61. And so the Apostle has given a pattern,
saying that a bishop must be blameless, 1 Tim. iii. 2. and in another place: “A
bishop must be without offence, as a steward of God, not proud, not
soon angry, not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy of filthy
lucre.” Tit. i. 7. For how
can the compassion of a dispenser of alms and the avarice of a covetous
man agree together?