...be employed in some manner and degree for the same ends. In a bishop this qualification is required, that 'he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort, and to -convince gainsayers.' There is undoubtedly no warrant given to deacons in the Scriptures to preach. But there...

...God : not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre ; 8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate ; 9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both...

...hos« 8 pitality, a lover of good men, prudent, just, holy, temperate; Holding fast the faithful 9 word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound teaching, both to exhort and to confute gainsayers- For there are many 10 unruly people and vain talkers...

...xviii. 18. Compare ch. xvi. 19. * Ephes. iv. 11, 12. 1 1 Tim..i. 3. a Titus iii. 10. bishop ought to be; "Holding fast the faithful word, as he hath been taught,...doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers ;" and by the direction to Timothy; "the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the...

...v, 22.) and of the other, which directs that a Bishop and a Teacher of the Church be " apt to teach, holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught,...doctrine, both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers." (Titus i, 9.) — I do not therefore svippose one person, in this numerous assembly, can be so ignorant...

...on exhortation : he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity ; he that ruleth, with diligence d. Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught,...doctrine, both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers *. Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for...

...: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works, 2 Tim. iii. 16, 17. Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctiine both to eihort and to convince the gainsayers, Tit. i. 9. Young men likewise eihort to be...

...soon angry, nor given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre ; but a lover of hospital! ty, a lover of good men; sober, just, holy, temperate, holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to convince the gainsay...

...as the steward of God ; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to winei no striker, not given to filthy lucre ; But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate. Tit. i. 7, 8. «So art the ways of every one that is greedy of gain ; which taketh away the life of...

...as the steward of God ; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre ; but a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate." a A similar account is given by the Apostle in his Epistle to Timothy, to which he adds, . alter having...