 | London Congregational board - 1829 - 32 pages
...respected brethren, who sustain that important office, so discharging its duties as to " procure for themselves a good degree and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus ?" Do they zealously call forth, and kindly convey the liberality of the Church towards its indigent... | |
 | Lutheran Church - 1829 - 424 pages
...also how he concluded that those who behaved themselves well and faithfully in office, •" purchased to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Jesus Christ." When there is good order in the church, and the children of God do their duty faithfully,... | |
 | James Nourse - 1829 - 292 pages
...so must their wives 11 be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things. Let the deacons 12 be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. For they that have used the office of a deacon well, purchase to 13 themselves a good degree, and great... | |
 | Martin Luther - Sermons - 1829 - 418 pages
...also how he concluded that those who behaved themselves well and faithfully in office, " purchased to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which k in Jesus Christ;" When there is good order in the church, and the children of God do their duty faithfully,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1837 - 504 pages
...toward the presbyterate or episcopate. This seems to be taught by St. Paul. " They that have exercised the office of a deacon well, purchase to themselves...great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus." (1 Tim. iii, 13.) The good degree, nakov {laOftov, seems to refer to a higher grade of office, and... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1830 - 482 pages
...wife, ruling their Children >nd tlieir own Houses wpll. For they that have used the Office of a Deacop well, purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. U Or tlst1 Ibis, out of (lie sixth Chapter of (lie Acts of the Apijeues. Acts. vi. 2. the Twelve called... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 512 pages
...gravity : for if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God : let the deacons be the husbands of one wife : ruling their children and their own houses well." Here mark, that it is such a ruling of their houses, as is of the same nature as the ruling of the... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 510 pages
...gravity : for if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God : let the deacons be the husbands of one wife : ruling their children and their own houses well." Here mark, that it is such a ruling of their houses, as is of the same nature as the ruling of the... | |
 | John Bainbridge Smith - Theology, Doctrinal - 1830 - 540 pages
...children in subjection." " Ordain Elders (or Priests,) if any be blameless, the husband of one wife."— " Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own households well *."— St. Paul says, that " marriage is honourable in all f;" and it is remarkable... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1830 - 210 pages
...also how he concluded that those who behaved themselves well and faithfully in office, " purchased to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Jesus Christ." When there is good order in the church, and the children of God do their duty faithfully,... | |
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For they that have used the office of a deacon well, purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. 
