Titus 1

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…

What the most perfect benignity! And those Cretians had received the Christian faith, whom the Apostle exhorts Titus to rebuke sharply, that they might be sound in it; and of whom he says, that professing to know God, in works they denied him, being abominable (Titus 1:16). Henc…

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…