...as well as the state ; and therefore Paul forbids a novice to be made a ruler in the church, lest, being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil. A fool, when he is filled with meat, or furnished with riches sufficient to gratify his vanity and...

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...know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the Church of God 1) 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 snare of the...

...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 arc without ; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the...

...know not now 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 reKrt of them which are without; t he fall into reproach, and the snare of the devil....

...rule his own hou?o, how srmll he take care of the Cliurcl of God ? not a novice, leat being lilted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. Moreover he must have a good report to them which are without; lest he fall into reproach, aud the snare of the...

...that are without' the christian church, ' lest he fall into reproach.' Do not ordain ' a novice, lest, being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil.' Be not hasty in forming thy judgment of men's characters, however fair they • 1 Corinthians xiv....

...extraordinary cases, such as a manifest wl from God, or some pressing emergency. " Not a novice, nt being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil," i Tim. Hi. 6. Fifthly, Courage and faithfulness, to declare to high and low, "chand poor, even to all...

...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...

...of a bishop, objects to a novice, or one newly converted to the faith ; and for this reason, lest, being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil. It is here plainly implied, that the early stages of even true religion, in persons possessed of promising...