...'1 Cor. iv. 1 4. I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. Ver. 1 5. For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: 202 293 performance of those ditties which we mutually owe in our several relations, as inferiors,...

...apostle Paul styles himself a father : — ' Though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers ; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.' He -had been the instrument of their conversion, and was therefore their spiritual . father. So, speaking...

...word of life." Philifi. ii. 16. To the Corinthian converts Paul says, "as my beloved sons, I warn you. For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ,...yet have ye not many fathers ; for in Christ Jesus J have begotten you through the gosfiel." iCor.iv. 15 Paulhad prepared them, through preaching the...

...converts Paul says, " as my beloved sons, I warn you. For though ye have ten thousand instrijctors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers ; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gosfiel." \ Cor. iv. 15. Paul had prepared them, through preaching the law, by which is the knowledge...

...Just so God does in his church ; and, therefore, in the words of St. Paul, I tell you, though you may have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers 5 for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospel ; wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers...

...2 Cor. xii. 10. TKXT. , 15 For, though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye uot many fathers: for, in Christ Jesus, I have begotten...you, be ye followers of me. 17 For this cause have I scut unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into...

...i 1 Cor. iv. 14. I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. Ver. 15. For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ,...Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. Ver. 16. Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me. 2 Kings v. 13. [See letter e.] 126. k Eph.v....

...reference to visible Church membership. On this subject, it was no overstrained figure to say to them — " Though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ,...Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel." But what analogy is there between such a saying, on such a subject, and in a glow of mind excited by...

...with the word of truth," James i. 18. And ministers of the gospel are called spiritual fathers ; " for though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers, for in Christ I have begotten you through the gospel." The same he says of his son Onesimus, whom he had " begotten...

...Correspondent with Paul's commission, and divine endowments, before stated, he writes to the Corinthian Church, "For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have .ye not many Fathers; for in Christ .Team J have begotten you through the gospel. Wherefore, I beseech you, be yft followers of me. It...