der. t What afflitions I met with at Aztioch in Piſudia, Affs 11, I4, 45, 5c. u At ſcontum, Whither he went from Pifcdia ; of the AfMidtions he met with there allo. Read As 14. w The Ap. ſtle went from /conium to Lyſtra, Affs 14. 6. x There alſo he was perſecuted, As 14. 19, Now it ſeemeth that in all theſe Motions Timothy was in Paul's company, and a Follower of him, o as he waz a witneſs to all; which afſureth us, that though we firſt read of Tj. morthy, As 16, 2. when he was Circumciſed, yet Paul knew him before. » Yet God delivered Paul from all theſe, and that Timothy, being all that time in company with Pau}, knew z from whence the Apoſtle would have him take courage, exerciſe Patience under ſut- fering for ſuch Preaching, and ſuch living; being afſured that God would deliver him alſo, preaching the ſame Truth, and living the ſame holy Life, though he met with the ſame Troubles, Perſecuti. ons and Afflictions,
ſus ſhall ſuffer perſecution z.
the Men of the World, that though not every iadividual Perſon yet *tis the uſual lot of them who will keep a pure Faith and a good
their Perſons, or Reputation, or Eftates, Men may live prophanely, or may be morally honeft Men, and be ſafe enough, but if they will profeſs Faith in Chrift, or Love to him in keeping his Command- ments, they will be expoſed to troubles, The World will not indure Men to live in Peace, that will not live as they live, and believe as they believe.
13 But evil men and ſeducers ſhall wax worſe and
worſe a, deceiving and being deceived b.
4 Neither do thou expett that the times ſhould mend ; for Men that are given up to their Luſts, and 47:5, ſuch as go about to 4c- cefuve others, will grow worſe and worle, (as the World groweth older) both in their endeavours to deceive, and in their Maliceand | Hatred to thoſe that oppoſe them. b Deceiving others, and be- ing left by the juſt Judgment of God to deceive and ruine their own SOuls,
14 But continue thou in the things which thou haſt
whom thou haſt learned them e.
c In the Dodtrines relating to Faith: and the Precepts relating to thy Life as a Minifter, or asa Chriftian, 4 and haſt aſſented to ſtea- dily, hitherto believing them. e Remembring that thou haft lear- ned them of me, the Apoſtle of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt, which is the ſame as from Chriſt himſelf, .
15 And that from a child f thou haſt known the holy ſcriptures g, which are able to make thee wiſe unto Salvation þ, through faith which is in Chriſt Je-
ſus 2.
f Erom thy Infancy, by the inſtruftion of thy Mother Eunice, and thy Grandmother Low, cbap. 1. 5. g Thou haſt had a Notion of the Writings of Moſes ard the Prophets, the Holy Scriptures of the Old Teftament (for at this time no others were written,) þ Which holy Scriptures (without the help of the writings of Plaro £0 Dythego- r&s, Or any other Pagan Philoſophers) have in them a ſufnciency © Dodrine to make thee or any other, wiſe@nough to get to Heaven. # But not without Faith in Chriſt Jeſus, receiving him as thy and their Saviour; beſides a Faith afſenting and agreeing to thoſe Holy Writings, as the Revelation of the Divine Will.
16 All ſcripture is given by inſpiration of Cod {, and 7s profitable for doctrine 1, for reproof mz, tor cor- rection #, for inſtruction in righteouſneſs 9.
preters, that they were two Brethren, the chief of Pharaob's Magi- Clans, who oppoſed Moſes in the Miracles he wronght, Exod. 7. 1. | whoſe Names might be known in Pau?'s time by Tradition, or the | publick Writings of the Fews, e So will corrupt Teachers under
the Goſpel rehft the Truth of the Goſpel publiſhed by Chriſt's ,
Minitters. f Men whoſe hearts are corrupted with ſordid Lufts, i E e&d32uuo, of nv ſound Judgment, as to the Dorine of Faith ; or, '
t Scripture ſignifies no more than writing, Some therefore tra» ſlate this Text thus, AU Scripture which is inſpired of God, not all Writings,but all the Books of the Old Teſtament 13 $84Tv2v5rs Chis is expounded by Peter, 2 Pet. 1. 20, 21. For the Propkcy came nor in old time by the wil: of Man ; but holy ven of God [paK&, as they were moved by the H:iy Ghoſt, 1 And it is profitable to int
I uct us ot . Pq . : "Iv , D 0 5; ls in all Propoſutions of 1 ruth, which we need belicre in order to 54
yatio.
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ons I indured x ; but * out of them all the Lord deli-v
[ { What Proſecutions for the Preaching of the Goſpel I was yn.
12 Yea, and * all that will live godly in Chriſt Je. * 2... I9
z Such is the diſpoſal of Divine Providence, ſuch the Malice of nn ws
1 The!, 2. Conſcience, to ſuffer Perſecution in ſome kind or other ; either in?
learned c, and haſt been aſſured of d, knowing * of *c1;9.2.
(
IL Bl Chap. IV. II.
vation, m Yas9/9ey, to convince us either of any Truth, that we may believe it without any heſitation, or of any fin that we may be humbled for it, without any extenuation, » For Reproof, or Cor- reftion, or Reformation ; to reprove us in what we are to be re- proved, tocorett us in any Error, to ſhew us the way to bring us to rights, and to reform us. 0 To inftrut us in the true righteouſnels in which we muſt appear before God ; for in it the Kighreouſneſs of God is revealed from Faith to Fatth, Rom, 1. 17,
NO 17 That the man of God may be perfect p,|| through-
ly furniſhed unto all good works q.
p That both Miniſters, and all godly Men may he as perfett as they can be in the ſtate of Mortality, fitted for the Duties of their ſeveral Callings and Places, q And be prepared to every work which is good, acceptable and well-pleafing unto God, whether it be a work of Piety, or Juſtice and Charity. The Scripture as to all, 15 ſo ful] a Diretion, that Chriftians need not go down to the Philz- ftines to whet their Tools, nor be beholden to unwritten Traditions, or to the Writings of Pagan Philoſophers, for direQions what to do, how to Worſhip God, or manage any part of their Converſation, either as to their general Calling, or as to their particular Relati- ONs,
Or, fer” --b:4.
CHAP. IV.
He, with great earneſtneſs, exhorts Tinmihy to confider and diſcharge|