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Their superstitious Fasting, and ab staining from Flesh in Lent; Their superstitious Holy-daies; Their adding Cream, Oyl, and Spittle to the water in Baptism, and their Baptizing of Bells; Their praying upon Beads, and mary more superstitious customs! For which there is not the least command in the Scriptures.","proofs":["1 Timothy 4:4–5"]}]},{"document":"explicatory1675","id":"54","url":"/api/v1/documents/explicatory1675/entries/54","segments":[{"text":"The King of Kings, and Lord of Lords,","proofs":["1 Timothy 6:15"]},{"text":"Eternity,","proofs":["1 Timothy 1:17"]},{"text":"Power,","proofs":["1 Timothy 6:15"]}]},{"document":"explicatory1675","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/explicatory1675/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Love","proofs":["1 Timothy 5:4"]}]},{"document":"explicatory1675","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/explicatory1675/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"2. 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It is Paganism, and gross Idolatry to give so principal a part of divine worship, and to do service to them that by nature are no Gods. Gal. 4 8. 5. 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Shutting their Ear against Reproaches and Slanders, believing nothing without proof, and standing up in their defence against an ungodly World, and many false Brethren, and rotten-hearted Hypocrites, who are made use of by the Devil to cast dirt upon them, that thereby people receiving prejudices against them, might be kept either from Hearing them, or receiving benefit by their Doctrine, and so be either drawn to ways of Error, or hardned in ways of Profaneness, Against an Elder receive not an Accusation, but before two or three witnesses.","proofs":["1 Timothy 5:19"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Be thou an example of the Believers in word, in conversation, in charity, in Spirit, in faith, in purity.","proofs":["1 Timothy 4:12"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"5. 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Man-stealing or woman-stealing or stealing, of Children, that they may be sent or sold for slaves. The Law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient: For murderers, for man-slayers, for whoremongers, for men-stealers, for lyars, for perjured persons.","proofs":["1 Timothy 1:9–10"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"78","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/78","segments":[{"text":"And withall they learn to be idle, wandring about from House to House: and not onely idle, but tatlers also, speaking things which they ought not.","proofs":["1 Timothy 5:13"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"80","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/80","segments":[{"text":"We may attain contentment in a low necessitous and afflicted condition: 1. By attaining true Godliness, unto which alone true contentment is annexed. 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He gave himself a Ransom for all,","proofs":["1 Timothy 2:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Without Controversie great is the Mystery of Godliness, God manifest in the Flesh,","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"22","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/22","segments":[{"text":"Yes. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all Acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the World to save Sinners,","proofs":["1 Timothy 1:15"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For before Pontius Pilate he witnessed a good Confession,","proofs":["1 Timothy 6:13"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"50","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/50","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For bodily Exercise profiteth little,","proofs":["1 Timothy 4:8"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"54","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/54","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Lifting up Holy Hands,","proofs":["1 Timothy 2:8"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"63","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/63","segments":[{"text":"Yes. That the Name of God and his Doctrine be not Blasphem’d,","proofs":["1 Timothy 6:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"63","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/63","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For we may live in all Godliness and Honesty,","proofs":["1 Timothy 2:2"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Let them shew Piety at Home, and requite their Parents,","proofs":["1 Timothy 5:4"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Yes. If any provide not for his own, especially for those of his own House, he hath denied the Faith, and is worse than an Infidel,","proofs":["1 Timothy 5:8"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Let as many Servants as are under the Yoke count their own Masters worthy of all honour,","proofs":["1 Timothy 6:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Kings, and for all that are in Authority,","proofs":["1 Timothy 2:2"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Yes. That we under them may lead a quiet and peaceable Life,","proofs":["1 Timothy 2:2"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"66","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/66","segments":[{"text":"Yes. 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For our blessed Lord, hath sufficiently prescribed a Remedy in this place, for removing of all Scandals, and Offences, whether of one brother against another, or of one Congregation against another. Nay, surely, since Christ hath consulted so much the conversion of one brother, that hath sinned, and gone astray; much more will he look to the good, and conversion of a whole Congregation. (6) Because, any one single congregation, with one Pastor only, hath not the power of Ordination, an instance whereof cannot be given, either from Precept, or Practise, in all the New Testament. 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