| George Punchard - Congregationalism - 1840 - 254 pages
...In respect to deacons. " 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.... | |
| Baptists - 1840 - 388 pages
...deacon. "Not a novice, lest heing lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. Not greedy of filthy lucre ; holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience." ( 1 Tim. iii. 6, 8, 9.) A novice, who can give no account nor reason of the hope that is in him, except... | |
| Lewis Pintard Bayard - Funeral sermons - 1841 - 286 pages
...grave, not double * Rev. Louis Thibou. f Willie Peck and Marmaduke Hirst. 19 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 fhund blameless."... | |
| 1876 - 516 pages
...subject. May I quote it? "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.... | |
| William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...condemnation of the devil. Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubled-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, &c. let the deacons be the husbands... | |
| Samuel Allen McCoskry - Apostolic succession - 1842 - 384 pages
...and the snare of the devil. Likewise must the deacons be grave, not double tongued, not given to muck wine, not greedy of filthy lucre : holding the mystery of the faith in a pure, conscience. Jlnd let these, also, first be proved ; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.... | |
| Samuel Allen McCoskry - Apostolic succession - 1842 - 384 pages
...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 in a pure conscience. And l>t these, also, first be proved ; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.... | |
| John Shenton Bright - Congregational churches - 1842 - 106 pages
...and the snare of the devil. 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.... | |
| First Church (Cambridge, Mass.) - Cambridge (Mass.) - 1842 - 110 pages
...its Deacons. Mr. Hilliard died April 27, 1836. He was an honest and good man ; " not double-tongued, not greedy of filthy lucre, holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience." He " used the office of a Deacon well, and purchased to himself a good degree, and great boldness in... | |
| Saint John Chrysostom - Bible - 1843 - 444 pages
...so debases a man as deceit, nothing is so pernicious in the Church as insincerity. Not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. i TIM. Thus he explains what he means by Uameless. And here ' he requires, though in other words, that... | |
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