2 Timothy 1

2 Timothy 1:1-18

:I ACcording to] that is to say, Apostle of the Gospell; whose subject is not a word of plaine command or narration, as the Law is, but of a promise of grace and everlasting life, SeeTit.〈◊〉. 1 Which is,] the whole foundation of which is Christ; and which from him derives upon his members by meanes of faith.

2 Timothy 1:3

From my] following the faith and religion, all the true ancient Jewes, who worshipped the onely true God, in hope of the promised Messias, See Acts 24:14.

2 Timothy 1:4

Thy teares] shed either through an inward fee¦ling and motion of piety, love of God, zeale, and sorrow for sin. Or, through sorrow for Pauls departure.

2 Timothy 1:6

Wherefore] namely, seeing thou hast the gift of faith, which is the root of every good worke, and without which all exhortations are to no purpose; and likewise because by reason of this great gift, thou art so much the more bound to God. I doe admonish thee to excite, increase, and foment this light, and this fire of the gift of the holy Ghost, and especially of those gifts which have a relation to the holy ministery, See 1 Thessalonians 5:19. 1 Timothy 4:14. By the putting] for God did joyn his grace and power to his sacred Ceremony which was appointed by Christ, & did then likewise begin the miraculous gifts of his Spirit, Act. 8. 17. & 19. 6 Of my hands] it should seem that by the imposition of St Pauls hands, Timothy received the miraculous gifts; and by the imposition of the Colledge of Elders hands, 1 Timothy 4:14. he was installed in the ministery, with a publique blessing.

2 Timothy 1:7

For God] the meaning is, kindle up Gods gift, and doe not let it goe out, nor be smothered up through bodily feare. For such a kinde of feare is no wife the worke of Gods Spirit, but is quite contrary to it. Which is here said, because that peradventure the Churches afflictions, and especially St Pauls had terrified and affrighted Timothy. Of love] namely, a holy love of God, and of Christ, with which the beleever being enflamed, doth freely suffer all manner of adversities Of a sound mind] by which the holy Ghost restoreth the troubled soule to tranquillity, and keepes away such turbulent passions as feare it. Others of moderation, wisedome, and of a sound understanding.

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The testimonie] of the Gospel, or of the free profession and preaching thereof Be thou partaker] dispose thy selfe to beare couragiously thy part of the crosse, which is joyned to the profession of the Gospell. Or professe them publiquely, that in the Gos¦pels cause, for which I suffer, thou hast all things common with me According to] being upheld by the strength of his Spirit: or making use of his power therein and not trusting in thine own strength, nor in worldly means:

2 Timothy 1:9

An holy] by a Divine, and Heavenly, and not by a humane calling: or by which we are sanctified Given us] which hath been used towards us in our everlasting election In Christ]See upon Ephesians 1:4.

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Abolished] hath perfectly freed his from eternall death, so that for them there is no more death; he having abolished the cause thereof, which is sinne: and also taken away from corporall death the sting of curse; and the power of keeping his members and beleevers perpetually under it, 1 Corinthians 15:54-55. Through the Gospel] seeing that in it is set down not onely the knowledge of this spirituall life: but also the fruition of it by faith.

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That which I have committed] that is to say, the right to the crowne of eternal life is already mine, through his grace, though I am not yet possessed of it; but he himselfe keepes it safe for me, to give it me at his appointed time, 2 Timothy 4:8. Or, he meanes, according to the Hebrew phrase the soule, departing out of the body, Psal. 31. 5. Against that day] or untill that day, namely, untill Christs comming to judgment.

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The forme] namely, the doctrine which I leave as a patterne, or example, for all men to imitate, as wel in the substance, as in the manner of teaching it, See Rom. 2 20. & 6. 17. Sound] See 1 Timothy 6:3. In faith] by these words he signifieth either the two principal parts of Christian doctrine. Or, the two vertues by which the Apostle had taught it, as 1 Timothy 1:14. or by which Timothy was to keepe it Which is] namely, the spiritual faith and love, which Christ teacheth, and frameth in all the true members of his body.

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By the holy Ghost] namely, by his power and grace, which thou oughtest carefully to employ to this effect.

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Which are in] namely, the Christians of Asia, who until that time had kept company with Paul, See a Tim. 4. 10, 16.

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Of the Lord] namely, of him himselfe, or of the Lord, for Jesus Christ his sake Unto me] or generally to the whole Church.