 | 1837 - 528 pages
...keep us. Amen. Lesson 1. This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a 1 Tim. iii. 1 — 6. 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... | |
 | Fayette Mace - 1838 - 132 pages
...Paul, in his first epistle to Timothy, gave him the following instruction : " 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." The same injunction was laid on the deacons. It appears from this, that matrimony... | |
 | Thomas Powell (Wesleyan minister.) - 1838 - 192 pages
...some that were simply Bishops. The next passage is, 1 Tim. iii. I — 5 : '* 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... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1838 - 330 pages
...28, 29, 30, 31. ' Jer. xxiii. 2. 1. « Ezek. xxxiv. 2, 3, 4. 5 Ezek. xxii. 26. Mai. ii. 8, 9. 1 If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, as the steward of God ; vigilant, and of good behaviour, sober, just, holy, temperate ; not self-willed,... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1839 - 568 pages
...out, and to heal all manner of sickness, and all manner of disease, &c. (4) II. 1 Tim. iii. 1. — If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. Eph. iv. 11, 12. And he gave some, apostles ; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists ; and some,... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1838 - 236 pages
...God," as St. Paul expresses it; and none to whom his other words of inspiration might be applied, " If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work." They profess to found their practice on this passage of Scripture : — " Freely ye Itave received,... | |
 | Johann August W. Neander - Church history - 1838 - 462 pages
...asserting this, I do not contend with that which the apostle Paul saith : ' This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work,' but I entirely agree jTim.In. with his words. For I deem it not evil, to strive after the office, but... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - Bethany (W. Va.) - 1839 - 616 pages
...which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons. 1 Tim. 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, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach, not... | |
 | Sermons, English - 1839 - 612 pages
...have some directions that will guide our inquiries upon this subject : " This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must he blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt... | |
 | John Donne - Sermons - 1839 - 634 pages
...dignity to the function and office of the ministry, ho proposes it so, It is a true saying, if any man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good -work*: it is a work, not an occasion and opportunity of ease. And lastly, when he provokes men to glorify... | |
| |
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... 
