...as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 1 Cor. iz. 5. A bishop then must bo blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober,...good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach, 1 Tim. iii. 2. Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to...

...blood, 28. This ú 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, riven to hospitality, apt to teach : Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre ; but...

...man would draw up a feigned letter, or introduce a supposititious fact. * No. III. Chap. iii. 2, 3. " A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good be. haviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach ; not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy...

...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,...filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous ; ohe that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity ; (for if...

...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...good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach." pulous pedantic grammarians, who had rather spend three hours in mending a period, than let it pass...

...cherished the desire of such an office — " A bishop then," says the Almighty, " a bishop then must be — one that ruleth well his own house, having his children...subjection, with all gravity ; for if a man know not horn to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the Church of God ?" The deacons, too, it seems,...

...and why he calls it "a good work," is shown in what immediately follows: " For, (says he) a bishop must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant,...good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach," &c. As therefore, (the apostle would say,) these are the works of a bishop, he that desireth the office...

...and why he calls it "a good work," is shown in what immediately follows: " For, (says he) a bishop must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant,...good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach," &c. As therefore, (the apostle would say,) these are the works of a bishop, he that desireth the office...

...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,...good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach." 12 4 i*d rather span tian let it pas i 3«ethod of acchr, as a man o: t _ ireer- ir * HAM, containin*...

...made in the teeth of the Apostle Paul, who tells us that a Bishop must be "the husband of one wife, ...one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity ;"f. • .who says, " Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, rulingtheirchildren and their own...