nor must he be a new convert; for fear he should be elated with pride, and so involve himself in the same ruin as the devil.

If you represent these things to the brethren, you will appear to be a true minister of Jesus Christ, brought up in the institutions of faith, and the true doctrine to which you were attach'd.

he is full of pride and ignorance, touch'd with a spirit of chicanery and wrangling, productive of envy, contention, calumny,

as we brought nothing into the world, certain it is, we can carry nothing away. having therefore food and raiment,

which some having obtain'd, have revolted from the faith, and brought upon themselves variety of piercing pains.