 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...once than one, or, after an unjust repudiation of one wife, marrying another. III. 6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. Not a novice in the faith, or in age ; lest, being puffed up with the conceit of his early advancement... | |
 | Joseph Milner - CHR 1809 - 1809 - 518 pages
...for their benefit. It was an excellent rule of the apostle's concerning ordination, " Not a novice, lest, being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil." There appeared however in Cyprian a spirit at once so simple, so zealous, and so intelligent, that... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 566 pages
...Apostle gives us a hint, that it was pride which gave them their fall : 1 Tim. iii. 6. Not a novice, lest, being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the Devil. Whether it was pride, in that they affected to be God, or in that they scorned to be guardians and... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 578 pages
...That pride was in a peculiar manner, the devil's sin, is manifest from 1 Tim. iii. 6. " Not a novice, lest, being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil." False and delusive experiences ever more tend to this, though often* times under the disguise of great... | |
 | William Huntington - Arminianism - 1809 - 568 pages
...pride, it was this that lifted him ".. up to his prefent dignity : " Not a novice," fays Paul, " left being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil." 1 Tim. iii. 6. When a fpark of this exalting light fhines into the head of one of thefe wife fubjccts,... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God ?) Ver. 6. Not a novice, lest, being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil. Tit. i. 5. For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are... | |
 | Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...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. Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach, and the... | |
 | John Gill - Baptists - 1810 - 620 pages
...scriptures, that their sin was, 1. Pride; and which seems probable from 1 Tim. iii. 6, Nat a novice, lest being lifted up -with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil; being guilty of the sunn- sin, he is in danger of the same condemnation, pride goes before destruction,... | |
 | William Jones - Anglican Communion - 1810 - 522 pages
...all these things is the life of my spirit ; so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live ! SERMON XV. LEST, BEING LIFTED UP WITH PRIDE, HE FALL INTO THE CONDEMNATION OF THE DEVIL. 1 TIMiii. 6. CONVERTS of little experience in the Christian Faith were disposed to be vain, when they... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 424 pages
...fall. Paul, in his advice to Timothy, about the choice of a minister, tells him not to choose a novice, lest, being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil. According to this text the procuring cause of the devil's ruin and destruction was the pride of his... | |
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Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without ; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. 
