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Essays on the Primitive Church Offices. Reprinted by Permission from the ... None No preview available - 2006 |
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Acts addressed admitted alleged already apos apostles Apostolic office appears applied argument assumed authority belonging bishops body brother called Christ Christian church claim command conclusion connection continued denote derived described direct discipline distinct doctrine doubt duties elders Ephesus epistles equal essential evidence exercised exhorts existence express fact faith follow functions given gospel granting hands highest imply important included inference inferior judge king kingdom least Lord matter means mentioned merely ministers ministry natural necessary necessity ordained organization original passage Paul Paul's permanent perpetual persons position possessed powers presbyters presbytery presumption probable proof prove question rank reason referred regarded relation respect rest rule rulers Scripture seems seen sense sometimes speaks spiritual strict successors superior supposing supposition teachers temporary Testament things Timothy Timothy and Titus tion Titus true truth unto valid whole
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Page 112 - If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained. 7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
Page 32 - Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God which He hath purchased with His own blood.
Page 30 - And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons...
Page 121 - Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins : keep thyself pure.
Page 43 - Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
Page 125 - And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
Page 124 - Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
Page 104 - ... brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia.
Page 43 - Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind ; neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
Page 8 - And the king went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great : and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the Lord.