Titus

When we speak slightly of God or his works, God interprets it to be a contempt, and it is a taking his name in vain. 2. When we profess God's name, but do not live answerable to it, it is a taking his name in vain (Titus 1:16): In words they profess him, but in works they deny h…

8. The evil tongue is the lying tongue (Colossians 3:9): "Lie not one to another." The Cretians were noted for liars (Titus 1:12): [illegible] "The Cretians are always liars." It becomes not Christians to be Cretians.

2. The truth of God in the promises: God's truth is the seal set to the promise. (Titus 1:2) In hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie has promised. Eternal life, there is the sweetness of the promise: God which cannot lie, there is the certainty of it.

1. God has promised it, (Luke 12:32) it is your Father's good pleasure to give you a kingdom, (Luke 22:29) I appoint to you a kingdom, Greek [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], I bequeath it as my last will and testament: has God promised a kingdom, and will he not make it good? God's…

O then what need is there of sanctification. 5. Without sanctification all our holy things are defiled (Titus 1:15). To them that are defiled is nothing pure.

I have read of one Arthur a professed atheist, who when he came to die, cried out, he was damned. But though there are few found who say, There is no God, yet many deny him in their practices: (Titus 1:16) In works they deny him. Cicero said of Epicurus, Verbis reliquit Deos res…

He who has grace is sure of heaven, for he has heaven begun in him. A believer has an evidence of heaven (Hebrews 11:1): Faith is the evidence of things not seen; he has an earnest of glory (2 Corinthians 1:22): Who has also given us the earnest of his Spirit; an earnest is part…

This filth of sin is inward. A spot in the face may easily be wiped off, but to have the liver and lungs tainted is far worse; sin has got into the conscience (Titus 1:15). Sin defiles all the faculties, the mind, memory, affections, as if the whole mass of blood were corrupted,…

Quest. 17. Which are the principal institutions of the Gospel to be observed in the worship of God? Answ. (1.) The calling, gathering and setling of Churches with their Officers, as the seat and subject of all other solemn instituted worship. (2.) Prayer with thanksgiving. (3.)…

Acts 14:23: they ordained them elders in every Church. Titus 1:5: for this cause left I you in Crete that you should set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed you. 1 Corinthians 12:28; Ephesians 4:11, 12.

Qu. 22. Who are the extraordinary officers or rulers or ministers of the Church appointed to serve the Lord Jesus Christ therein for a season only? An. (1) The Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, with (2) the Evangelists and Prophets endowed with extraordinary gifts of the Holy G…

Quest. 23. Who are the ordinary officers or ministers of Christ in the Church to be always continued therein? Answ. Those whom the Scripture calls, pastors and teachers, bishops, elders, and guides (Acts 14:23; Acts 20:17, 18; 1 Corinthians 12:28; Ephesians 4:11; Philippians 1:1…

(1) Matthew 10:2; Luke 10:1; Galatians 1:1; Acts 1:26; Acts 6:3; Acts 14:23. (2) John 20:21, 22, 23; Galatians 1:1; Ephesians 2:20; Revelation 21:14; Acts 14:23; Titus 1:5, 7. (3) Matthew 28:18, 19, 20; 2 Corinthians 11:28; Acts 20:28; 1 Peter 1:2; Colossians 4:17.

(1) Ephesians 4:8, 11, 12, 13. (2) Titus 1:7, 8, 9; 2 Timothy 3:2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. (3) 1 Peter 5:2, 3.

The first way is unlawful, and destructive both of the office and duty of a Pastor. For as Elders are ordained in, and to the Churches respectively that they are to take care of (Acts 14:23; Titus 1:5), and their office power consists in a relation to the Church that they are se…

(4) In exhorting, comforting, and restoring to the enjoyment and exercise of Church privileges such as are recovered from the error of their ways; all according to the laws, rules, and directions of the Gospel. (1) (Matthew 18:15; 1 Thessalonians 5:14; 1 Corinthians 4:14; Titus…

(2) John 6:15; Acts 26:18; 1 Peter 2:9; 2 Corinthians 4:3, 4, 6. (3) 1 Timothy 1:19, 20; 2 Timothy 4:3, 4; Titus 1:13; Jude 3. (4) Ephesians 4:20, 21, 22, 23, 24.

I answer first; We refuse no traditions, which are agreeable to the Scripture, and analogy of faith: but such as are agreeable to one of these, we receive them, though not as Scripture. Secondly, if the Apostles in the New Testament do add anything in any story, which is not in…

And to the Corinthians, he propounds a sentence of Menander; Evil words corrupt good manners. First Corinthians 15. And to Titus, he alleges Epimenides, a Cretian Poet; The Cretians are always liars, evil beasts, slow bellies, Titus 1:12. Now whereas the spirit of God takes thes…

Hence the unbelieving wife is sanctified to the use of the believer: and she being an unbeliever dwelling with the believing husband is sanctified, to bring forth a holy seed to the use of the believer: though the child be born in sin, and by nature the child of wrath, as the mo…

These things were then, are still, and will always be to the Church Militant on the earth good things to come; and are the subject of Divine Promises concerning future things. In hope of Eternal Life, which God that cannot lie promised before the world began (Titus 1:2). But thi…

And the Lord Christ is there said to be [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] antecedently to his Resurrection: which must be with respect to his internal holiness, You shall not suffer your Holy One to see Corruption. And in the New Testament the word is every where used for him, that is…

There was so to the end that the promise might be sure to all the seed (Romans 4:16). Therefore God does not only declare the relation of it to his essential truth; God who cannot lie has given this promise of eternal life (Titus 1:1), but confirmed it with his oath, that by two…

Without the efficiency hereof, heavenly things would not be heavenly to the minds and souls of men; they would neither please them nor satisfie them, nor make them blessed. Unless they themselves are purged, all things, even heavenly things themselves would be unclean and defile…

Every thing they do is unclean in itself, and unclean to them. To them that are defiled nothing is pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled (Titus 1:15). Their works come from spiritual death, and tend to eternal death, and are dead in themselves.

And all the promises of God are the declarations of those purposes. And they also in themselves are immutable, for they depend on the essential truth of God (Titus 1:2): in hope of eternal life which God that cannot lie promised before the world began. God's essential veracity i…

1. It is God alone who promises. He alone is the Author of all Gospel promises; by him are they given to us (2 Peter 1:4; Titus 1:1). Hence in the sense of the Gospel, this is a just periphrasis of God, He who has promised.

[in non-Latin alphabet] (Romans 14:18): accepted with God, and approved with men. Hence [in non-Latin alphabet] is one rejected, disproved upon trial, reprobate (1 Corinthians 9:27; 2 Corinthians 13:5, 6; Titus 1:16). The whole is expressed (Jeremiah 6:29, 30): the bellows are b…

Have you faith, show it by your works: it is in vain to talk of faith without works answerable. When persons profess, that they believe, and trust in Christ, but do not walk in any measure answerably, they deceive themselves; yet many such there be, they profess to know God, but…

It is good to think much of that great and dreadful day, and thereby be stirred up to labor for, and to make sure of, a faith in Christ, which will not at last be found a dead faith; all such will be led forth with workers of iniquity, as Psalm 125, whose faith is when tried, bu…

What then means the many scandalous sins mentioned ver. 2, 3, 4. and what was this denying the power of godliness that is charged upon them? It is most like it was such a denying as that in Tit. 1:16. where they are said to profess to know God, but by works to deny him, being ab…

But some will say, God cannot do some things which man can do, as God cannot lie, nor deny himself: and therefore he is not omnipotent. Answer. Although some have thought that God could do even these things, and that he did them not, because he would not: yet we must know and be…

This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that you maintain constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. Titus 1. 8. The Lamp of faith must be filled with the oil of Charity.

Take heed of impaling the common salvation — enclosures are against the law. 3. It shows that there are not several ways to Heaven, there is but one common salvation to all the elect, and one common faith, as Paul says (Titus 1:4): to Titus my own son according to the common fai…

Moreover, as the judgments of wicked men are oft times contrary to themselves, so their censures are frequently contrary to their judgments: They oft times revile that person with their tongues, whom they reverence in their hearts; and their mouths censure those actions which th…

It may do so, when no demonstration is made of it in the outward conversation. For, by this means, the minds of men are defiled; and then nothing is clean, all things are impure to them (Titus 1:15). Their minds being thus defiled, do defile all things to them, their enjoyments,…

2. Though the Apostles and Evangelists traveled from one country to another, to preach Christ to such as never heard of him; yet where has he read that some of these who were mere▪ presbyters (for of such speaks the text in hand) did so likewise? It rather appears from Acts 14:2…

It is a point of controversie, who did beginne the division of parishes; but whoever it was, whether Evaristus, or Higinus, or Dionysius, certaine it is, that it was not so from the beginning, I meane in the daies of the Apostles, for then it was all one to say, in every City, o…

I answer, that they may understand the materials belonging to godliness as well as others, but yet they relish them not, they see them not with a spiritual eye. Titus 1:16, they are to every good work reprobate; they cannot judge aright of any good works, as to like, approve and…

In Philippians 1:1 we have Bishops and Deacons; and their institutions with the order of it, we have at large expressed in 1 Timothy 3:1, 2, Bishops and Deacons without the interposition of any other Order whatever; Deacons we have appointed in Acts 7, and Elders in Acts 14:23.…

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With Clement it is not so. Those whom he calls Bishops in one place, the very same persons he immediately calls Presbyters, (after the example of Paul, (Acts 20:28) and (Titus 1:5, 7)) and plainly asserts, Episcopacy to be the office of Presbyters, [in non-Latin alphabet], says…

Without any doubt the most holy doctrine is the most true. For the gospel itself is the truth according to godliness, as the apostle testifies in the letter to Titus (Titus 1:1). And it is likewise most efficacious; since "the word of God is living and effectual" (Hebrews 4:12);…

What is to be expected in or concerning the word of God from those to whom it has in no way been committed, and who are destitute of the Spirit, would be easy to show, were they not themselves a dreadful example of it. Approaching the most holy word of God with unwashed hands, w…

The gospel is the doctrine concerning God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and His worship, and the obedience we owe to Him. This doctrine, by its own nature, stirs the consciences of men to render that obedience (Titus 1:1, 11, 12). Moreover, it arouses souls to the ex…

In this practice of piety, or federal obedience — without which everything celebrated under that name is a bare name, or rather a kind of shadow and mask of wisdom — consists the entire vital exercise of this theology. Hence it is called not only the knowledge of the truth accor…

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.

Their duties are towards the household governors, or others. Titus 1:6. If any be unreproachable, the husband of one wife having faithful children, which are not slandered of riot, neither are disobedient. Toward the household governors, to be helpful to them in outward behavior…

Your kingdom come: the second sort has two petitions: the first is disposed in a simple axiom of the subject and adjoint, that the kingdom of God, which he exercises by his Son, may daily come; that is, be set up in glory, fit for it: this having two parts, his administration he…

But the truth is, this word gets not leave to sink in you as the Word of God; therefore our Lord says to His disciples (Luke 9:44), Let these sayings sink into your ears. There are these things I fear you do not believe, and let me not be thought to take on me to judge your cons…

Some are sick of pride, others of lust, others of envy. Sin has distempered the [in non-Latin alphabet], the intellectual part, 'tis a leprosy in the head, it has poisoned the vitals (Titus 2:16): Their conscience is defiled. 'Tis with a sinner as with a sick patient, his palate…

What are mercies for, but lodestones to draw us to holiness? What is the end of Christ's dying, but that his blood might wash away our unholiness (Titus 2:14), who gave himself for us, to purify to himself a peculiar people? So that if we are not holy, we cross God's great desig…

(John 17:17) Sanctify them through your truth. The Scripture presses holiness so as never any book did: it bids us live soberly, righteously, godly (Titus 2:12). Soberly, in acts of temperance; righteously, in acts of justice; godly, in acts of zeal and devotion.

There arose certain of the Synagogue, disputing with Stephen, and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spoke. We read in the Acts and Monuments of the Church, John Fryth, martyr, being opposed by three papists, he, like another Hercules, fighting wi…

Christ shed his blood to wash off our impurity. The cross was both an altar and a laver (Titus 2:14). Who gave himself for us, to redeem us from all iniquity.

He dares not convert his master's goods to his own use. (Titus 2:10) Not purloining. Ne aliquid haereat in digitis.

2. He must deny his unrighteousness. The Scripture seals no patents to sin, it teaches us to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts (Titus 2:11). We must divorce those sins which bring in pleasure and profit.

2. The second branch of this sixth petition is, Libera nos a malo; Deliver us from evil. There is more in this petition than is expressed: The thing expressed is, that we may be kept from evil: The thing further intended is, that we may make a progress in piety (Titus 2:11). Den…

1. That he offered himself a sacrifice to God, to make atonement for our sins, and that in his death and sufferings (Isaiah 53:10): "When you shall make his soul an offering for sin" (John 1:29): "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world" (Ephesians 5:2): "Chr…

1 Tim. 3:16. Without controversie great is the mysterie of godliness, God was manifested in the flesh. Tit. 2:13. Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearance of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us. Hebrews the first throughout.

(2) 1 Timothy 3:5; Colossians 4:17; 2 Corinthians 10:4, 8. (3) 1 Timothy 4:11; Titus 2:15; 1 Peter 1:2, 3, 4, 5. Explication.

This is one end therefore the Lord Christ calls them out of the World, separates them to be a peculiar people to himself, brings them forth to a visible profession, and puts his name upon them, namely that in their walking, and conversation, he may show forth the holiness of his…

(4) In exhorting, comforting, and restoring to the enjoyment and exercise of Church privileges such as are recovered from the error of their ways; all according to the laws, rules, and directions of the Gospel. (1) (Matthew 18:15; 1 Thessalonians 5:14; 1 Corinthians 4:14; Titus…

(4) That the Lord having called them to faith, repentance, and newness of life by Jesus Christ, they give up themselves to be saved by him, and to obey him in all things; and therefore (5) are willing and ready through his grace, to walk in subjection to all his commands, and in…

Q. Justification, Adoption, and Sanctification are excellent benefits that come to believers through Christ; tell me what other benefits do accompany or flow from these? A. In this life there does accompany or flow from them assurance of God's love, lively hope, and expectation…

As, first, for this end hath God caused the Gospel to be published. Titus 2:12, The saving grace of God hath appeared; but to what end? To teach us, that we should deny ungodliness, and live soberly and righteously: that is, that we might do Justice.

But yet there was moreover a real purification of the most of these things. The Church, or the souls and consciences of men, were really cleansed, purified and sanctified with an internal spiritual purification (Ephesians 5:25, 26; Titus 2:14). It was washed in the blood of Chri…

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…

Secondly, as it is sprinkled, it worketh the second part of this effect. And this sprinkling of the Blood of Christ, is the communication of its sanctifying virtue to our souls, see (Ephesians 5:26, 27; Titus 2:14); so does the Blood of Christ the Son of God cleanse us from all…

For they are all of them things good, benign, beautiful, useful to mankind, such as give peace, quietness, and blessedness to the souls of them in whom they are, as tend to the restoration of all things in their proper order; and to the relief of the universe laboring under its…

An excellent, and wonderful thing is in the way of the Gospel: in itself it is so, and to all that have a right understanding of it (Philippians 3:8). Also it is powerful in melting the heart for, and turning of it from sin (Titus 2:11, 12). (3) Perhaps your faith is a cover of,…

And here consider that nothing sets a man more against Sin, and strengthens him in his Warfare, then a true discovery of the way of the Gospel. Tit. 2:11, 12. the grace of God teaches us to deny ungodliness. 2. Such persons never had the matter brought to tryal, in their own Sou…

And the clause which is specified in Saint Matthew is not to be omitted, that Joseph wrapped Christ's body in a clean linen cloth (Matthew 27:59): whereby we learn, that however the strange fashions fetched from Spain and Italy are monstrous and to be abhorred: yet, seeing the b…

While he is fighting with temptation, hope is a helmet; while he is upon the waters of affliction, hope is an anchor; the anchor of a ship is cast downwards, the anchor of the soul is cast upwards in heaven. A saint's hope is a purifying hope (1 John 3:3), a deathbed hope (Prove…

Some live Atheism; there are Antinomians in practise: an apostate is a practical Arminian. Therefore Christians are called to hold forth the word of life in their conversations (Philippians 2:16), and to make the doctrine of God the Savior comely (Titus 2:10), by glorifying God…

This use is threefold: in respect of God, of man, and of ourselves. Works are to be done in respect of God: that his commandments may be obeyed — 1 John 5:12; that his will may be done — 1 Thessalonians 4:3; that we may show ourselves to be obedient children to God our Father —…

Thus the whole man is made a new creature, fit and capable for rendering proper obedience to God according to the norm of the new covenant (Jeremiah 32:39; Ezekiel 11:19, 36:26; Acts 26:18; Romans 7:2, 11; 2 Corinthians 4:6; Ephesians 2:2–5, 4:23, 24; 2 Corinthians 5:17). The si…

The forgiveness of this sin is had in Christ, who was condemned as a blasphemer: this righteousness is imputed to us from him (John 17:1, 34, 5-6, etc.; Hebrews 5:7-8). And with this grace, the other, to be godly and just, is always given (Titus 2:13 and 12:13). Hence we are tau…

Besides godliness contained in the first table, and righteousness in the second: there is commanded in the whole, sobriety or temperance, which is the moderate and sparing use of all bodily benefits, as of food, apparel, rest and recreation, the which temperance is a means to ma…

For the second part he says (1 Corinthians 10:31), "Whether therefore you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God: give no offence, neither to the Jew nor to the Grecian, nor to the Church of God." And again, the apparel even of women, must be such as become…

[1 Timothy 5:14. I will therefore, that the younger women marry, and bring forth children, and govern the house, and give no occasion to the adversary, to speak evil. Titus 2:5. That they be temperate, pure, tarrying at home, good, subject to their husbands, least that the word…

Being led by the occasion of their unjust and unmerciful dealing with him, had a full persuasion, and feeling of the sight and justice of the Lord, and so made use of that glorious title, the Lord to terrify them, and bring them to repentance. The use of his titles must be eithe…

He aims at this, that you should get your souls saved from wrath, and this should not be prejudicial, nor at the long run unsatisfying to your selves, and it will be very satisfying to Him. 2. It is not only to aim at salvation simply, but to aim at it by Him, to aim at pardon o…

6. His coming in the world has no such Arminian end, that we read of, as a possible saving, or an obtained salvation, that thousands, indeed not one in the world may ever enjoy; but he came to seek, and actually, and intentionally, to save that which was lost (Luke 19:10), to sa…

This spiritual washing and cleansing of Believers was the End for which Christ so abased himself and gave himself for them. Titus 2:14. Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all Iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar People.

That which fell among thorns are they which when they have heard go forth, and are choked with cares and riches, and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection. He is not a scholar of Christ, who is not more devoted to the love and obedience of God, than any sensua…

And men are here said to be delivered & takē out of the world, when they are seuered from the condition of sinnfull men by sanctification, and newnes of life, and by divine protection, whereby they are preserued from euill after they are sanctified. Tit 2:14. and Ioh. 17. 15. A…

And the workes that God has ordained for vs to walke in, are the best workes of all, euen workes of grace. Againe, he says, that we are not saved by workes of mercie, Tit 2:5. It may be obiected, that there is a Cooperation of works and faith, I am. 2. 21.

Ioh. 2. 4. and 3. 6. Tit. 2. last. The use.

By faith we wait] Faith apprehends the promise, and thereby brings forth hope: and faith by means of hope makes them that believe to wait. Hope of righteousness] that is, salvation or life eternal, which is the fruit of righteousness (Titus 2:13), or again, righteousness hoped f…

Tim 4:2. and Titus, that he rebuke and exhort with all authoritie. Tit 2:15. Further, it is to be obserued, that though all men are bound to reprooue their neighbours if they offend, yet in fiue cases they are not bound.

We are admitted by adoption into the family of God, that we, on our part, may yield obedience as children to a father. For “the kindness and love (φιλανθρωπία) of God our Savior toward man,” (Titus 3:4,) “has appeared unto all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and world…

30. For my eyes have seen This mode of expression is very common in Scripture; but Simeon appears to denote expressly the bodily appearance of Christ, as if he had said, that he now has the Son of God present in the flesh, on whom the eyes of his mind had been previously fixed.…

He reconciles us to the Father on this condition, that, being redeemed by his blood, we may present ourselves true sacrifices, as Paul tells us: The grace of God, which brings salvation, has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should…

But while the greater part of men, forgetful of their end, fall off on all sides, let us remember that it is a virtue peculiar to believers, to seek the things which are above, (Colossians 3:1) and especially since the grace of God has shone upon us through the Gospel, teaching…

Zeal is also spoken of, as a very essential Part of the Religion of true Saints. 'Tis spoken of as a great Thing Christ had in view, in giving himself for our Redemption; Titus 2. 14. Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify with himself a p…

2. In order to Men's being true Christians, it is necessary that they prosecute the Business of Religion, and the Service of God with great Earnestness and Diligence, as the Work which they devote themselves to, and make the main Business of their Lives. All Christ's peculiar Pe…

Thus we are exhorted not to receive the Grace of God in vain, 2 Cor. 6. 1. I Answer the Grace of God may be considered two Ways. (1.) Objectively for the Revelation or Doctrine of Grace; as Tit. 2. 11, 12. So we are said to Receive it when we believe and profess it, in oppositio…

For this it plainly declares, Col. 3. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Tit. 2. 11, 12. Sect. 54 There are but two things wherein Men seeking after Contentment and Satisfaction are concerned.

(2) The Application of the Death and Blood of Christ to our Souls for our Sanctification by the Holy Ghost, is said to be for our cleansing and purging, Ephes. 5. 26, 27. Christ loved the Church and gave himself for it, that he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of…

It is more pains to some to follow their sins, than to others to worship their God. While the sinner travails with his sin, in sorrow he brings forth; it is called serving various lusts (Titus 3:3). Not enjoy, but serve: why so, because not only of the slavery in sin, but the ha…

If God does not turn away our prayer, then he does not turn away his mercy. 11. God shows mercy in saving us (Titus 3:5): According to his mercy he saved us. This is the [illegible], the top stone of mercy, and it is laid in heaven.

Question. But are not works required in the covenant of grace? Answer. Yes (Titus 3:8): This is a faithful saying, that they which believe in God be careful to maintain good works. But the covenant of grace does not require works in the same manner as the covenant of works did.

Quest. What are the signs of sanctification? Resp. 1. Such as are sanctified can remember a time when they were unsanctified (Titus 3:3). We were in our blood, and then God washed us with water, and anointed us with oil (Ezekiel 16:9).

Fifthly, God remembers all our deeds of charity, and takes them kindly at our hands. Hebrews 6:10. God is not unrighteous to forget your labor of love which you have shown toward his name, in that you have ministered to the saints. The chief butler may forget Joseph's kindness,…

Justification is free (Romans 3:24): Being justified freely by his grace. Salvation is free (Titus 3:5): According to his mercy he saved us. Say not then I am unworthy, for mercy is free: If God should show mercy only to such as are worthy, he should show mercy to none at all.

John 3:16, God so loved the world, as he gave his only begotten Son (Romans 3:24, 25), whom he has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood (Romans 5:7, 8). God commends his love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us (Titus 3:4; 1 Joh…

(4) In exhorting, comforting, and restoring to the enjoyment and exercise of Church privileges such as are recovered from the error of their ways; all according to the laws, rules, and directions of the Gospel. (1) (Matthew 18:15; 1 Thessalonians 5:14; 1 Corinthians 4:14; Titus…

Q. If God did not work the deliverance of man because himself had need of it, or because man did desire it, what then was the cause that moved him to it? A. Only his free grace, mercy, and love (John 3:16; Ephesians 2:4, 5; Titus 3:4, 5). Q. What is the true way and means of del…

What is the cause of our justification? The impulsive cause that moves God to justify a sinner is nothing else but his free grace (Romans 3:24; Titus 3:7). What is that for which God does justify?

Q. What ought to be the life of them that are in Christ? A. A course of holy obedience, and service to God all the days of their life (Luke 1:74, 75; 1 Peter 1:14, 15, 16, 17; Titus 3:8; Ephesians 2:10). Q. What is the general rule of obedience?

And there is no greater evidence of any person's being uninterested in the restoration of all things by Christ, than the want of that Love which was again introduced thereby. So the Apostle describing the condition of men in their unregenerate condition, affirms that they live i…

The grace of life (1 Peter 3:7). Eternal life (Titus 3:7). God himself who has promised to be our reward (Romans 8:17).

First, real and internal in regeneration and effectual sanctification. The washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost (Titus 3:5; 1 Thessalonians 5:23). But this is not that which is here intended.

It is not always a sin to be angry, and therefore it is said of Christ (in whom was no blemish of sin) that he was angry, yet we must look that our anger be moderate, not continuing overlong, as Paul says, "Let not the sun go down on your wrath." The fifth fruit of the spirit is…

God the Son aimed at it in all his sufferings and condescensions, that he might make a large purchase for us, and we might not be straitened in grace. The Spirit of God is poured out [〈in non-Latin alphabet〉], richly (Titus 3:6). There is mercy enough in God the Father, merit en…

Objection. Remission of sins, regeneration, and salvation is ascribed to the sacrament of baptism in Acts 22:16, Ephesians 5, Galatians 3:27, and Titus 3:5. Answer: Salvation and remission of sins is ascribed to baptism and the Lord's Supper as to the word, which is the power of…

The proportion of the argument required that Saint Paul should have said: The reward of good works is eternal life, if life everlasting could be deserved, which cannot be: because it is a free gift. Again (Titus 3:5): We are saved not by works of righteousness which we have done…

What if some Religious men be seditious or rebellious against Magistrates, Religion has protested against it (Romans 13:1). Let every soul be subject to the higher powers, and if men forget their duty, Religion commands to put them in mind to be subject to principalities and pow…

But more must be said about this principle afterwards. 3. Then, third: "No one is regenerate except by the power of the Holy Spirit, by whose efficacious operation all who are born of God are translated from spiritual death to life" (John 3:5, 6, 1:13; Titus 3:5). 4. And therefo…

Hence to be born again and to be begotten of God are the same. Now God accomplishes this His work through the Spirit and the word: born again not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the living word of God (1 Peter 1:23); that is, through the washing of regeneratio…

The first is this, when we speak of the peculiarness of the way of faith's concurring in justification, so as no other grace or work does, we design not to weaken, or cry down the necessity of repentance, and of other graces, nor of good works, the very thoughts of which we abho…

I shall therefore, in a word or two, explain it, by comparing the two covenants. The righteousness of the covenant of works is an inherent righteousness, as it is (Titus 3:5): "Not by works of righteousness which we have done." It is a righteousness of our own doing, made up of…

6. But for the ground, reason, and cause on Christ's part of drawing, it is free grace, and only free grace, which are held forth in these positions. Position 1. As there is no merit, good deserving, work, or hire in the miserable sinner dying in his blood, dead in sins, out of…

Christ can make me a King, therefore I'll be drawn to him. Poor Adam out-witted himself, turned distracted, he studied an apple, so while he studied all his posterity out of their wits, and now we are born [illegible], mad fools (Titus 3:3). What is the Gospel? but a mass, a sea…

Object 6. "All men" here in 1 Timothy 2:6 intentionally, expressly, principally and especially is meant of the first sort, for natural men, sons of Adam, sinners, unbelievers. 1. Because this sense includes all, at first all men, having some in which they are such, and neither b…

the heirs of salvation. They are described (Titus 3:7), That being justified by grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. They are not ministers of conversion and sanctification; to this ministry Christ has called men, not Angels; but in preserving th…

This is not done by changing of a garment, or by any laws or works, but by a new birth, and by the renewing of the inward man, which is done in baptism, as Paul says: All you that are baptized, have put on Christ. Also: According to his mercy has he saved us by the washing of th…

For it serves to make us to live to God, that is, to the honor and glory of God. And we live to God by living wisely, godly, justly (Titus 3:12). Wisely, in respect of ourselves: godly, in respect of God: justly, in respect of men.

Cor 6:11. Tit 3:5. The dipping of the bodie, signifies mortification, or fellowship with Christ in his death: the staying under the water, signifies the buriall of sinne: and the comming out of the water, the resurrection from sinne, to newnes of life.

And Paul says (Ephesians 2:10), We are not saved by works which God has ordained, that we should walk in: and these are the best works that are or can be. Again (Titus 3:5), Of his mercy he saved us, and not of works of righteousness. By this text we further see, that we and the…

There is great reason why men should restore their brethren in all meekness: for without it there is nothing but swelling, and faction, but troubles, and tragedies. Again, as meekness is necessary for every Christian (Colossians 2:12; Titus 3:2), so it is most necessary for him…

But the discussing of this argument, whether Timothie were an Euangelist properly so called, and whether the same man could not be an Euangelist, and a bishop, requirs a longer discourse, then can be affoarded to this short treatise. Lastly, the postscript of the Epistle to T[•]…

We are admitted by adoption into the family of God, that we, on our part, may yield obedience as children to a father. For “the kindness and love (φιλανθρωπία) of God our Savior toward man,” (Titus 3:4,) “has appeared unto all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and world…

If any one is tickled "Si quem titillat major curiositas." — "S'il y a quelqu'un chatouille de curiosite qui en demande d'avantage." — "If any one is tickled by a curiosity, which asks for more of it." by a keener curiosity, I remember Paul's admonition, and prefer sobriety and…

"Si leur repentance est vraye, et si c'est it bon escient qu'ils vienent k luy." -- "If their repentance is true, and if it is in good earnest that they come to him." It ought to be observed, that good works (Titus 3:8) are here called fruits of repentance: for repentance is an…

On the contrary, we are all by nature unholy, and prone to rebellion. The remedy of salvation must be refused to none, till they have rejected it so basely when offered to them, as to make it evident that they are reprobate and self-condemned, (αὐτοκατάκριτοι,) as Paul says of h…

As it was the design of Christ to withdraw his disciples from a transitory joy, that they might glory in eternal life, he leads them to its origin and source, which is, that they were chosen by God and adopted as his children. He might indeed have commanded them to rejoice that…

I pass by general figures, which occur frequently in Scripture, and only say this: whenever an outward sign is said to be that which it represents, it is universally agreed to be an instance of metonymy. If baptism be called the laver of regeneration, (Titus 3:5;) if the rock, f…

But at the commencement of the gospel God was far more clearly revealed in Three Persons; for then the Father manifested himself in the Son, his lively and distinct image, while Christ, irradiating the world by the full splendor of his Spirit, held out to the knowledge of men bo…

And to the same Purpose is Isaiah 65. 25. Accordingly we find, that in the primitive Times of the Christian Church, Converts were remarkably changed in this Respect: Titus 3. 3, etc. 'For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers Lusts and P…

As the Clouds filled with a moist vapour pour down Rain, Job 36. 27. until it water the Ridges of the Earth abundantly, setling the Furrows thereof, and making it soft with Showers; as Psal. 65. 10. which with the things following in that place, v. 11, 12, 13. are spoken Allegor…

And because there is in it a Communication of a new Spiritual Life, it is called a Vivification or quickning, with respect to the State wherein all Men are, before this Work is wrought in them and on them, Ephes. 2. 1, 5. which is the Work of the Spirit alone; for it is the Spir…

Isa. 4. 4. chap. 44. 3, 4. Titus 3. 4, 5. But it is the Nature and Manner of his Work herein, with the Effect produced thereby that we are to enquire into.

But we need not go to the writings of other penmen of the Scripture; but if we will allow the apostle Paul to be his own interpreter, he when he speaks of our own righteousness as that which we are not justified or saved by, does not mean only a ceremonial righteousness, nor doe…

Secondly, the want of these six particulars for a time is no argument of a man's non-election; for before conversion (which is God's first dealing with a sinner) an elect man may be as vile, and as bad as any wicked man alive. As the Apostle Paul tells us (Titus 3:3): In times p…

1. The love of God to us (1 John 3:14). 2. The glory of the Gospel exceedingly exalted thereby (Titus 3:8, 15; Matthew 5, 6). 3. The union whereunto we are brought in Christ; with the common inheritance promised to us all.

Secondly, Because he did it, [in non-Latin alphabet], by himself alone, without the use or application of any other medium to them that are purged. When real inherent sanctification is with washing of water by the word (Ephesians 5:26), or by regeneration and renewing of the Hol…

Such the Church never wanted, such are required to watch (Acts 20:24) against wolves, and such in the Church of Ephesus are commended (Revelation 2:3-4) for putting this direction in execution. 2. The duty here required is to take them, as men use to hunt foxes till they be take…

(2 Timothy 2:14) Charge them before the Lord, that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers. And (Titus 3:8) these things I will that you affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God, be careful to maintain good works: these thing…