* \14r, 10- le the ox that treadeth out the corn, *and the labourer [1;þ1y aja, not becauſe he was not able to buy Wine, but religiouſly pl
TY is worthy of his reward b. asa piece of Diſcipline, to keep under the Fleſh, o But mix ſome * LEV. 19 4 This Verſe maketh it evident, That Maintenance is part of the| Wine with the Water, p To help thy digeſtion. q In regard of thy 13+ double honovr that is due to ſuch as labour in the Word and Do-| weakneſs and frequent infirmities.
24 Some mens ins are open beforehand, going
as are imployed in the Rule and Government of the Church, The before to juedment 7: and ſome men they follo Apoſtle had mace uſe of Deut, 25, 4. to the ſame purpole, 1 Cor. ter /. Jus . y Toilow af
r The Senſe of this Verſe depends upon the Term Xelav, Which we Tranſlate Fudgment, it being doubtful whether it is to be wn. derſtood of the Judgment of God, or the Fudgment of men in tc. clefiaſtical Judicatories. If we underſtand the words of the ſyig. ment of God, the Senſe is this : Same Men's ſins are puniſhed in this Life,before their Perſons come before God's Judgment Seat, Other; are more private, and concealed, the puniſhment of which folloys after, But this Interpretation muſt ſuppoſe Pau! here to run in. to another Argument, differing from what he had before ſpoken upon, which though it be not unuſual with the Apoſtle, yet there being no need we ſhould ſay he doth ſo in this place, T rather in. cline to think, That by Fudgment is in this place meant the Judge ment of the Church, as to Perſons fit to be truſted with any art of the Miniſtry of it ; ſome Men (ſaich the Apoſtle) are open, leud ſcandalous Perſons, whoſe erroneouſneſs, or ſottiſh Life, hath been manifeſt before they offer themſelyes to the Churches Judgment, to be put into the office of Elders or Deacons, concerning theſe thy way is plain, admit them not. / Others ditcover not the erroneoy{- neſs of their Principles, nor the impetuoulineſs of their Luſts, before they have obtained What they aim at, and are got into office; fac theſe they muft fall nnder thy Ju4gment, when they da dilcoyer what they are, and turn them out again,
25 Likewiſe the good works of ſome are manifeſt before hand ft, and they that are otherwiſe cannot be
hid «.
t In like manner ſome Men's holy Life and Converſation hath been ſo evident, that there needs little Judgment concerning th:m, u And for others under a due Government they cannot be long concealed, but by thy due managery of, and vigilance in thy office, they will ſoon be diſcovered by their publiſhing their erroneous Principles, and the breaking out of their Luſts into enormous adts, ſo as they will ſoon fall under thy cenſure, Or elſe thus. The good | works of ſome whole life hath not been ſo exemplary, but yet [ich as in Charity thou mayeſt judge them to have the root of the mats ter in them, (if thou beeſt not miſtaken) cannot be long hid, ſo as thou ſhalt ſoon ſee what they are, and accordingly know how to he- have thy (elf to them. Thus I ſhould chuſe rather to interpret this Text then concerning the Judgment of God, who ſometimes re- wards good works preſently, and always rewards them certainly, Either in this Life, or that which is to come.
CHAP. VI,
The duty of Servants, 1, 2, He deſcribes ſalſe Teachers, with 4 Command to avoid them, 9———5, He exhorts to Piety; andCon- rentarion, and ſhunning of Covetouſneſs, 6 10. 4d todivers other Chriſtian and Paſtoral Virtues ; and a charge ſo to do, 11--14, The Glory of God, 15, 16, His charge 10 the Rich, 179—19. And to Timothy, to maintain his ruſt, and avoid contentions : The Apoſtolical Benedifion, 20, 24.
count their own maſters worthy of all honour 6 :
blaſphemed c.
a Under the yoke of ſervitude, not being manumiſed, or made free. b Abundant Honour; let Chriſtian Servants give their Ma- ſters, inſtead of leſs, double the Honour which Pagan Servants do. c For the Credit of the Goſpel, and for the Honour of God ; that none may ſay, That Religion teacheth Servants any dilobedience,op breaketh the bands of Civil Relations: but on the contrary, that it obligeth Profeſſors to a more faithful, and full diſcharge of ſuch du- ties, Servants to be the beſt of Servants, &'c.
2 And they that have believing maſters, let them
not deſpiſe them: becauſe they are brethren d, but ra-
and exhort g. d Some © hriſtians were Servants to Fews or Pagans, who hoth came underithe Golpel Notion of Unbelievers ; as to theſe the Ap0- ſtle had given directions in verſe 1, Others ſerved Maſters and Mr f Sathan $ devices, foreſaw that the former would be under a temptation tO neglett, and deſpiie their Maſters or Mijir:jj-s, becauſe they were 1dolarers, or of a falſe Religion, Enemies to the Goſpel: and the latter under a temptation not to be ſo diligent and ſerviceable as they ſhould be, becauſe their Gove: nours in a Spiritual Senſe were their Equals, their Brethren and oitters : The Apoſtle here declares, That the Rule of the Goipel neither allows the one nor the other ; as to the former he had ſpoken before ; nor, faith he, Let thole that have Maſters or Miſtreſjes that are Chriſtians, deſpiſe them, by _ he means, not be equally obedicnt or icrviceabic to them, —_ j there is a ſpiritual Equality, or &<latiun betwixt them. # Put tne rather do them lervice, iuoxing upor; this a5 a farther obligation apon them, f Becauſe they are Bel.evers, ſuci as 10\E our = monLord, and are beloved of tim, an.l ſic! as all g90d Chritian
Chat Chaſtity which ſome would ave the Word here ſhgnifiz; but it
| ought to love, being partakers of the Gift of Gad, Cir i Fes, wy
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Chap. V],
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Et as many * ſervants as are under the yoke 4, * fpi.64
* that the name of God, and his doctrine be not * Tit:
ther do them ſervice e, becauſe they are || faithful andy or, i beloved, partakers of the benefit 7. Theſe things teachiewing
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Wrov. 27, & 2,&: 20, Mat 12, 22, Jam, 5,
| Or, bee [tduced,
L TIMO
1.0 Chap. VI.
the great benefic of Redemption through his Blood, g And he willeth Timothy to teach the Chriſtians at Fpheſus, that this was the Will of God, and accordingly to call upon them for an obedience to if,