 | Aaron Bancroft - 1822 - 468 pages
...publick charity, " the twelve apostles called the multitude unto them and said, (Acts vi. 2 — 5) It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. Wherefore, brethren, look, ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost, and... | |
 | 1822 - 554 pages
...distribute, from the funds of the church, necessary supplies to the poor members. Said the twelve apostles, " It is not reason that we should leave the word of God and serve tables." (Acts vi. 2.) To " serve tables," was manifestly to afford relief to the poor from the common funds... | |
 | 1915 - 812 pages
...those whom they believe to be qualified, the duty of considering the Holy Ministry as their vocation. "Look ye out among you seven men of honest report,...and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business." That was the apostolic suggestion and when they looked they found them. We must look out among our... | |
 | David Jennings - 1823 - 654 pages
...heart," chap, ii, 46. And when it is said, that " the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables," chap. vi, 2, he supposes the tables mean these love feasts : which expression, I think, primarily refers... | |
 | Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert, Benjamin Ferris - 1823 - 524 pages
...were neglected in the daily ministration. Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them and said, •' It is not reason that we should leave the word of God to serve tables." Upon which seven men whose names arc mentioned, were appointed to the particular... | |
 | David Bowker Wells - 1824 - 226 pages
...neglected in the daily ministration. 2. Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave...and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. artifice to catch converts ; or one of the temptations, however, by which the idle and mendicant were... | |
 | 1824 - 462 pages
...were neglected in the daily ministration. 2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave...out among you seven men of honest report, full of th-3 Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. 4 But we will give ourselves continually... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1824 - 982 pages
...19 — inasmuch as the word YK was substituted for We. The passage is thus ; from Acts vi. 3. — " Look ye out among you seven men of honest report,...and wisdom, whom WE may appoint over this business." Field, the printer of the Bible in question, had inadvertently put " YE may appoint " &c. : upon which... | |
 | 1824 - 744 pages
...that ' the twelve called the MULTITUDE of the disciples unto them, nnd said,' — ' Look YE out ammig you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost...and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business ;' — ' nnd the saying pleased THE WHOLE MULTITUDE, and THEY CIIOSK Stephen' and others, ' «-ham... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 pages
...then must be blameless, the husband of one wife ; vigilant, sober, word of God, and serve tables ; wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and of wisdom, &c. but we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and the ministry of the word. —... | |
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Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. 3 Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom,... 
