...Your Correspondent seems to derive some support for his" opinion from 2 Tim. ii. 2. " The things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same...commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.'' But, surely, the passage bears much more the appearance of a direction, to give...

...of this apostasy in the Christian church, the Apostle instructs Timothy (ii. 2); " The things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same...commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also;" thereby making provision for a succession and enlargement of teachers and preachers...

...generations of Christians. The things which thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, said Paul to Timothy, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others. The testimony of Jesus was maintained in the lowest state of the church, in the days...

...the succession to which the deposit of the faith was to be intrusted, St. Paul writes to Timothy : " The things which thou hast " heard of me among many...shall be able " to teach others also." (2 Tim. ii. 2.) Rules are given concerning the different parts of worship, " supplications, prayers, intercessions,...

...words, which thou has heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." " And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same...commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also." " I charge thee, therefore, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge...

...therefore, my son," he says, " be strong in the grace that is in " Christ Jesus : and the things that thou " hast heard of me among many witnesses, " the...commit thou to faithful men, " who shall be able to teach others also *." ' Chap. ii. 1, 2. K The words of ray text point out to you the melancholy circumstances...

...Various direclions. . . . T . J , • . , , p is in Christ Jesus. And the things that thou hast heard 2 of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. Thou therefore endure 3 hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that...

...ability, it is so much without which the necessary acts of the office cannot be done. " The things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same...shall be able to teach others also.' ' (2 Tim. ii. 2.) 3. The approving judgment of other senior ministers is ordinarily necessary ; for men are not to...

...for exercising of this power to Timothy, which sheweth the ordinary way of calling, 2 Tim. ii. 2. " And the things which thou hast heard of me among many...commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also." " There were in the church at Antioch certain prophets • As they ministered to...

...the sacred office, in this department of his duty, of the Christian minister. " The things 22 that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same...commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also." The precept of the Apostle has been obeyed : and the continual succession of the...