Paul's charge to Timothy.

DOMINI 66.

TITUS, I.

Anno DOMINI 66.

To beware of Alexander. Anno in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. | day: and not to me only, but unto all 13 4 But evil men and seducers shall them also that love his appearing. wax worse and worse, deceiving, and 11. Tim being deceived.

d 2 Thes. 2.

1. ch. 2. 16. e ch. 1. 13.

& 2.2.

#2 Pet. 1. 20, 21.

14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;

15 And that from a child thou hast

John 5.39. known the holy scriptures, which are
able to make thee wise unto salvation
through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All scripture is given by inspiration
Rom. 154. of God, "and is profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction, for instruction
in righteousness:

i 1 Tim. 6.

11.

17 That the man of God may be per-
throughly furnished unto all good

Or, perfect- fect, works.

ed.

k ch. 2. 21.

9 Do thy diligence to come shortly

unto me:

Col. 4. 15

10 For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is 1 John 2. departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

15.

11 Only Luke is with me. Take See ch. 1. "Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry. 12 And Tychicus have I sent

Ephesus.

to

Philem. 24. u Acts 12.

25 & 15.37.

Col. 4. 10.

x Acts 20. 4.

Col. 4. 7.

|
13 The cloke that I left at Troas with Eph. 6. 12.
Carpus, when thou comest, bring with Tit. 3. 12.
thee, and the books, but especially the
parchments.

14' Alexander the coppersmith did me
much evil: the Lord reward him accord-
ing to his works:

15 Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood || our words.

1 Tim. 1. 20. z 2 Sam. 3.

y Acts 19.33.

39. Ps. 28. 4. Rev. 18.6.

Or, our preachings,

16 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: pray God that it may not be laid their charge.

to

b Acts 7. 60.

17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, & and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of

the lion.

Eph. 3 8.

e Ps. 22. 21.

2

Pet. 2. 9.

f Ps. 121. 7.

22 "The Lord Jesus Christ be with Philem. 25. thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.

The second epistle unto Timotheus,
ordained the first bishop of the church
of the Ephesians, was written from Gr. Cesar
Rome, when Paul was brought be-
fore+Nero the second time.

Nero, or, the emperor Nero.

The qualification of ministers.

Anno DOMINI

TITUS.

Aso DOMINI

Of the duty of servants, ár. committed unto me according to the | home, good, obedient to their own hus65. commandment of God our Saviour; bands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

& 2.3. & 4.10.

bi Tim. 1. 1. 4 To Titus, mine own son after 'the 12 Cor.213. common faith: "Grace, mercy, and 6, 16, 23. & peace, from God the Father and the 12. 18. Gal. Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.

& 7. 13. & K.

2.3

k 1 Tim. 1. 2.

I Rom. 1. 12. 2 Cor. 4. 13. 2 Pet. 1. 1,

5 For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest "set in order the in Eph. things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed

Col. 1. 2.

1 Tim. 1. 2.

2 Tim. 1. 2. thee:

n 1 Cor. 11. 34

1 Or, left undone.

Acts 14-23

2 Tim. 2. 2. p 1 Tim. 3. 2, &c.

41 Tim.3.12.

r1 Tim. 3. 4, 12.

Matt. 24. 45. 1 Cor. 4. 1, 2.

t Lev. 10. 9.

Tim. 3. 3

8. Eph. 5.18. u 1 Tim. 3.

5. 2.

3.8. Pet. Tim.3.

Or, good things. y 2 Thes. 2. 15. 2 Tim.

1. 13.

6 If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, 'having faithful children, not accused of riot, or unruly.

7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of Ġod; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

u

y

2

8 But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; 9 Holding fast the faithful word || as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially 6.34 Tim. they of the circumcision:

z 1 Tim. 1.

15. & 4. 9. &

2.2.

1 Or, in
teaching.
a 1 Tim. I.
10. & 6. 3.

1 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, 'for filthy

2 Tim. 4-3 lucre's sake.

ch. 2. 1.

b 1 Tim. 1. 6.

e Rom.16.18.

12 One of themselves, even a prophet Acts 151. of their own, said, The Cretians are alway 14 2 Tim. liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

e Matt. 23.

3.6.

1 Tim. 6. 5. 13 This witness is true.

h Wherefore

Acts 17.28 rebuke them sharply, that they may be

h 2 Cor. 13.

10. 2 Tim.

i sound in the faith;

14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn

2 Tim. 44 from the truth.

1 Isai. 29. 13.

Matt. 15.9.

Col. 2. 22.

15 Unto the pure all things are pure: m Luke 11. but "unto them that are defiled and un

39, 40, 41.

Rom. 14. 14, believing is nothing pure; but even their 12. & 10. 23, mind and conscience is defiled.

20. 1 Cor. 6.

25.

1 Tim.

4.3, 4.

o 2 Tim. 3.

16 They profess that they know God;

Rom.14.23. but in works they deny him, being abo5. Jude 4 minable, and disobedient, and unto every Tim. 3.8. good work || reprobate.

p Rom. 1. 28.

Or, roid of judgment.

a 1 Tim. 1.

10. & 6. 3.

2 Tim. 1. 13. ch. 1.9.

2 That the aged men be || sober, grave, Or, vigi temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

lant.

b ch. 1. 13.

c1 Tim. 2.

9, 10. & 3. 11.

3 The aged women likewise, that they 1Pet. 3.3.4. be in behaviour as becometh || holiness, not false accusers, not given to much Wine, teachers of good things;

Or, holy

Women.

Or, make

bates, 2 Tim. 3. 3.

Or, wise.

14.

4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husTim. 5. bands, to love their children,

5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at

8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary 12 3 part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

9 Exhort" servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well "in all things; not answering again;

10 Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

11 For the grace of God || that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

PUT them in mind to be subject to
principalities and powers, to obey ma-
gistrates, "to be ready to every good work,
2 To speak evil of no man, to be no
brawlers, but gentle, shewing all 'meek-ices

ness unto all men.

3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serv- k ch.1 (3. ing divers lusts and pleasures, living in 19 malice and envy, hateful, and hating one & Ram 3 another.

4 But after that the kindness and F I love of God our Saviour toward man s appeared,

5Not by works of righteousness which a we have done, but according to his mercy in Exts he saved us, by the washing of regenera-** tion, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

6

m Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

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7 "That being justified by his grace, ch. 1 ik

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a Numb. 12. 6, 8.

b Deut. 4

THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE
HEBREWS.

CHAP. I.

1 Christ in these last times coming to us from
the Father, 4 is preferred above the angels,
both in person and office.

which we have heard, lest at any time we
should let them slip.

DOX

+ Gr.

2 For if the word spoken by angel: was stedfast, and every transgression a

GOD, who at sundry times and in and disobedience received a just recom

divers manners spake in time past Eph. unto the fathers by the prophets,

1. 10.

c John 1. 17. & 15. 15. ch.

2.3.

d Ps. 2. 8. Matt. 21. 38. & 28. 18. John 3- 35Rom. 8. 17.

e John 3.

Col. 1. 16.

2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

3 Who being the brightness of his 1 Cor.8&glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of John 1.14 his power, when he had by himself 2 Cor. 44 purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

(Wisd. 7. 26.

& 14.9.

Col. 1. 15.
g John 1.4.
Col. 1. 17.
Rev. 4. 11.

h ch. 7. 27.
&9. 12, 14

16.

i Pa. 110. 1. Eph. 1. 20. el. 8. 1. &

2. 1 Pet. 3. 22.

4 Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, 'Thou art my Son, this day have 10. 12 & 12 I begotten thee? And again, "I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? 6 || And again, when he bringeth in "the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God wor

8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

9 Thou hast loved righteousness, and Gr. to hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy Ps. 45.6, 7. God, hath anointed thee with the oil of +Gr. right gladness above thy fellows. straightness. 10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning Isai. 61. 1. hast laid the foundation of the earth; and 10. 38. the heavens are the works of thine hands: 11 They shall perish; but thou reIsai. 344. mainest and they all shall wax old as Matt. 24. 35. doth a garment;

10 For it became him, "for whom are 5.6 all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation "perfect through sufferings.

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11 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: 1 cha k for which cause he is not ashamed to y call them brethren,

12 Saying, "I will declare thy name 17. Rum & unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.

13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the c children which God hath given me.

d

14 Forasmuch then as the children are 1. 14 partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; 'that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime sub- of age ject to bondage.

16 For verily the took not on him d

Christ more worthy than Moses.

Anno DOMINI 64.

& 5. 1, 2.

CHAP. III. IV. The Christians rest attained by faith.

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the nature of angels; but he took on him | ned,' whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
the seed of Abraham.
18 And 'to whom sware he that they 64.
should not enter into his rest, but to
them that believed not?

17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him
h Phil. 2. 7. to be made like unto his brethren, that
ich. 4. 15. he might be 'a merciful and faithful high
priest in things pertaining to God, to make
reconciliation for the sins of the people.
18 *For in that he himself hath suf-1
fered being tempted, he is able to succour
them that are tempted.

kịch. 4. 15. 16. & 5.2.& 7.25.

a Rom. 1.7. 1 Cor. 1. 2.

Eph. 4. 1. Phil. 3. 14. 2 Thess. 1. 11. 2 Tim. 1. 9. 2 Pet. 1. 10.

́HEREFORE, holy brethren, par

W takers of the heavenly calling,

consider the Apostle and High Priest of
our profession, Christ Jesus;

19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

CHAP. IV.

r Num. 14/

22, 29, &c.
& 26.65. P's.
1 Cor. 10. 5.
Jude 5.

106. 26.

s Num. 14. 30. Deut. 1. 34, 35.

The rest of Christians is attained by faith. t ch.4.6.
12 The power of God's word. 14 By our
high priest Jesus the Son of God, subject to
infirmities, but not sin, 16 we must and
may go boldly to the throne of grace.

LE

ET us therefore fear, lest, a pro- a ch. 12. 15. mise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

word of

2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word + Gr. the preached did not profit them, not being 2 Who was faithful to him that tap-mixed with faith in them that heard it. Rom. 15 pointed him, as also Moses was faithful

3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.

4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.

5'And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

6 But Christ as 'a son over his own Deut. 3. house; whose house are we, 1if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

15 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, "if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

15 While it is said, 'To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

16 For some, when they had heard, Deut. 1. did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

34, 36, 38.

hearing.

Or, because they were not united by faith to.

b

4 For he spake in a certain place of
the seventh day on this wise, And God &
did rest the seventh day from all his works.
5 And in this place again, If they shall
enter into my rest.

6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that
some must enter therein, and they to
whom it was first preached entered not
in because of unbelief:

7 (Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, 'To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.

ch. 3. 14. Ps. 95. 11.

ch. 3. 11.

9 There remaineth therefore a || rest Or, keep to the people of God.

10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.)

ing of a sab

bath.

12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any *two- Jer. 23. 29. edged sword, piercing even to the dividing 5.1 P. 1. asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is 'a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

17 But with whom was he grieved forty
15 For we have not an high priest h
years? was it not with them that had sin-which cannot be touched with the feeling