...our Lord. Amen. ^f And another Bishop shall read the Epistle. 1 Tim. iii. 1. 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...

...SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, YE SHALL IN NO CASE ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN." "Tms is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work."* But, if it be good, it is also responsible and laborious, and can only be properly performed by much...

...well, purpre-eminency above all of the chase to themselves a good debishop." — See chap. 10. gree. If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — 1 Timothy iii, 13. ROYAL PRIESTS. AMONG the ancient Greeks, the dignity of the priesthood was esteemed...

...before all others, feeling more powerfully the impulse of holy motives, more steadily resisting * " If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work," 1 Tim. iii. 1. The word desire occurs twice here ; but it is not the same word in the Greek in both...

...then Mr. Watson, of Leicester, preached a suitable sermon from 1 Tim. iii. 1, ' This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.' After the sermon Mr. Norris, of Welford, read the Call of the Church, of which I declared my Acceptance:...

...then Mr. Watson, of Leicester, preached a suitable sermon from 1 Tim. iii. 1, ' This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.' After the sermon Mr. Norris, of-Welford, read the Call of the Church, of which I declared my Acceptance:...

...great particularity the qualifications of ministers of the word. He says, " 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...

...ministers. I do not consider all as forward, who seek to be overseers of the flock of Christ; for, ' if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.' But accept no candidate for this office, unless he ' be blameless, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour,'...

...qualification — " This is a true saying" (his peculiar mark of emphasis, i. 15. iv. 9. 2 Tim. ii. 11.) " If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work."f The apostle evidently intends to mark a constraining desire, an excitement much beyond that...

...called d, or that is worshipped, &c. After the apostle declared, (1 Tim. iii. 1,) This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work ; a bishop must be blameless, the husband of one wife, &c. ; — he looks forward prophetically to...