pretending to be doctors of the law, tho' they neither understand what they advance, nor upon what it is founded.

Hymeneus and Alexander are of that number, whom I have deliver'd to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

let them be first examin'd, and if they are without reproach, let them enter upon their office.

for they who duly discharge that office, prepare their way to a higher degree, and may promote the christian faith with the greater freedom.

these things recommend to them, that they may be without reproach.

as for young widows, don't admit them: for being impatient of religious restraint, they will be marry'd:

for which they are much to be condemn'd, because they violate the engagements they had before enter'd into:

besides, having nothing to do, they get the habit of rambling from one house to another, and are not only idling, but prattle and intermeddle, and utter what is not decent.

The vices of some men are so notorious, they prevent any inquisition: others don't discover themselves till they have been ordain'd.

let them not treat their christian masters, on pretence of being their brethren, with less respect: but be the more obsequious, because they are believers, and deserve to be belov'd, for the kind provision they make for them. let this be the subject of your instructions, and exhortation.

we ought to think that sufficient. but they who will be rich, expose