...with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. must be blameless, as steward of IpjTU A : ..^ip not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre ; but one that loveth goodness. Tituy\, 7. — A bishop must be blameless as the church steward of Got; not...

...: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works, 2 Tim. iii. 16, 17. Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctiine both to eihort and to convince the gainsayers, Tit. i. 9. Young men likewise eihort to be...

...accused of riot, or unruly. For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not self willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; but a lover * " Att «t> TOV anaKtncov avtirtXtfffTov ttvat, fttat yvvatKot uvSpa, vrjfya\tov, aatj>pova. Koafttov,...

...soon angry, nor given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre ; but a lover of hospital! ty, a lover of good men; sober, just, holy, temperate, holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to convince the gainsay...

...declares, and lays down many particular instances whereby it is to be tried. Titus i. 7 — 9. ' For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God...he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and convince the gaiusayers. 1 Tim. iii, 2 — 7. ' A bishop must be blameless, the husband of one wife,...

...tone and manner of its delivery, how far short it falls of the portrait drawn by the apostle — " For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God,...just, holy, temperate, holding fast the faithful word in teachmg, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers....

...ideas from the writings of St. Paul, who thus addresses Titus upon the same subject : fc A minister must be blameless as the steward of God ; not self-willed,...holy, temperate ; holding fast the faithful word, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convince the gainsayers.' — (Tit. i. 7...

...God ?) Not a novice, lest, being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil ; holding fast the faithful word, as he hath been taught,...sound doctrine, both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers."0 Thus he exhorts Timothy : " Be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation,...

...of vast charges. I will show them therefore a shorter and a better way of confutation. Tit. i. 9, ' Holding fast the faithful word, as he hath been taught,...by sound doctrine, both to exhort and to convince gainsayers,' who are confuted as soon as heard, bringing that which is either not in scripture, or...

...the Bishop's address and what Paul describes as the characteristic features of a true " Bishop," " Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught,...may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convince the gainsayers" (Titus i. 9.) Should we not have supposed that his one object would have been...