Titus 2

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…

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.

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…

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 —…

Query 1. Does religion in any way countenance or patronize the sinful practices of its professors, or does it not rather impartially and severely condemn them? It is the glory of the Christian religion that it is pure and undefiled (James 1:27); no doctrine is so holy (Psalm 19:…

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…

As to the priestly office, the mediate effects of Christ's sacerdotal acting that respect us are: (1) moral, as our justification and pardon of sin; and (2) real, in our sanctification and holiness — though the immediate actings of that office respect God alone, the virtue and e…

It is otherwise where this Revelation is received indeed in the soul by believing, Romansans 6:14. Our being under grace, under the power of the belief of forgiveness, is our great preservative from our being under the power of sin. faith of forgiveness is the principle of gospe…

And Paul chargs Timothie, to see that no man de[]pise his youth, 1. Tim, 4. 12. and to Titus he gives the like commandment, Tit. 2. 15. These things speake, and exhort and rebuke with all authoritie.

And this subjection is recommended to them by the example of holy women, to whose practice they ought to conform their own: So (1 Peter 3:6) holy women who trusted in God, being in subjection to their own husbands. And Saint Paul gives it in charge to Titus, to exhort wives that…

The key of this treasure may be lost or rusted: So that the treasure of that man after God's own heart, was locked up in great measure, for the space of nine months, till God sent the key by Nathan to open the sluice of repentance, and draw out the seeds of grace. 3. The treasur…

The Apostle was careful to cut off Occasion from those that desired Occasion. The same Apostle exhorts Titus, to maintain that strict Care and Watch over himself, that both his Preaching and Behaviour might be such as could not be condemned; that he that was of the contrary Part…

1. To enjoin silence. It is prescribed to servants (Titus 2:9) to please their masters well in all things, not answering again; for that must needs be displeasing: better say nothing than say that which is provoking. When our hearts are hot within us, it is good for us to keep s…

Let us therefore who profess relation to the eternal God, and dependence upon the blessed Jesus, and a regard to the Holy Scriptures, as we tender the reputation of our religion, walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing (Colossians 1:10). Let us order our conversation so in every…

Sadly consider, there can be nothing of the sanctifying Spirit in a soul that is under the dominion of this lust; for upon the first discovery of the Grace of God, the Soul renounces the Government of Sensuality. The Grace of God that brings Salvation, teaches men to live soberl…

Not that there are peculiar precepts and a peculiar law of Jesus Christ in the observance whereof we are justified, as the Socinians imagine; for the Gospel requires of us no more but to love the Lord our God with all our hearts and souls, which the law also required. But the Lo…

God has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son, in whom we have redemption through his blood (Colossians 1:13-14). And he redeems us from all iniquity (Titus 2:14), from our vain conversation (1 Peter 1:18-19), even from t…

It is so also of the exceeding love of the Son, of which the testimonies are innumerable. Titus 2:14: who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a peculiar people zealous of good works. This was his aim and design in giving himself…

Now how can these be shed abroad in our hearts? Not in themselves, but in a sense of them; in a spiritual apprehension of them; is shed abroad, the same word that is used concerning the Comforter being given us (Titus 2:6). God sheds him abundantly, or pours him on us; so He she…

A conscientious performance of those particular duties is one part of our walking worthy of the vocation with which we are called: and therefore the Apostle, for illustration and exemplification thereof, does reckon up sundry particulars, both in this and other Epistles (Ephesia…

Such an one the Apostle calls a widow indeed. Chastity of wedlock is that virtue whereby parties married, observing the lawful and honest use of marriage, keep their bodies from being defiled with strange flesh: thus the Apostle commands wives to be chaste (Titus 2:5). So as the…

4. To bring up children while they are young, with the like. These therefore ought he with a general consent to refer to her discretion: with limitation only of these two cautions (1 Timothy 5:14; Proverbs 31:21-22; verse 15; Genesis 16:6; 1 Timothy 5:10; Titus 2:4; 2 Kings 4:19…

3. Stoutness, when children answer their parents as if they were their equals: giving word for word. It does as ill become children to answer again, as servants (to whom the Apostle has expressly forbidden it, Titus 2:9). Both law and nature forbid children to be provoked to thi…

Now the proper food for young babes is breast-milk, which, by the Apostle's rule, the mother must give. 6. The same Apostle commands mothers to love their children (Titus 2:4). How can a mother better express her love to her young babe, than by letting it suck of her own breasts?

That is, you plainly show that you account me not your master, because in your heart there is no fear of me (Malachi 1:6). This fear will draw servants on, cheerfully to perform all duty: the more it abounds, the more desire and endeavor there will be to please, and to give good…