2 Timothy 1

To preach and not to catechize, is to build without a foundation; this way of catechizing is not novel, it is apostolical; the primitive church had their forms of catechism. So much those phrases imply, a form of sound words (2 Timothy 1:13). And the first principles of the orac…

Show your piety by your pity. 2. Walk holily; yours is a holy calling (2 Timothy 1:9). You are called to be saints (Romans 1:7).

The saints of old had it (1 John 2:3): We know that we know him. 2 Timothy 1:12: I know whom I have believed; here was Sensus Fidei, the reflex act of faith; and (Galatians 2:20) Christ has loved me. Here was faith flourishing into assurance.

The Spirit excites, strengthens, increases grace, and makes a Christian go from one step of faith to another, till he comes to the end of his faith — salvation (1 Peter 1:9). It is a fine expression of the Apostle (2 Timothy 1:14): The Holy Ghost which dwells in us. He who dwell…

Contentment is a rare jewel, it is the cure of care. If we have God to be our God; well may we be contented, I know whom I have believed (2 Timothy 1:12). There was Paul's interest in God (2 Corinthians 6:10).

3. Love to our heavenly Father is seen by loving his children (1 John 5:1): Every one that loves him that begat, loves him also that is begotten of him. If we love God, the more we see of God in any, the more we love them; we love them though they are poor: A child loves to see…

Those trees of righteousness that blossom and bear almonds can remember when they were like Aaron's dry rod, not one blossom of holiness growing: a sanctified soul can remember when he was estranged from God through ignorance and vanity, and then free grace planted this flower o…

2. The soul-dress is the exciting and stirring up the habit of grace into a lively exercise. (2 Timothy 1:6) I put you in remembrance, that you stir up the gift of God which is in you: that is, the gifts and graces of the Spirit. The Greek word to stir up, [in non-Latin alphabet…

You desire truth in the inward parts. Sincerity is the sauce which seasons all our actions, and makes them savory; it is the ingredient into every grace: It is called faith unfeigned (2 Timothy 1:5), and love [illegible] in sincerity (Ephesians 6:24). Coin will not go current th…

And if this be supposed and conceded to, then it will follow that he must justify us for our works, whereas the Apostle assures us that such a notion does certainly exclude grace, and brings in vain boasting, which God had design wholly to remove in the way of man's being justif…

(5) 1 Corinthians 16:10. (6) 2 Timothy 1:16, 17, 18; 2 Timothy 4:16. Quest. 30. Are there any differences in the Office, or Offices, of the Guides, Rulers, Elders or Ministers of the Church?

(2) Ephesians 4:8, 12, 13. (3) 1 Timothy 4:14; 2 Timothy 1:6, 7; Colossians 4:17; Matthew 25:14, 15, 16. (4) 1 Corinthians 12:7.

For the unity of faith is the foundation of love and all the duties thereof, which in an especial manner are to be performed towards the Church, called therefore the household of faith. There is among the members of the Church one faith (Ephesians 4:5): the common faith, the fai…

Q. When were all these things decreed by God? A. Before the world was created, even from everlasting (1 Corinthians 2:7; Ephesians 1:4; 3:11; 1 Peter 1:20; 2 Timothy 1:9). Q. What was the cause of God's decrees?

By RICHARD MATHER, Teacher to the Church at Dorchester in New England. Hold fast the form of sound words which you have heard of me in faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 1:13). When for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again th…

Hence Luther had his major as well as his minor Catechismus: and Beza his larger confession of the faith as well as his shorter. Yes, the Apostle Paul (whose example was now precedential, as being indeed authentic and binding to imitation) he committed to Timothy a platform of s…

To this end, the Lord put of his spirit upon the seventy, which were to rule with Moses, Numbers 11.17. Now, the spirit of God, is not a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind, 2 Timothy 1.7. Which shows, that in a Magistrate must be courage to call, and…

For, though they sin, and so lose often the comfort of a good conscience for a time; yet they then lose not their righteousness, which is then in Christ; and to consider, that, when in this world they sustain losses or injuries, or lose all they have upon the earth: that yet the…

This sacred truth which had been hid for so many ages in the Church, and which undeniably manifests the certain future introduction of another and a better Priesthood, is here brought to light, and improved by the Apostle. As life and immortality, so all spiritual truth, was bro…

Neither will the first compleat our interest in that body without the latter. Hence are they frequently conjoyned by our Apostle, not only as those which are necessary to, but as those which essentially constitute the union of the whole mystical body and communion therein (Galat…

This he believed, and had an infallible certainty thereof, because God has so promised. So also (2 Timothy 1:12), [in non-Latin alphabet], I know whom I have believed, and am perswaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him. He uses the same expression in mat…

This is frequently mentioned as an especial privilege and advantage of the Gospel-state (Ephesians 3:12; Hebrews 3:6; Chap. 4:16; Chap. 10:19, 35; 1 John 3:21; Chap. 4:17; Chap. 5:14). And on the contrary, the state under the Levitical Priesthood is described as a state of fear…

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His appearance before God in Heaven, is his [in non-Latin alphabet]. And his illustrious appearance at the last day, is his [in non-Latin alphabet]; though that word be used also to express his glorious manifestation by the Gospel (2 Timothy 1:10); see 1 Timothy 3:16, 1 John 3:8…

It was as sundry other important truths, made known under the Old Testament, sparingly and obscurely. But life and immortality with this great means of them both, were brought to light by the Gospel (2 Timothy 1:10), all things concerning them being made plain, clear and evident…

Let those who stand in need of grace and mercy, (as who does not) expect them wholly from the sovereign will and pleasure of God, who is gracious to whom he will be gracious (James 1:5). Our own endeavors are means in this kind for obtaining grace in the measures and degrees of…

Therefore as God engages his omnipotency or all-sufficiency as the foundation of all his covenant actings towards us (Genesis 17:1), so he often pleads the same power to assure us of the accomplishment of his promises (Isaiah 40:28, 29). And it is expressly asserted as the princ…

(3.) A ministration to them, as to the things that may be outwardly wanting, as many did to Paul (Acts 24:23). (4.) The owning and avowing of them, as not being ashamed of their chains, bonds, or sufferings (2 Timothy 1:16, 17). (5.) A readiness to undergo hazards, difficulties…

And it is so by the LXX (Judges 13:8; 2 Kings 12:2; chap. 17:27). Our Apostle uses it for to make manifest, that is, bring to light (1 Corinthians 4:5; 2 Timothy 1:10). And the meaning of it (John 1:9), where we render it lighteth, is to teach.

It is eternal, because it was set down by God from everlasting before all times, as Paul says, God has chosen the Ephesians to salvation before all worlds (Ephesians 1:4). And he says of himself, that he was called according to the purpose of God, which was before all worlds (2…

If any should be so foolish as to object the unsuitableness of dedicating a comment on the Scripture to one of your sex (as it seems some did to Jerome) I shall not plead, that two of the books of Scripture are named from women, Ruth and Esther, that an epistle which makes up a…

Again, they are called from misery to happiness and glory, from aliens to be friends, from darkness to light (1 Peter 2:9), from being enemies to be reconciled, from bastards to become sons, from vessels of wrath to be heirs of glory. With respect to all these sorts of calling,…

Again, works are to be done in regard of men: that our neighbor may be helped in worldly things — Luke 6:38; that he may be won by our example to godliness — 1 Peter 3:14; that we may prevent in ourselves the giving of any offense — 1 Corinthians 10:32; that by doing good we may…

But to a guilty conscience the rustling leaves are drums and trumpets. God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of love and of a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7). A sound mind, as it stands there in opposition to the spirit of fear, is a conscience unwounded by guilt.

See 1 Timothy 1:19: "Holding faith and a good conscience, which some having put away, concerning faith have made shipwreck" — and therefore they were vessels laden with some kind of faith; they had of that ware in their vessels, for how else could they make shipwreck of it. So i…

No other sense can the text suffer but that by Presbytery we should understand consessus Presbyterorum, a meeting of Elders, and so do Camero and Forbesse themselves expound it. Sutlivius objects to the contrary, that the Apostle Paul did lay on hands upon Timothy, which he prov…

For we are obliged to convict the first of imperfection both with respect to the doctrine it reveals — which, not exceeding the scope of the law, as we have said, contains nothing akin to the knowledge of Christ — and also with respect to the manner of perceiving divine things,…

Forbidden hypocrisy, vain glory, etc. (Matthew 6:5; 1 Corinthians 13:3; Philippians 1:16; Philippians 2:3). Sobriety in affection, is to hold them in, so that they pass not measure (2 Timothy 1:6; Titus 1:8). Thus much of feeling.

And (Deuteronomy 30) and (Joshua 24) it's called a choosing of the Lord, and that upon deliberation, as knowing that we have need of him, that he is a Savior suited completely to all the necessities of our souls, and that we are warranted to believe on him; it's the native act a…

Therefore He is called a tried, elect, precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; and indeed that is no small ground of confidence, that when a soul comes to Christ by believing, it may be sure He will not fail it. 2. Being sure that we have committed ourselves to Christ (which su…

And M. Saltmarsh says the same, that our sorrow, repentance, mortification, and change of the whole man, are nothing in us; but they are in Christ, and must be apprehended by faith, as things unseen: whereas the divine nature is in the Saints (2 Peter 1:4). Faith dwells in us (2…

3. The Scripture both calls it impossibility, and also rebukes it as sinful (John 6:44), (Romans 8:6-8), (Ephesians 2:1-3, 11-13), (Ephesians 4:17-19), (Ephesians 5:8). Asser. 3. All preparations even wrought in us, by the common and general restraining grace of God, can have no…

It is true, the word, the works of God, are not the principal object of faith, nor objectum quod; faith rests only on God, and the Lord Jesus (John 14:1; 1 Thessalonians 1:8). Your faith toward God (1 Peter 1:21; Deuteronomy 1:32; John 3:12; Genesis 15:6; Daniel 6:23; Romans 4:3…

7. Indeed, upon this reasonless and fleshly ground, if we may omit praying, and so believing, loving, repenting, mortifying our lusts, when the Spirit stirs us not to these acts, and say, if God will suffer me to sin, let him see to it, then upon the same ground all the justifie…

The Holy Ghost shall come down upon you, as it were with fiery tongues, and shall warm and heat you, with whatever duties God shall call you to (1 Thessalonians 5:19). Quench not the Spirit; now quenching belongs to fire, a sign therefore that the spirit is of a fervent nature,…

Christ was forsaken of his disciples but not forsaken of his Father. So Paul (2 Timothy 1:16): "At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me." (Psalm 41:9) "My familiar friend in whom I trusted has lifted up his heel against me."

Meditate on them, seek after them. First begin with the sureness of Christian doctrine, that you may lay a good foundation that Christ is the teacher of the Church, who has brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel (2 Timothy 1:10). Then penitently sue out your pa…

Then for his power and sovereign dominion, there is not a better argument for confidence, than the preface and conclusion of the Lord's Prayer. Whatever state you are reduced to, God is still to be trusted, who is Our Father, which is in Heaven, and whose is the kingdom, power a…

(2.) His goodness and fatherly love, (Psalm 100:2) "Serve the Lord with gladness, and come before his presence with singing." (3.) His holiness, (2 Timothy 1:3) "I thank God whom I serve from my forefathers, with pure conscience." (2 Timothy 2:22) "With them that call on the Lor…

The Gospel is the very word of God, both the Father's and the Son's, it is an act of loving, serving, and pleasing God, for this is the word Christ preached, that we love God, and Christ loves us again. 3. A prospect of eternal happiness, (2 Timothy 1:10) He has brought life and…