{"passage":["1 Timothy 3:15"],"results":[{"document":"flcf1644","id":"34.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/flcf1644/paragraphs/34.1","segments":[{"text":"thither ought all men to come, of all estates, that acknowledge him to be their Prophet, Priest, and King, to be inrolled amongst his houshold servants, to be under his heavenly conduct and government, to lead their lives in his walled sheepfold, and watered garden; 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":"47.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/flcf1646/paragraphs/47.1","segments":[{"text":"one rule of truth; So also they (by all meanes convenient) are to have the counsell and helpe","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:15"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646","id":"1.5","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646/paragraphs/1.5","segments":[{"text":"We may be moved and induced by the Testimony of the Church to an high and reverent esteeme of the holy Scripture:","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:15"]}]},{"document":"wcf1646-modernized","id":"1.5","url":"/api/v1/documents/wcf1646-modernized/paragraphs/1.5","segments":[{"text":"We may be moved and induced by the Testimony of the Church to an high and reverent esteem of the holy Scripture:","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:15"]}]},{"document":"heidelberg","id":"103","url":"/api/v1/documents/heidelberg/questions/103","segments":[{"text":"First: that the ministry of the Gospel, and the schools be maintained;","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:14–15","1 Timothy 3:15"]}]},{"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"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"25","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/25","segments":[{"text":"(1) Because, in very many places of the New Testament, the word Church (to wit Visible) is so largely taken, that it cannot be restricted, to any particular Congregational Church;","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:15"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"25","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/25","segments":[{"text":"And he hath appointed a Ministry to continue even after the Apostles dayes, as is evident from","proofs":["1 Timothy 3"]}]},{"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. But the matter of the church government, is not of this kind;","proofs":["1 Timothy 3:15"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"32","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/32","segments":[{"text":"From the newe Testament, by the words of S. 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":"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"]}]}]}