{"passage":["1 Timothy 4:14"],"results":[{"document":"lbcf1689","id":"26.9","url":"/api/v1/documents/lbcf1689/paragraphs/26.9","segments":[{"text":"Eldership of the Church, if there be any before Constituted therein: And of a Deacon","proofs":["1 Timothy 4:14"]}]},{"document":"lbcf1689-modernized","id":"26.9","url":"/api/v1/documents/lbcf1689-modernized/paragraphs/26.9","segments":[{"text":"Eldership of the Church, if there be any before Constituted therein: And of a Deacon","proofs":["1 Timothy 4:14"]}]},{"document":"lbcf1677","id":"26.9","url":"/api/v1/documents/lbcf1677/paragraphs/26.9","segments":[{"text":"Eldership of the Church, if there be any before Constituted therein; And of a Deacon","proofs":["1 Timothy 4:14"]}]},{"document":"phila1742","id":"27.9","url":"/api/v1/documents/phila1742/paragraphs/27.9","segments":[{"text":"Eldership of the Church, if there be any before constituted therein: And of a Deacon","proofs":["1 Timothy 4:14"]}]},{"document":"flcf1644","id":"37.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/flcf1644/paragraphs/37.1","segments":[{"text":"That the Ministers aforesaid, lawfully called by the Church, where they are to administer, ought to continue in their calling, according to Gods Ordinance, and carefully to feed the flock of Christ committed to them, not for filthy lucre, but of a ready minde.","proofs":["1 Timothy 4:14"]}]},{"document":"orthodox1679","id":"31.1","url":"/api/v1/documents/orthodox1679/paragraphs/31.1","segments":[{"text":"and Charge committed to them, without which they cannot discharge their Duty (as they ought to do) in studying to divide the Word of God aright, as St. Paul adviseth Timothy, and also to give themselves wholly to it;","proofs":["4:13–15"]}]},{"document":"wlc","id":"158","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc/questions/158","segments":[{"text":"and also duly approved and called to that office.","proofs":["4:14"]}]},{"document":"wlc-modernized","id":"158","url":"/api/v1/documents/wlc-modernized/questions/158","segments":[{"text":"and also duly approved and called to that office.","proofs":["4:14"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"65","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/65","segments":[{"text":"2. Negligence in their prayers and studies for them, and in their Preaching the Word to them, Give attendance to Reading, and Exhortation, and Doctrine; Neglect not the Gift that is in thee, which was given thee by Prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the Presbitery.","proofs":["1 Timothy 4:13–14"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"21","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/21","segments":[{"text":"They are not to neglect the gift which is in them;","proofs":["1 Timothy 4:14"]},{"text":"To ordain others for the Ministry, by imposition of hands;","proofs":["1 Timothy 4:14"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"(4) Because, before ever there was a Christian Magistrate in the World, the Church exercised all Acts of Church Jurisdiction, and Government. The Church ordained Ministers and Pastors;","proofs":["1 Timothy 4:14"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"30","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/30","segments":[{"text":"Secondly, those parts likewise, which concern the key of Discipline; namely the ordination of Presbyters, with the imposition of the hands of the Presbytrie;","proofs":["1 Timothy 4:14"]}]},{"document":"dickson1684","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/dickson1684/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"For if our blessed Lord appointed, that for a single brothers offence, (he trespassing against GOD, or his brother, for gaining of him, and removing the Scandal) he be brought before the church, it follows by consequence, that the same course ought to be taken, when any one particular Congregation, offends against another, and remains obstinate in their scandalous Opinion, and Practise. 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. Nay, the Ordination of Ministers, in the New Testament, was alwayes performed by a Colledge of Pastors associate together;","proofs":["1 Timothy 4:14"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"And some lastly are by men sent: so in the primitiue Church by the Apostles, were Pastors, and Elders ordained,","proofs":["1 Timothy 4:14"]}]},{"document":"rogers1607","id":"23","url":"/api/v1/documents/rogers1607/entries/23","segments":[{"text":"and by laying on of hands to consecrate them.","proofs":["1 Timothy 4:14"]}]},{"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 4:13–16"]}]}]}