_ \. , novr and power everlaſting. Amen wy ; 12 yy ” cOf himlelf; onr Souls, and Angels are immortai from the gift 2©-* of Gol. cr immorta/ity ſignifies here, the ſame with Eternity Or Jamuability. d Continuallv incompaſſed with a Glory that is un- ſrealable, x Foha 1.5. EC To which no man can in this Life come nigh, f Nor did Moſes or Stephen, or any other, ever ſee his Glory ſo as to comprehend ir, or in the full perfe&tion of it, g Nor can the Sons of Men ſee him with their bodily eyes, or ſo as to coMPTe- hend him in his perfection ; though ſome have with their bodily _ eyes ſeen his back Parts,and Appearances,and with their Souls have, through his Grace, been enabled ſpiritually to behold him, h To which immortal, glorious, inviſible God belongs, and let there for
evcr be given, Honour and Power.
17 Charge them that are rich in this world z, that |
* 10? 3?. they be not high minded &, *nor truſt in Þ uncertain a) 31 KN nh \ * I . . -5+*'% riches 1, but in the living God m, who giveth us richly
62. 10+ Mark 10, all things to enjoy 2 © | 2.4. 7 Thoſe that arerich in Grace, and the good Things of another + Gr. rhe Life, need not this Charge; but there are divers at Epheſus, who uncertainty have great Eſtates in Goods, Or Houſes, or Lands, and but poor in gracious Habits, charge them, & That their Riches do not lift them up into an high Conceit or Opinion of themſelves, which \Vorldly Riches often do. 7 And that they repoſe no confidence in them, making them their ſtrong City, Prov. 10. 15. As if they could ſecure them from evil, or make them happy. m But let them re- pole their truſt in God, who hath Life in himſelf, giveth Life unto all other things, and liveth for ever. # And is he who gives us all
we have, though it be bought with our penny,
of riches,
*Luke 12. __ > «god works, ready to diſtribute q, || willing to com- [| Or,/vc7.4- Municate 7. |
ble, o That is to others, as they have opportunity. p Be plentiful in
Alms-deeds, or more generally in all good Works of Piety or Cha-
1). TIMOTHY.
rity. q That they be not backward to diſtribute that of which God hath made them Stewards, to thoſe that want. » But give freely and without grudging, according to their Maſters order, as he- cometh thoſe who are but Stewards as to the Riches which they have
19 Laying up in ſtore for themſelves a good foun-
on eternal life t.
s Riches in themſelves are but for the preſent, but there j; an uſe may be made of them for the time to come, if we imploy them for the better inabling us to do what God hath commanded ys to do Matth, 6. 20, Luke 12. 33. thoſe Atts of Obedience to the Com- mand of God for the uſe of our Eftates, though they can merit no- thing, (for what proportion can there be betwixt a few Shillings
time to come, t That God will give us an Eternal Happineſ,not as
| and Eternal Life *) yet will be a good ground for us to hope for the
| a Reward of Debt but of Free Grace.
20 O Timothy, * keep that which is committed to
and oppoſitions of ſcience falſly ſo called x.
Notion of Preaching, which in thy diſcharge of that Work, are the beſt of them but profane Bablings. x Avoid alſo all idle Specula- tions and Diſputations, no way ſerving to the end of Preaching, and falſly called Science,
the faith y. Grace be with thee z. Amen.
13 That they do good o, that * they be rich in| » Which kind of Science, ſome pretending and boaſting of, Rudy. '* | Ing to ſhew themſelves learned and ſubtil en, they have been led
| Into Errours in Chriſtianity,apoſtatizing from the Dottrine of Faith, 2; Vt, The Grace, Mercy, and Peace from God our Father and Jeſus Chriſt our Lord, mentioned 2 Tim, 1, verſe 2,
hee
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ARGUMENT T.
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The
O THY.
His ſecond Epiſtle to Timothy was moſt certainly wrote from Rome,wheyn Paul was 4 Priſoner there,2 Timothy 1. $. and 4s moſt judge 4
very little while before his Death, (for he tells us, Chapter, 4. 7, 8. rbat he was ready to be offered, be had finiſhed his courle, the
time of his departue was at hand,) He 7s ſaid to have died Anno Chriſti 68. and in the Five and thirtieth after his Converſion, ſo this Epi.
file was wrote about Sixteen years after the writing of the former, The Scope of it is much the ſame as of the former, To exhort and encourage
him to faithfulneſs in his Miniſtry, 10 keep ſtedfaſt in the Faith, to be giligent in his work. To avoid all ſtrifes of words, perverſe diſputivps, &,
He aljo in it a4moniſheth him, that the latter times were like to be yet more dangerous, and therefore adviſeth him 10 prepare for Hardſhp and Perſecuticns, propounding his own example t0 him, both as to Dodtrine, and as to Suſjering,
CHAP. I,
The uſual ſ:lutation, and rhanksgiving, and love to him, 1 4 for his goalineſs from his infancy by his grandmother and mother, 5, He exhorts him 16 (tir up his gifts, ard not be afraid or aſhamed of the Goſp-1, and ſuffering for it, 6— 8. The excellency of our Calling and Dotrine, of which himſelf was a Preacher, and for it be ſuffer- ed, 12, and which was comminted 10 Timothy 10 be held faſt by him in its Purity, 12,14. All in Aſia had forſaken the Apoſtle but only Onefipherus, for whom he prays, 15 ——— 18,
Aul an Apoſtle of Jeſus Chriſt, by the will of God a, according to the promiſe of life b, which iS in Chriſt Jeſus c.
a See the Notes on 1 Tin, 1,1, b Tt is much the ſame with Rom, 1,1,2. According to the Goſpel, which be had promiſed before by his Prophets. Theſe words either ſignifie the end of his Apoſileſhip, fo declare the Goſpel in which is the Promiſe of Life,or the Matter of his Preaching, c Which Eternal Life was promiſed of old, but is _ to be had but in Chritit Jeſus, and in him is the Promiſe ful-
lled.
2 To Timothy my dearly beloved Son d, Grace, mercy, and peace, irom God the Father, and Jeſus Chriſt our Lotd e.
d See the Notes on 1 Tm. 1. 2. there he calls him his own Son, teſtifying his relation, here his beloved Son, to teſtifice his affeion to him. The Salutation is the ſame with that 1 7im. 1. 2, vide the Notes there,
Sx * 1 thank God * whom I ſerve from my fore-fa- Em. 2.16, cBCrS with pure conſcience f, that * without ceaſing, *A&.22.3:1 have remembrance of thee in my prayers, night and & 23-1. day g.