...any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or unruly, for a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of...doctrine, both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision, whose...

...eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began. i TIT. i. 9 : Holding fast_the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may...doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. See on 1 TIM. i. 15. ' Ver. 1, 14. See on EPH. ii. 10. •See on 1 TIM. i. 4. 1 2 TIM. ii. 14 : Charging...

...filthy lucre ; 8 l!ui a lover of hospitality, a lover of good raen, sober, just, holy, temperate ; 9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught,...doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. 10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and ¡eceivers, especially they of the circumcision :...

...worldly sovereigns. For Anselm read that a bishop should be blameless, as the steward of GOD, a later of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate, holding fast the faithful word, as he hath been taught *. Whereas the archbishop could not but perceive, that the man preferred by kings, unless during some...

...bishop must be blameless, &c. holding fast the faithful word, as he hath been taught (or in teaching), that he may be "able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers : for there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision, whose...

...hold with so much presumption. For it becomes a Bishop and a Teacher of the Church, not only to hold fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by his sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers, (Titus i, 9, 7,) but likewise not...

...having faithful children, not accused of riot, or unruly. For a Bishop must he blameless, as the 7 steward of God ; not self-willed, not soon angry,...filthy lucre ; but a lover of hospitality, a lover of 8 good men, sober, just, holy, temperate, ' holding fast the faithful word 9 as he hath been taught,...

...lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate ; 9 Holding fast the faithful as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound...doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. 10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision :...

...apply it to ourselves, for our own instruction. St. Paul saith, a good shepherd must be blameless; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre, : as if he had said, the man that is given to the^ yices, doth nothing but infeet the place he is in,...

...any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot or unruly. For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of...he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and convince the gainsayers," Titus i, 5-9. The qualifications here mentioned are indispensable to the...