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for you know what an example we have given for your imitation: that our conduct among you was regular:

that we did not eat any man's bread for nothing: but with toil and fatigue work'd night and day to avoid being chargeable to any of you:

As for you, my brethren, be not weary of your commendable industry:

for want of which, some have lost themselves in frivolous disputes,

I offer thanks to Jesus Christ our Lord, who qualified me for the ministry he has plac'd me in, for having appointed me to such a trust,

assisted by faith and a good conscience: for some having discarded the one, have entirely lost the other.

I exhort you therefore, above all things, to present supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgiving for all men:

for kings, and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in the practice of all piety and virtue;

for such offices are commendable, and agreeable to God our saviour,

for there is but one God, and but one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

who gave himself for the redemption of all mankind: this is what was to be promulg'd in due time:

for this I was establish'd a herald and an apostle, I speak the truth without disguise, a doctor to instruct the Gentiles in the true faith.

for I don't allow a woman to be a teacher, nor to dictate to her husband; but let her be silent.

for Adam was the first that was form'd, then Eve.

a bishop therefore ought to be of an unspotted character, to have but one wife, to be sober, prudent, grave, hospitable, and qualified for teaching:

for if a man is incapable of governing his own family, how can he take care of the church of God?

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.

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

interdicting marriage; and the use of animal food; which God created for the repast of the faithful, who embrace the truth with thankfulness.

for all that God has created is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it be receiv'd with thanksgiving: