 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 682 pages
...greedy of filthy lucre, holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. And let these also Jirst be proved, then let them use the office of a Deacon, being found blameless. (1 Tim. u'i. 8 — 10.) Can any reasonable objection be alleged against the ministerial office 1 But... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 684 pages
...greedy of ßlthy lucre, holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. And let these alio ßrsl be proved, then let them use the office of a Deacon, being found blameless. (1 Tim. iii. 8 — 10.) Can any reasonable objection be alleged against the ministerial office ? But... | |
 | 998 pages
...greedy of filthy lucre ; holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience ; and let these be first proved, then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless : let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well ; for... | |
 | John Milton - Theology, Doctrinal - 1825 - 472 pages
...ministers should undergo a certain trial previous to their admission. 1 Tim. iii. 10. ' let these also first be proved ; then let them use the office of a deacon, being fouud blameless.' The requisite qualifications of an elder, as well as of a deacon, are detailed at... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodist Church - 1825 - 742 pages
...Apostle Paul was, to prove a man before he was ordained at all. " Let these," (the Deacons,) says he, " first be proved ; then let them use the office of a deacon:" (I Tim. iii. 10 :) I'rovcd ? How? By setting them to construe a sentence of Greek, and asking them... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1827 - 590 pages
...facvltatem. Amd far this practice, they beliere they have the authority of au express command of God : " Let these first be proved : then let them use the office of a deacon being found blameless." 1 Tim. iii. 10. 13. " In England, however, there is nothing of this kind ; no layman is permitted to... | |
 | Jonathan Law Pomeroy - Sermons, American - 1826 - 332 pages
...not greedy of filthy lucre. Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. And let those also first be proved, then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless. For they that have used the office of a deacon well, purchase to themselves a good degree and great... | |
 | John Owen - Puritans - 1826 - 640 pages
...not greedy of filthy lucre, holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. And let these also first be proved ; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless ; the husbands of one wife, ruling their children, and their own houses well. For they that have used... | |
 | 1827 - 524 pages
...greedy of filthy lucre, holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience ; and let these also first be proved, then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless. Even so must their wives be grave, not .slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. Let the deacons... | |
 | George Thomas Chapman - Sermons, American - 1828 - 424 pages
...conscience.V And to show, that they were to be admitted by him to this ministry^ Paul adds, " let these also first be proved ; then* let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless." And now, Brethren, it is my turn to ask, if I have not here presented you with a body of scriptural... | |
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And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless. 
