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to have communion here with the Saints, that they may be made to be partakers of their inheritance in the Kingdome of God.","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:15"]}]},{"document":"flcf1644","id":"36.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/flcf1644/paragraphs/36.1","segments":[{"text":"Pastors, Teachers, Elders, Deacons, being qualified according to the Word, as those which Christ has appointed in his Testament, for the feeding, governing, serving, and building up of his Church, and that none other have power to impose them, either these or any other.","proofs":["1 Timothy 3"]}]},{"document":"flcf1644","id":"47.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/flcf1644/paragraphs/47.1","segments":[{"text":"And although the particular Congregations be distinct and severall Bodies, every one as a compact and knit Citie in it selfe; yet are they all to walk by one and the same Rule, and by all meanes convenient to have the counsell and help one of another in all needfull affaires of the Church, as members of one body in the common faith under Christ their onely head.","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:15"]}]},{"document":"flcf1646","id":"36.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/flcf1646/paragraphs/36.1","segments":[{"text":"as those which Christ hath appointed in his Testament, for the feeding, governing, serving, and building up of his Church, and that none have any power to","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:2, 6–8"]}]},{"document":"flcf1646","id":"47.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/flcf1646/paragraphs/47.1","segments":[{"text":"one rule of truth; 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To rule well their own Family,","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:5"]}]},{"document":"explicatory1675","id":"75","url":"/api/v1/documents/explicatory1675/entries/75","segments":[{"text":"and which might have been better improved to the relieving of the poor, for the furtherance of their own account in the other world.","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:2"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"No, he did not, but carried it up to glory, and now is in our Nature in Heaven.","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:16"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:11"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"65","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/65","segments":[{"text":"The sins of the younger and weaker in Gifts, and Graces, against them which are aged and stronger, are: 1. A proud conceitedness of Wisdom and worth in themselves, beyond their elders and betters, together with a dispising of them in their hearts, and judging of them for making use of their known Liberty, Not a Novice, lest being lifted up with Pride, he fall into the condemnation of the Devil,","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"9","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/9","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For they that are lifed up with Pride, fall into the Condemnation of the Devil,","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:6"]}]},{"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":"beddome1752","id":"24","url":"/api/v1/documents/beddome1752/entries/24","segments":[{"text":"Great is the mystery of godliness, God manifest in the flesh,","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:16"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"8","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/8","segments":[{"text":"Yes.","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:16"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"who continued steadfastly in the Apostles doctrine. (5) Because, the word of God, is the perfect Rule of life and manners. And all Spirits, are to be tried by it;","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:15"]},{"text":"(3) Because, the Lord hath taken a special care to bestow peculiar gifts and qualifications upon these persons, so designed for the Ministery; and that for the good of the Souls of his People, above what is required in other Saints. 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The first is true, because he doth not perform the office of a Bishop, which is set down;","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:2"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"But God-Christ, our blessed Mediator, and Lord of his church, is the Efficient of the church particularly, and of its Government. The matter (materia ex qua) of the civil Government, is the secular sword: but the matter of the church Government, are the keyes of the kingdom of Heaven. The matter of the civil Government (materia in qua) may be a Senate, many people, the Person of one king, of a child. 〈◊〉 woman. 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Paul, who saith, A Bishop must be the husband of one wife; one that hath childrē vnder obediēce.","proofs":["1 Timothy 3"]}]},{"document":"ursinus1587","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/ursinus1587/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"Euen our Lord Iesus Christ, who is made to vs of God wisedome, righteousnesse, sanctification, and","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:16"]}]},{"document":"ursinus1587","id":"155","url":"/api/v1/documents/ursinus1587/entries/155","segments":[{"text":"First that the ministery of the gospel, and the schooles of learning should be maintained: and that I, both at other times, and especially on holy daies, should","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:14–15"]}]}]}