | |
| Robert Taylor - Free thinkers and freethought - 1829 - 466 pages
...standing, and of such high honour and emolument, that it could have become a common adage, that " if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work;" many of the community having held that office in such a way as to render it necessary, in the election... | |
| Methodist Church - 1839 - 512 pages
...great particularity the qualifications of ministers of the word. He says, " This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach ; not... | |
| Philip Doddridge - 1830 - 586 pages
...Mr. Watson, of Leicester, preached a suitable sermon from 1 Tim. iii. 1, ' This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.' After the sermon Mr. Norris, of-Welford, read the Call of the Church, of which I declared my Acceptance:... | |
| William Swan - Missionaries - 1830 - 372 pages
...before all others, feeling more powerfully the impulse of holy motives, more steadily resisting * " If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work," 1 Tim. iii. 1. The word desire occurs twice here ; but it is not the same word in the Greek in both... | |
| Philip Doddridge - 1830 - 586 pages
...Mr. Watson, of Leicester, preached a suitable sermon from 1 Tim. iii. 1, ' This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.' After the sermon Mr. Norris, of Welford, read the Call of the Church, of which I declared my Acceptance:... | |
| Hugh James Rose - Clergy - 1831 - 332 pages
...ministers. I do not consider all as forward, who seek to be overseers of the flock of Christ; for, ' if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.' But accept no candidate for this office, unless he ' be blameless, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour,'... | |
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