 | Thom Scott - Theology - 1826 - 520 pages
...all from their own feelings. As if to guard against this very evil, St. Paul says, Not » novice ; lest, being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil. For this vehemency springs in a great measure from spiritual pride, and leads to greater pride : till... | |
 | William Jones, William Stevens - Theology - 1826 - 526 pages
...all these things is the life of my spirit; so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live t SERMON XV. LEST, BEING LIFTED UP WITH PRIDE, HE FALL INTO THE CONDEMNATION OF THE DEVIL. 1 TIM. iii. 6. CONVERTS of little experience in the Christian Faith were disposed to be vain, when... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1826 - 424 pages
...and all from their own feelings. As if to guard against this very evil, St. Paul says, Not a novice ; lest being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil. For this vehemency springs in a great measure from spiritual pride, and leads to greater pride : till... | |
 | Walter Balfour - Devil - 1826 - 380 pages
...on the supposition that the devil referred to was a fallen angel. 1 Tim. iii. 6, 7. "Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil. Moreover, he m^ist have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach, and the... | |
 | William Wake - Catechisms, English - 1827 - 454 pages
...righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? 1 Tim. iii. 6. Not a nonce, lest being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil. James, iii. 14, 15. But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not... | |
 | 1827 - 524 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 5 Moreover, he must have a good report of them which are without, lest he fall into reproach and the... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1827 - 566 pages
...subject of putting a man into the ministry, that he should be " not a novice, (or one newly converted,) lest being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil." And we think the reason of this direction is equally applicable to the common practice ot putting forward... | |
 | Clergy - 1833 - 448 pages
...naturally possessed, or are easily acquired, that man is a novice, who should not be put into the ministry, lest, being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil. To be suitably qualified to preach the gospel, men must not only know the gospel ; but they must abo... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...working of Satan ; with all power, and signs, and lying wonders. — 2 Thess. ii. 8, 9. Not a novice, lest, being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil. — 1 Tim. iii. 6. In meekness instructing those, &c. that they may recover themselves out of the snare... | |
 | Edward Irving - End of the world - 1828 - 820 pages
...of the like kind is in 1 Tim. iii. 6, 7, where it is required of a bishop, that he be not a novice, lest, being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil, or accuser; and, in the next verse, he must have a good report of them which are without, lest he fall... | |
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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. 
