 | Church of Scotland - Prebyterianism - 1768 - 576 pages
...wife, vigilant, fober, of good behaviour, given to hofpitality, apt to teach : v. 6. Net a nevicc, ted being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil. Eph. iv. 8. Wherefore he faid, When he afcended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts... | |
 | Assembly of divines confess. and catech, Church of Scotland - Church of Scotland - 1773 - 570 pages
...a man know not how to rule his own houfe, how ihall he take care of the church of God?) v. 6. Nota novice, left being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil. Tit. i. 5. For this caufe left I thee in Crete, that thou mould fet in order the things that are wanting,... | |
 | Joseph Milner - 1794 - 612 pages
...whole eftates for their benefit. It was an excellent rule of the Apoftle's concerning ordination, " Not a novice, left, being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil." There appeared however in Cyprian a fpirit at once fo fimple, fo zealous, and ib intelligent, that... | |
 | Books - 1795 - 618 pages
...fhould therefore be, " Knowing, brethren beloved by God, that you are elecled [or chofen] by him." " Moreover, he muft have a good report of them which are without — ." (i Tim. iii. 7.) What? Was no one proper for the office of a bifnop, who did not hear a fair... | |
 | John Gill - Theology, Doctrinal - 1796 - 570 pages
...from the scriptures, that their sin was, I. Piide ; and which seems probable from I Tim. in. 6. Not a novice, left being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil; being guilty of the same sin, he is in danger of the same condemnation ; and usually so it is, as the... | |
 | Universalism - 1797 - 572 pages
...into the fame condemnation as Satan, having a fimilar fentence pafled upon him for a fimilar crime : " Moreover, he muft have a good report of them which...he fall into reproach and the fnare of the Devil." Happy would it be for mankind had the church of God many evangelical paftors ; men of this character,... | |
 | William Kingsbury - 1798 - 64 pages
...J,ife, PP; d", 53 , and Biographia Evangelica, vol. II. p. 122. E2 " with '-; with all gravity ; not a novice, left being lifted up " with pride he fall...into the condemnation of the " devil. Moreover, he fnvjl have a good report " of them which are ruithout, lejl he fall into reproach, " and the fnare... | |
 | Joseph Milner - Church history - 1800 - 694 pages
...their benefit. It was. an excellent rule of the Apoftle concerning ordination, " Not a novice, letl, being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil." 1 here appeared, however,, in Cyprian a fpirit at once fo fimple, fo zealous, and fo intelligent, that... | |
 | Charles Whitfield - 1801 - 210 pages
...Numb, iv. The fpiritof this is yet in force with regard to all officers in the chriftian church. Not a novice, left, being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil.* . This clearly fhews, that fuch muft not be young converts neither to the truth, piety, nor virtue... | |
 | William Jones - Theology - 1801 - 354 pages
...these things is the life of my spirit; so wilt thou re$over me, and make. me to live ! SERMON XV. LEST, BEING LIFTED UP WITH PRIDE, HE FALL INTO THE CONDEMNATION OF THE DEVIL. 1 TIM. Hi. 6. CONVERTS of little experience in the Christian Faith were disposed to be vain, when they... | |
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Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without ; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. 
