 | Job Swift - Congregational churches - 1805 - 314 pages
...names are applied to the same persons. Thus in our text, the Apostle says to the Ephesian Elders, " take heed to the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers or bishops." They were directed to feed the flock as pastors. A pastor signifies one that... | |
 | Samuel Davies - Presbyterian Church - 1810 - 390 pages
...this word, is an overseer, or inspector. So it is sometimes translated, particularly in the Acts. " Take heed to the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers.* The original word is uritxtmss, the same which is elsewhere translated bishops. So also,... | |
 | 1822 - 412 pages
...recorded in Acts xx. 28, speaks of their appointment to office as having been made by divine authority. " Take heed to the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers.1' If we understand the apostle here to mean merely that the Holy Ghost had designated those... | |
 | John Owen - Puritans - 1826 - 578 pages
...Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all.' Acts xx. 28. 'Take heed to the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers.' Matt. xii. 31. 'All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men ; but the blasphemy... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - Clergy - 1831 - 332 pages
...and not to other ministers, that the presbyters are called bishops: as in the passage last quoted; " Take heed to the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers" or bishops. So also in 1 Peter, chapter v., " Feed the flock of God which is among you,... | |
 | George Coles - Apologetics - 1836 - 406 pages
...Asia." — " They assayed to go into Bythinia, but the Spirit suffered them not." Acts xvi. 6, 7. " Take heed to the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers." Acts xx. 28. "Thus saith the Holy Ghost, so shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that... | |
 | John Angell James - Church group work - 1838 - 292 pages
...experience, when I assure you that preaching is the easiest part of a pastor's duty. You are now " to take heed to the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseer." You are to take the direction of its spiritual concerns, and by the right application of... | |
 | Benjamin Hanbury - Congregationalism - 1841 - 632 pages
...feed the flock [the church of God '], should be understood partitive:, and not these other words, ' take heed . . to the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers.' And if their overseeing and ruling be to be understood partitive, then how doth this place... | |
 | Religion - 1844 - 1022 pages
...Ephesus, and called the elders (:rp£ij£fuTfpoiv) of the church, and in addressing these elders he says, ' take heed to the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you bishops' (enusxonovj). The same interchangeable use of these terms is found in Titus 1 : 5, 7, and... | |
 | Theology - 1845 - 632 pages
...Ephesus, and called the elders (7rpE<r/3i)7-fpo«c) of the church, and in addressing these elders he says, ' Take heed to the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you bishops' (nritTKOTrovc.'). The same interchangeable use of these terms is found in Titus i. 5, 7, and... | |
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The form of government at first established by the apostles was, that the laity or people should be subject to a college of ecclesiastical persons appointed for that purpose in every city. These, in their writings, they term sometimes ' presbyters,' sometimes... 
