...be found faithful."5 " This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, (or overseer,) 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 given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy...

...particle. Neither do I mean the rigid exactness of those scru» 1 Epist. to Timothy, c. iii. v. 2. " A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach." pulous pedantic grammarians, who had rather spend three...

...he ciid not desire a mere- pompous outside show, but a good work. Hence Paul says, 1 Tim. iii. 1, " If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work." He prays then for the wrath of God upon them, not as desiring that they should be destroyed, but, that,...

...crops. The first institution of Bishopricks, St. Paul has well explained in his letter to Timothy. " If a man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth a. good "work:" — not in the sense in which ecclesiastical offices are now spoken of; as when we say, "Mr. A. has...

...he did not desire a mere pompous outside show, but a good work. Hence Paul says, 1 Tim. iii. 1 , " If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work." He prays then for the wrath of God upon them, not as desiring that they should be destroyed, but, that,...

...Neither do I mean the rigid exactness of those scru* 1 Epist. to Timothy, c. iii. v. 2. "A bishop theu must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach." 12 4 i*d rather span tian let it pas i 3«ethod of...

...able by sound doctrine both to exhort and convince the gaiusayers. 1 Tim. iii, 2 — 7. ' A bishop must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy...

...child-bearing, if they continue in faith, and charity, and holiness with sobriety. This is a true saying ; If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth...the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach ; not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy...

...of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. I TIM. iii. 1, 2 : 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. PHI. i. 1: To all the saints in Christ Jesus, which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons....

...to the ground. So they read in the book, in the law of God distinctly. — 158. kl Tim. iii. 2, 6. A bishop, then, must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach ; not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride, ho fall...