| John Cumming - Apologetics - 1856 - 300 pages
...and the snare of the devil. Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre ; holding the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience." These are not descriptions of a system of priestcraft ; these verses do not... | |
| Rev. Henry Ives Bailey - 1857 - 870 pages
...men's sins. 1 Tim. v. 22. Likewise must the Deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, 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 office1 of a Deacon, being found blameless.... | |
| History - 1858 - 888 pages
...THEIR QUALIFICATIONS. " Likewise must the Deacons be grave, not double tongued, not giver» to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre, holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. And let these also be first proved ; and let them use the office of a Deacon, being found blameless.... | |
| Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - Congregational churches - 1859 - 476 pages
...of the Church, he says, " likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, 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."... | |
| Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - Congregational churches - 1859 - 460 pages
...of the Church, he says, " likewise must the deacons be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre ; holding the mystery of the faith in a pare conscience. And let these also first be proved ; then let them nsejhe office of a Deacon, being... | |
| 1859 - 854 pages
...the snare of the devil. » Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doublelongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre, » holding the mystery of the faith in a EeZli^eprlU'fth^ let them use the office of а deacon, being /оияа blameless. hven so must their... | |
| Edward Totterson Bartlett, John Punnett Peters - 1892 - 628 pages
...snare of the devil. Deacons in like manner must be nobly serious, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, 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 serve as deacons if they be blameless. Their wives... | |
| Methodist Episcopal Church - 1892 - 364 pages
...Epistle. 1 Timothy iii, 8-13. Likewise must the Deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, 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.... | |
| Christian literature, Early - 1896 - 530 pages
...his own house," also added: "Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre, holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. And let them also first be proved, and so let them serve, being found blameless."' 256. We note how... | |
| Episcopal Church - 1896 - 746 pages
...Epistle. 1 Tim. iii. 8. TIKEWISE must the deacons be grave, not doubleIJ tongued, not given to much wine, 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.... | |
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