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,…

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…

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.

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…

The law therefore is far inferior to the Gospel, because it was ordained by the Angels which are but servants, and endured but for a short time, whereas the Gospel was ordained by the Lord himself, to continue for ever (Hebrews 1). For it was promised before all worlds (Titus 1)…

Therefore by his own experience he testifies with Paul against the Jews, that the Gentiles were made the children of God and saved by faith alone in Jesus Christ, without the law or circumcision. Titus was not only a Christian but also the chief overseer in Crete: For to him Pau…

For then vnreformed life builds the kingdome of sinne, which Christ has destroied. Further, we are here taught to be constant in that which is good, Tit 1:9. and to hold fast the Gospel which we professe. We have put under foote the Popish religion for this many yeares: our duti…

Answer: It is: because it is upon good ground. For first of all, Paul gives this censure, by virtue of his calling: because his office was to reprove and correct vice (Titus 1:9 and 2:15). Secondly, it was in truth.

Answer. The more we are bound to obedience, the freer we are: because the service of God is not bondage, but perfect liberty. The second freedom is in the free use of all the creatures of God (Titus 1:15). To the pure, all things are pure (Romans 14:14).

This is agreeable to S. Pauls practise, who did admonish those among the Corinthians, that were carnall, and did not at the very first excommunicate thē, or yet suspend them: and so answerably, he commands Titus, that he should rebuke the Cretians sharpely, or pecisely, for the…

He shows then that Jesus Christ shall never be without enemies, which shall endeavor to overthrow his kingdom, to abolish or stop the free passage of his Gospel (otherwise the Prophet had said this without cause) but Jesus Christ shall destroy them by the sound of his word, as w…

For after the Temple was [reconstructed: razed] to the ground, Jerusalem destroyed, the service of God abolished, and the small remnant of the people that remained were oppressed under tyranny; who would ever have believed that these things could have been restored to their firs…

We must also consider what God enjoins on his prophets and the ministers of his word: for in this way their faithfulness may be easily ascertained. If, for example, we place before our minds what Paul requires in bishops, (1 Timothy 3:1-7; Titus 1:6-9,) that description will be…

Yet let us remember that we must be subject to God, in order that we may be exalted by him to the heavenly glory. 36. He was moved with compassion towards them Hence we infer, first, how great was the indolence of the priests, who, though they were scattered over the whole count…

Nay, the Papists are restrained by no shame from openly ridiculing God and his word, when they attempt to take us by surprise. And not without reason, therefore, does Paul enjoin a teacher to be furnished with armor for repelling the adversaries of the truth, (Titus 1:9.) With r…

For it is only faith and godliness, which sanctifies all things to us. And the faithless, as they are inwardly unclean, so they defile whatever they touch (Titus 1:15). 15 If your brother be grieved.

They have believed that Thou didst send Me. Titus 1:1: According to the faith of God's elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness. John 16:27: The Father Himself loveth you, because ye have loved Me, and have believed that I came out from God.

Hence Men Unregenerate are said to know the way of Righteousness, 2 Pet. 2. 21. that is, Notionally and Doctrinally; for Really, saith our Apostle they cannot. Hereon they profess that they know God, that is the things which they are taught concerning him and his will, while in…

Scripture speaks of two kinds of sanctification: the first is external, consisting in the peculiar dedication, consecration, or separation of persons and things unto the service of God by his own appointment — as the priests, Levites, ark, altar, tabernacle, and temple were sanc…

For, whereas the Gospel is eminently,[[original in non-Latin script]], or [[original in non-Latin script]], 1 Tim. 6. 3. Tit. 1. 1. The Truth or Doctrine which is according to Godliness, or that which is designed and every way suited to the attaining, furtherance and practice of…

Look, what we lost in Adam, is restored again with Advantage in Christ: immediately upon the fall, that curse, Genesis 2:17 seized upon all the miserable posterity of Adam, and upon all their comforts, outward as well as inward; and this still lyes heavy upon them: All that Prov…

Their prayers are turned into sin, Psalm 109:7 The Ordinances are the savour of Death, 2 Corinthians 2:16 The grace of God turned into wantonness, Jude v. 4. Christ himself a rock of Offence, 1 Pe. 2:8 Their Table a snare, Psalm 69:22 Their Prosperity their ruine, Proverbs 1:32…

And surely I must needs confess, this is the only countenance of your cause, which yet has been blanked more than once. Jerome tells us, you say, right down in Titus 1: Idem est ergo Presbyter, etc. Out of whose testimony you in sum collect, That A Presbyter and a Bishop were or…

In this very chapter, when Timothy is commanded to receive no accusation against an Elder, the Elder there is a teacher, as shall be shown in the next chapter. (Titus 1:5) that you may ordain Elders in every city — what kind of Elders? Surely, teachers; for he adds, if any be bl…

First, in the Apostles' Epistles the name of bishop did never signify anything different from the office of a presbyter. For a bishop, presbyter, and an apostle, were common names, as you may see (Acts 20), (Philippians 1:1), (Titus 1), (1 Peter 5:12), (Acts 1:20). Next.

Now to give evidence hereunto, and to beget a belief of it in us, he first engages a property of Gods nature in that business. He with whom we deal, is —as Titus 1:2. The God that cannot lye, that cannot deceive, or be deceived.

And these three concurring in all hard speeches, they cease to be rash and vniust censures. John Baptist calls the Pharisies and Sadduces, a generation of vipers, Matth. 3. 7. our Savior Christ calls themhypocrites, and painted tombes: andHerod, a foxe: the Prophet Isaiah calls…

Now they get this name for their resembling foxes, in three things, 1. In their abominable nature, for which they are called foxes, wolves, dogs, etc., and such like, which are abhorred and hated of all men, and so are these most hateful to God, and so ought they to be with all…

Now ministers must be exemplary both in themselves, and in their families. In themselves they must be blameless, as the stewards of God; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no strikers, not given to filthy lucre; lovers of hospitality, lovers of good men, sober,…

Many others might be added; but these I account sufficient to convince any atheist, who will indeed be swayed by that reason which he so much deifies and adores, that there is another God besides and above it. Well then, what remains, but that as we have evinced the folly and un…

12. That some spiritual good is exhibited in, and conveyed through the seals of the covenant. Such precious truths as these, Christians, you are to gather, and seal them up among your treasures, and you will find that such a treasure will furnish your minds with saving knowledge…

So in the Apostles Time, that People professed that to be in their Hearts towards God, which was not there. The Apostle is speaking of them, when he says, Titus 1:16, They profess that they know God, but in Works they deny him. This was common among that People; God declares the…

3. Meekness will curb the tongue, and keep the mouth as with a bridle when the heart is hot (Psalm 39:1-3). Even then when there may be occasion for a keenness of expression, and we are called to rebuke sharply ([illegible], cuttingly) (Titus 1:2), yet meekness forbids all fury…

There is an observable difference, but no contradiction between the directions Paul gives to Timothy, and those he gives to Titus in this matter. To Titus he writes to reprove sharply (Titus 1:13), and to rebuke with all authority (chapter 2, verse 15). To Timothy he writes not…

The old enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent is still working, and the old game every day played over again. The truth as it is in Jesus, and the truth which is according to godliness (Ephesians 4:21 compared with Titus 1:1) will be contradicted by th…

Now the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin (1 John 1:7). Besides the defilement of our natures which he purges (Titus 1:15), he takes away the defilement of our persons by actual follies: by one offering he perfected for ever them that are sanctified: by himself he p…

Fourth, they being given to him, and he undertaking for them to do and suffer what was on their part required, he received on their behalf and for them all the promises of all the mercies, grace, good things, and privileges which they were to receive upon the account of his unde…

It is to be kept as a treasure: 'that excellent deposit, keep it by the Holy Ghost' (2 Timothy 1:14). And 'hold fast the faithful word' (Titus 1:9) — it is a good treasure, a faithful word; hold it fast. It is a word that comprehends the whole interest of Christ in the world.

On the contrary, there is nothing wherein a man resembles God so much as in truth. Truth is no small part of the image of God, for he is called the God of Truth; and it is said of him (Titus 1:2) that he cannot lie. It is contrary to the perfection of his nature.

Objection. But is every private Christian bound to study controversy, so as to be able to answer all the adversaries of the truth? I answer: No; it is a special gift, bestowed and required of some that have leisure and abilities; and it is a duty required of ministers and church…

We have promises suited to every state, prosperity and adversity; what do we need, which we have not a promise of? Prosperity, that it shall not be our ruin, if we take it thankfully from God, and use it for God: for, to the pure all things are pure (Titus 1:15). But especially…