1 Timothy 1

How should they that are called be affected with God's discriminating love; how should the vessels of mercy run over with thankfulness; how should they stand upon Mount Gerizim, blessing and praising God: O begin the work of Heaven here! Such as are patterns of mercy, should be…

As suppose a cloud cover the sun, this makes no change in the body of the sun; so though the divine nature be covered with the human, this makes no change in the divine nature. Second, there is no period put to his being (1 Timothy 1:16). Who only has immortality.

Secondly, keep assurance by humility: pride estranges God from the soul; when you are high in assurance, be low in humility. Saint Paul had assurance, and he baptizes himself with this name, chief of sinners, (1 Timothy 1:15). The jewel of assurance is best kept in the cabinet o…

God in this respect is most fit to be a Lawgiver; he is wise in heart (Job 9:4). He has a monopoly of wisdom (1 Timothy 1:17). The only wise God.

He is semper existens, namely, from everlasting to everlasting; it is God's title, a jewel of his crown. 1. He is called, The King Eternal (1 Timothy 1:17). 2. Jehovah, a word that properly sets out God's eternity; a word so dreadful, that the Jews trembled to name or read it, t…

This is that blessed harp which drives away sadness of spirit. Hear the sounding of this harp a little (1 Timothy 1:15): This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners; he took not only our flesh upon him, but our…

God is wise in heart, that is, he is most wise. First, God is only wise; he does monopolize and ingross all wisdom; therefore, he is called [reconstructed: the only wise God] (1 Timothy 1:17). All the treasures of wisdom are locked up in him, and no creature can have any wisdom,…

He is perfectly good: Earthly fathers are subject to infirmities: Elijah (though a prophet) was a man of like passions (James 5:17), but God is perfectly good: All the perfection we can arrive at in this life is sincerity; we may a little resemble God, but not equal him: He is i…

(Psalm 103:1). Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me bless his holy name. O! how should the vessels of mercy run over with praise: (1 Timothy 1:13). Who was before a persecutor, and injurious, but [in non-Latin alphabet] I obtained mercy. I was bemiracled with mer…

I am He that blots out sin for my own name's sake. As when a creditor freely forgives a debtor (1 Timothy 1:15). I obtained mercy.

For if that righteousness of his satisfied God, who in condemning us is greater than our hearts, then it may satisfy our hearts much more. The righteousness of his life and death is not only a sufficient ransom (1 Timothy 2:6), but there is 'plenteous redemption' in it (Psalm 13…

And not only so, but delivers them up to Satan — that being the consequence of it, which therefore, because it implies the former, is put to express the whole proceeding. Which delivery of him to Satan was not a giving him a commission to carry him on to more sin, for the end pr…

King Manasseh had sold himself to Idolatry and witchcraft, and had shed innocent blood exceeding much, and caused Judah to sin, 2 Kings 21, 6, 16; for which he was led captive: yet when he humbled himself and prayed, God was entreated of him. 2 Chronicles 33.13. And Paul saith o…

Some again are of mind, that love is the very nature and form of faith: but it is otherwise. For as confidence in God, so also love is an effect which proceeds from faith (1 Timothy 1:5). The end of the law is love from a pure heart and good conscience and faith unfeigned.

Reason 1. The faith whereby we live, is that faith whereby we are justified: but the faith whereby we live spiritually, is a particular faith whereby we apply Christ to ourselves, as Paul says (Galatians 2:20): I live, that is, spiritually, by the faith of the Son of God: which…

Therefore the place must be understood of the doctrine of Christ and not of his miracles alone, as Paul teaches in Galatians 1:8: If we or an angel from heaven preach to you anything beside that which we have preached, let him be accursed. And to this effect he blames those who…

There is one ground of boasting that the Lord will have removed in a sinner's justification and obtaining the pardon of sin by the imputation of the righteousness of Christ; but there is another ground or matter of boasting that man might have if he could reach out the hand to b…

The life (says the Apostle, Galatians 2) that I now live in the flesh, is by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. And (1 Timothy 1:15) this is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptance, that Jesus Christ came to the world to save sinners, of…

1. Because He meritoriously purchased life to them; which is the thing here mainly understood; as following immediately on the back of His sufferings. 2. Because they have life from Him efficiently, as He works it in them, and by the gospel begets them; therefore He is said (1 T…

For the Lord had nothing to procure to Himself; to speak simply, there could be no addition made to the glory of God thereby; therefore, it is said (John 6:39-40), This is the Father's will that has sent me, that of all that he has given me, I should lose nothing, but should rai…

2. It may be considered as it looks to the Mediator; and so it speaks out the Mediator's design and work; it is that wherein He is employed, and with which He is taken up, even to get elect sinners brought from under the curse of God, and freely justified through Himself. So tha…

3. Consider that as sometimes knowledge is put for faith, so this assent may be put for faith, where yet more is implied in it, especially considering that, (Romans 10), faith is called, faith of the heart, with the heart man believes; now believing with the heart being an act o…

The Scriptures which we cited before do confirm this, as Psalm 18:23. I kept myself from my iniquity; and 2 Chronicles 6:29. where Solomon says, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief; or as it is 1 Kings 8:38. The plague of his own heart. This implies these tw…

2. It is Antinomian doctrine to make opposition between the Gospel promise, and the debt of the promise: the debt of works (Romans 4 and Romans 11) is law-debt due to the worker, as a hireling is worthy of his wages, because he has done the work perfectly, according to a covenan…

1. Because no man — not the finest and sweetest nature — can engage the grace of Christ, or with his penny or sweating, earn either the kingdom of grace or glory, whether by way of merit of condignity or congruity (Romans 9:16): "So then, it is not in him that wills, nor in him…

The Apostle says (1 Corinthians 2:12), Now we have received not the Spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. The converted can say, I was such a man (1 Timothy 1:13). [illegible], but I obtained mercy;…

The churches of Galatia, to whom Paul prays, grace and peace. 1 Peter 3:18: for those that he was to bring to God, and in no place of Scripture, nor yet 1 Timothy 1:15, is it said, Christ died for sinners as sinners, but only for those that were sinners, which can never prove th…

And thus did that evangelical prophet Isaiah chiefly set forth the intent of Christ's sufferings for justification, Isaiah 53, throughout the chapter, as David before had done the story of his passion, Psalm 22. And thus to show the use and purpose of his sufferings was the scop…

Now if a man should pray for men in any calamity, how much more in this, the greatest of all the rest — we ought most to pray for our brethren when they sin. Reason 2: Taken from the duty that lies upon a Christian to exhort his brethren (Hebrews 3:12-13) and (Leviticus 19:17),…

Man had fallen from the love of God to the creature, and was conscious to himself of having displeased his maker, and so lay under the fears of his vindictive justice. Now God by Christ declares his love to the offender, in the fullest and most astonishing way, reconciling himse…

AMEN. 1 Timothy 1 — To the King everlasting, immortal, invisible, to God only wise be honor and glory for ever and ever. AMEN.

For otherwise he calls the law holy and good. As (1 Timothy 1) we know that the law is good, if it be rightly used: to wit, civilly to bridle evildoers, and spiritually to increase transgressions. But, whoever observes the law to obtain righteousness before God, makes the law wh…

Lastly all men are on this real manner with Paul to learn the same. For he is an example to all that shall believe in him to life everlasting (1 Timothy 1:12). Paul bids us do the good things which we have seen in him (Philippians 4:9).

But this exposition has its defects, and errors. For first of all, charity is not the form, or life of faith, but the fruit and effect of it (1 Timothy 1:5). The end of teaching is love out of a pure heart, good conscience, and faith unfeigned.

2. The most principal part of our change or renovation, is in the heart, where the spirit abides. The end of all teaching is love out of a pure heart, good conscience, and faith unfeigned (1 Timothy 1:5). 3. The beginning and principal part of God's worship is in the heart.

We are delivered from our enemies, that we may serve God in righteousness and holiness before him all the days of our lives without fear. Paul says that the law is not given to the righteous man (1 Timothy 1:9), because he is a law to himself, and freely does good duties, as if…

God has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him (2 Corinthians 5:21). Thirdly, in the object, The law is given to the unjust and lawless, ungodly, and profane (1 Timothy 1:9-10), that it may show them their sins, and the…

In the same manner Paul says: This is a faithful saying, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief, (1 Timothy 1:15.) As to Mark and Luke calling him Levi, it appears that this was his ordinary name: "Il est aise a voir que c'estoit son droit nom…

Nor is it without reason that Paul says, that though he was a blasphemer, he obtained pardon, because he had done it ignorantly in his unbelief (1 Timothy 1:13); for this term draws a distinction between his sin and voluntary rebellion.

And that whatever good they thus show to them, they do it freely, friendly, and without compulsion: and that all things may flow and spring from a well-willing and cheerful heart, that humbly thanks God, and praises his holy name, for all his gracious gifts, so largely and bount…

He that loveth another, hath fulfilled the Law. So likewise in 1 Timothy 1. 5. Now the End of the Commandment is Charity, of a pure Heart, etc.

And again, To God only wise be glory, through Jesus Christ forever. Amen. (Romans 16:27) To the King Eternal, Immortal, Invisible, the only wise God be honor and glory forever, etc. (1 Timothy 1:17) To the only wise God our Savior be glory and majesty, dominion and power now and…

The truth is, these ordinary Evangelists are a new fiction; their true employment was to be sent by the Apostles, from place to place, for the preaching of the Gospel, without a settled residence upon any one charge. Upon this advantage, you raise a slight argument, that St. Pau…

But yet not one of them, not any one that is now in heaven, Jesus Christ alone excepted, did ever come thither any other way but by forgiveness of sin; and that will also bring us thither, though we come short of many of them in holiness and grace. And this evidence of forgivene…

Or, 2. (which is not inconsistent with the former) some grace in the believer, acting on Christ, and quickening the new life; and seeing the scope is to commend the believer from inherent grace, and the new nature being compared to an inner-man, which is described from its sever…

And certainly a due love of God, and of our neighbor, will make us careful to perform all the duties of religion to the one, and of justice to the other, and keep us from attempting any violation to his honor, or violence to their right. And therefore the apostle tells us, that…

The longer a saint grows in this world, the better he is still acquainted with his own heart, and his obligations to God; both which are very humbling things. Paul had one foot in heaven, when he called himself the chiefest of sinners, and least of saints (1 Timothy 1:15; Ephesi…

The mercy he begged of God for them, was the greatest mercy, that which he was then dying to purchase and procure, the pardon of their sins; not only, Father spare them, or reprieve them, but, Father forgive them; the excuse he pleaded for them, was the best their crime was capa…

He is said to be Plenteous, Psalm 4:5. Abundant, 1 Peter 1:3. Rich, Ephesians 2:4. in mercy; then, that his Mercies are unsearchable, Ephesians 3:8. High as the Heaven above the Earth, Psalm 10:4. Which are so high and vast, that the whole Earth is but a small point to them: ind…

Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world (John 14:22)! The right knowledge of our former estate, and a due consideration thereof, makes us ascribe all the glory of our present dignity, and happiness, to Christ that altered our estate, as Saint…