 | John Disney - Sermons, English - 1793 - 516 pages
...congregations as flocks committed to our care, of whom we have taken the overfight, " not by conftraint but " willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a "...neither as being lords over " God's heritage, but being examples to the fl flock if." " Let our converfation be as it " becometh the gofpel of Chrift, ftand... | |
 | Richard Graves - Apostles - 1798 - 382 pages
...feed the flock of Chrift which is " among you, taking the overfight thereof, not by ** conftraint, but willingly ; not for filthy lucre, but " of a ready...neither as being lords over " God's heritage, but being enfamples to the flock ; ** and when the chief fliepherd mail appear, ye (hall " receive a crown of... | |
 | Emperors - 1799 - 200 pages
...may be expressed in his own words, " Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly ; not for...God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock." It would be difficult to imagine any contrast more striking and complete than that between Christ and... | |
 | 310 pages
...of God which is among you, taking tho oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not fur filthy lucre, but of a ready mind ; neither as being Lords over God's heritage, but being ensamplos to the flock.' (1 Pet. v. 1—3.) This question of Ministry will, perhaps, be better understood... | |
 | Nathaniel John Hollingsworth - Sermons, English - 1801 - 352 pages
...feed the flock of Chrift as much as in us *' lies, taking the overfight thereof; not by con** ftraint, but willingly ; not for filthy lucre, but *' of a...neither as being lords over *' God's heritage, but as being examples to the•*' flock ; that when the chief Shepherd fhall ap. *' pear, we may receive... | |
 | 1802 - 374 pages
...of God, which is among you, taking the overI^ Exhortation to faith II. Peter. and good works. sight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly ; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind ; 3 Neither us being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock : 4 And... | |
 | Religion - 1832 - 852 pages
...this his ecclesiastical realm, he had ' the care of all the churches. ' while he fed _ the oversight thereof,' ' not by constraint, but willingly,' ' not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,' — he gave himself wholly to his work of faith. He watched, with a searching eye, the... | |
 | Robert Barclay - 1803 - 176 pages
...Aiu feers, to feed the church of God f#). so. as. "p^jng the overllght thereof, not by conftraint, but willingly ; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready...; neither as being lords over God's heritage, but as being en3 * Pet. famples to the flock (j). Andfucb elders s' 2* 3' as rule well, are to be counted... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - Theology - 1803 - 680 pages
...could not prevail upon him to remove from you. So evident was it that he took the oversight of you, Not by constraint, but willingly ; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind f. It may eminently be said of you, my friends, in a spiritual sense, that you have been... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 738 pages
...could not prevail upon him to remove from you. So evident was it that he took the oversight of you, Not by constraint, but willingly ; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready It may eminently be said of you, my friends, in a spiritual sense, that you have been Fed with... | |
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Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind ; neither as being lords over God's heritage,... 
