3 He is an ill Teacher of others who teacheth them no own Example, as well as by his Dottrine ; for that Ph ordinarily little valued in his Preſcriptions to his Pa they know to be in the ſame danger, andfick of the ſame Diſcai: and yet refuſeth himſelf to uſe -what he preſcribeth others, The Parients will furely ſay to him, Phycifian heal thy ſelf, The Apo a Pattern of vainly perſuade other;
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Holineſs, and thoſe Minifters who are not ſo, to be ſuch, People (let Miniſters ſay what they will) will heljege little danger to be in thoſe courſes in which their Leader himſe1; walks, x Preaching not rotten, but ſound Dorine ; 4 and doings ir with Authority and Gravity, and 6 ſincerity ; the word is "42 Reronay mcorruprtibility, It is not read in many Copies, not tranſlated by e denle with eJapSreley, y our Tranſlation interpreted uncorry-
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many Interpreters, and much of the ſame Senſe wi which is the firſt Word b neſs.
8 Sound ſpeech that cannot be condemned c, * that+7;.. he that is of the contrary part may be aſhamed 9, hay. 1, ' ing no evil thing to ſay of you e. thetay
Paul (as yet) ſeemeth to be direRing Titus as a Miniſter, ang "%**ih the reſt of the Minifters in Crete, how ro behave themlſelyes in the Miniftry, for the laſt word being plural [ou] ſignificth either the Miniſtry, or elſe is put for thee 5 he would have Titus not on| preach ſound Dottrine, not corrupt, and do it gravely, but ath preach c profitable Dofrine, tending to make the Souls of others ſound and healthy ; unleſs perhaps by a&9y, be here meant his tile and Phraſe, which he would have ſuch as none could juftly con- demn. What was ſaid of Caſar's Wife, that ſhe ought not only to be chaft, but ſo to behave her ſelf, as not to be ſuſpetted otheriſe, is applicable to Miniſters ; their DoQrine, and Phraſe, uſed in their Miniſtry, ought not only to be ſound and grave, but ſach as none ould judge or cenſure for other, d That the Adverſaries of the truth may be aſhamed of their aſperſing them, or it, eand niay have no evil thing to charge them with.
9 Exhort * ſervants be obedient unto
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maſters f, and to pleaſe them well in all || not anſwering again h.
F The Apoſtle direð as to Servants of all ſorts, whether bond! Or, or free (otherwiſe than that by Covenant they have obliged them- gina ſelves to Men) he willeth they ſhould be obedient to the commands of thoſe who were their Legal Mafters,neither thinking themſelves free from them by their Chriſtianity, if their Maſters were Pagans, nor tha: they had a greater liberty to be ſaucy with them, or le6 0: bedient to them, becauſe they were Chriſtians, and upon that ac- count brethren, x 7im. 6, 2, g That is, in all civil things wherein alone they were Servants. þ Not ſaucily replying when they were reproved, nor contraditting the commands of their Mafters,
10 Not purloining ?, but ſhewing all good fidelity |, that they may adorn the doQrine of God our Saviour in all things I. |
J NoogurQouincs, The Word fignifieth raking ſomething away from others r0 our own uſe, and it ſignifies properly the taking not the whole, but a part of a thing, As 5. 2, 3. it is uſed to (ignifie the fin of Ananias and Sapphira, who kept back part of what they ſol their Eftate for. & tioneſty, and Truth, and Diligence, / That they may not be a ſcandal, or reproach to the Goſpel, of which they make a profeſſion, but may be an ornament to it in all things, «s remembring that it is the Dofrine of God our great Treſerver, and of Jeftis Chriſt our bleſſed Saviour, :
11 For.the * grace of God || that bringeth ſalvatt- *chy; on #1, hath appeared to all men . [ 0, ;
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12 Teaching us * that denying ungodlineſs », abd yy,
worldly luſts p, we ſhould live ſoberly q, righreoutly 7, chap, 2, and godlily s in this preſent world e. : b-- o All Atheiſm or falſe Religion, living without regard *0 5 Or, pity,
Divine Being, or according to our own erroneous and fupc2 ft1tious Conceits and opinions of it. p And ſich inclinations, and vnlawful defires, and luftings after ſecular things as are commonly fon 1n Men of the World, q We ſhould live, with reſpe& to our {elves :n a juſt Government of our affefions and Palfions, r And with rc
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Gal. 5. 5. Col. 1. 5. w And in order thereunto, lookmg for the \ coming of the great God, and our Saviour Teſus C briſt, to the laft Judgment. The {ame Perſon is here meant by the great God, and our Saviour Jeſus Chriſt, 1. It is he whom God hath appointed to be the Judge of the Quick and Dead, 2. *Emgayerz, by us tranſla- 1 ted app2aring, is attributed only to the Second Perſon in the Bleſſed Trinity, 2 thefſ. 2. 8. 1 Tim, 6. 14. 2 Tim, 4. 1, 8. from this Text the Divine Nature of. Chriſt is irrefragably concluded, He ts
"Or not only called God, but wzzas ©e65, the Great God, which cannot Icreet, be underſtood of a male God, ; d +Gal.t.z. 24 * Whogave himfelf for us x, that he might re- «2.29. deem us from all iniquity y, and purifie unto himſelf x£x04.15-* 4 peculiar people z, * zealous of good works 4. Ll; | 15.X19-5* x Which great God and Saviour Jeſus Chriſt, was not only ſent ITin, *:pt-10-2 and given by the Father, Fohn 3. 16. but freely gave up-himſelt to
tt, be incarnate, and todie for us, a way, in our ftead to dye. 4 That by that price he might purchale >alvation for us; delivering