Geneva [1587], THE BIBLE: THAT IS, THE HOLY SCRIPTVRES CONTEINED IN THE OLDE AND NEWE TESTAMENT. TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance (Imprinted... by Christopher Barker [etc.], LONDON) [word count] [B07000].
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CHAP. III.
2 He setteth out Bishops, 8 and Christian Deacons, with
their wiues, 12 children and familie: 15 he calleth the
Church the house of God.
1 This note is a true saying, note If any man note desire
the office of a Bishop, he desireth a worthie
worke.
2 noteA Bishop therefore must be vnreproueable,
the husband of note one wife, watching, temperate,
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The great mysterie.
modest, harberous, apt to teache,
3 Not note giuen to wine, no striker, not giuen to
filthy lucre, but gentle, no fighter, not couetous,
4 One þt; can rule his owne house honestly,
hauing children vnder obedience &wt; all honestie.
5 For if any cannot rule his owne house, how
shall he care for the Church of God?
6 He may not be a yong scholer, lest he being
puffed vp fall into the note condemnation of the
deuill.
7 He must also be well reported of, euen of
them which are without, lest he fall into rebuke,
and the snare of the deuill.
8 noteLikewise must note Deacons be graue, not
double tongued, not giuen vnto much wine, neither
to filthy lucre,
9 noteHauing the note mysterie of the faith in pure
conscience.
10 And let them first be proued: then let them
minister, if they be found blameles.
11 noteLikewise their wiues must be honest, not
euill speakers, but sober, and faithfull in all things.
12 noteLet the Deacons be the husbands of one
wife, and such as can rule their children well, and
their owne housholdes.
13 For they that haue ministred well, get them
selues a good note degree, and note great libertie in the
faith, which is in Christ Iesus.
14 noteThese things write I vnto thee, trusting
to come very shortly vnto thee.
15 But if I tary long, þt; thou maist yet know,
how thou oughtest to behaue thy self in þe; note house
of God, which is the Church of the liuing God,
the note pillar and ground of trueth.
16 noteAnd without controuersie, great is the mysterie
of godlinesse, which is, God is manifested in
the flesh, note iustified in the Spirit, seene of Angels,
preached vnto the Gentiles, beleeued on in the
world, and receiued vp in glorie.
Geneva [1587], THE BIBLE: THAT IS, THE HOLY SCRIPTVRES CONTEINED IN THE OLDE AND NEWE TESTAMENT. TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance (Imprinted... by Christopher Barker [etc.], LONDON) [word count] [B07000].
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