Qualifications and Duties of Ruling Elders in the Presbyterian ChurchPresbyterian Tract and Sunday School Society, Wm. S. Martien, printer, 1836 - Elders (Church officers) - 24 pages |
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Page 4 - For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: 5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
Page 4 - And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
Page 4 - Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith ; or ministry, let us wait on our ministering; or he that teacheth, on teaching ; or he that exhorteth, on exhortation : he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity ; he that ruleth, with diligence ; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness.
Page 13 - ... one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (for if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
Page 8 - power of his resurrection : " new principles, feelings, and actuating motives are communicated : " they account themselves dead indeed unto sin, " but alive unto God : " They live no longer to " themselves, but to him that died for them and " rose again : " " they are risen with Christ, and " seek those things which are above : " " their " conversation is in heaven ; " and, in proportion to the degree of their faith and grace, they ascend and reign with Christ, in the nature of their joys and the...
Page 5 - Some keen advocates for presbytery, as the word is now understood, on the model of John Calvin, have imagined they discovered this distinction in these words of Paul to Timothy, 1 Tim. v. 17, " Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour ; especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
Page 6 - ... that early period, it did not, it is true, occupy the prominence to which it was entitled ; but the fact is alluded to by Ambrose, as a matter of regret, and as an evidence of corruption in the Church. " The Jewish Synagogue and primitive Christian Church," says he, "had Elders, without whose counsel nothing was done. By what negligence they fell into disuse, I know not ; unless it were through the sloth or rather pride of the clergy, desiring to appear the sole important order in the Church.
Page 15 - ... •would not be misplaced by such an application, yet the circumstances of the case forbid that they should be regarded as indispensable. But we mean such a degree of information on subjects relating to the official duties of their station, as would distinguish the incumbent above ordinary Christians, and induce them to regard his counsels with respect. No one should accept .a station, of the duties of which he is ignorant, and for tlie proper occupancy of which, he is conscious of his unfitness.
Page 15 - The intelligence which we consider necessary in tlie present instance, .should extend to the following particulars : 1. An Elder should possess an adequate and even systematic knowledge of the doctrines of Revelation. Not with the view of preparing himself for skillful controversy, but that his faith may be an intelligent one, and that he himself may not be driven about by every wind of doctrine. He should distinctly know what he does believe, and be prepared as distinctly to state the reasons upon...
Page 14 - Christ tians, as well as others, plead in justification of their worldly compliances, the example of Ministers and Elders! Their children, it was true, were found at the ball room, the theatres, and the midnight rout, but then they were in company with the children of Ministers and Elders ! And if this plea be well-- founded, how, we ask, will officers in the Church justify their conduct before God, in countenancing customs of the...