| Complete collection, Thomas Deacon - 1734 - 292 pagina’s
...to teach, not given to wine, no ftriker, not greedy of filthy lucre, but patient, not a brawler, not covetous ; one that ruleth well his own houfe, having...(for if a man know not how to rule his own houfe, how mall he take care of the church of God ? ) not a Novice, left being lifted up with pride, he fall into... | |
| Assembly of divines confess. and catech - 1765 - 626 pagina’s
...covetous; v. 4. One that ruleth well his own houfe, having his children in lubjeftion with all gravity; vj (For if a man know not how to rule his own houfe, how (hall he take care of the church of God ?) v. 6. Not a novice, lell being lifted up •with pride,... | |
| Johann Caspar Lavater - 1795 - 452 pagina’s
...of fait k unfeigned. — The law is not made for righteous mat — The go/pel of the blejfed God — If a man know not how to rule his own houfe, how Jhall ie take care of God? — To keep the myjiery of faith in a good confcience — Every creature... | |
| Ralph Erskine - 1796 - 530 pagina’s
...feveral Ufes. I. I ara firft to fpeak a little of the baitfe of God. The church is the houfe of God ; " If a man know not how to rule his own houfe, how fhall he take care of the church of God ?" i Tim. iii. 5. And it is fo called on feveral accounts : i. Goci is the builder of it ; " He that... | |
| 1797 - 572 pagina’s
...character of a Chriftian Bifhop. " One that ruleth well his own houfe, having his children in fubjcction with all gravity ;" for if a man know not how to rule...take care of the church of God ? " Not a novice," not a young convert, left being lifted up of pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil," into... | |
| Thomas Lewis O'Beirne (bp. of Meath.) - 1797 - 74 pagina’s
...ruleth well bis own houfe, having bis children in JubjeSiion with all gravity; and he adds the reafon, 'for if a man know not how to rule 'his, own houfe, how fan he take care of the church of God? Here we have the groundwork of our ordination vow. It fuppofes... | |
| Richard Graves - 1798 - 382 pagina’s
...hofpitality, apt to " teach — one that ruleth well his own houfe, having his chil" dren in fubjeclion with all gravity ; for if a man know not " how to...houfe, how fhall he take care of the " church of God." Addrefiing Addreffing himfelf to the Theflalonians he has this remarkable appeal. — " Y For yourfelves... | |
| Robert Leighton (abp. of Glasgow.) - 1798 - 500 pagina’s
...paftor, i Tim. iii. 4. To be one that. rulctb well his own hovfe, having his children infubjeSlion ; for if a man know not how to rule his own houfe, how Jhall he take care of the Church of God ? Now this, therefore, more eminently appears in the fupretne... | |
| Robert Barclay - 1803 - 176 pagina’s
...not a brawler, not covetous ; one that ruleth well his own houfe, having his children in fubjeftion with all gravity; for if a man know not how to rule...houfe, how fhall he take care of the church of God ? Nor a novice, left being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil. Moreover,... | |
| John Brown - 1805 - 402 pagina’s
...bifhop," or overfeer, " muft be one who " rules well his own houfe, having his children in fub" jectfcn with all gravity ; (for if a man know not how " to...houfe, how fhall he take care of the " church of God ?") Now it is evidently here affirmed, that a power, correfponding in fome meafure to that which is... | |
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