A commentarie vpon the Epistle of S. Paul written to Titus. Preached in Cambridge by Thomas Taylor, and now published for the further vse of the Church of God. With three short tables in the end for the easier finding of 1. doctrines, 2. obseruations, 3. questions contained in the same

A SHORT VIEWE OF SVCH Doctrines as are enlarged with their reasons and vses.

• A Man may sometimes lawfully change his name.Pag. 4.
• Such names are to be giuen to children as may put them in minde of some good du∣tie.Pag. 4
• The name of a seruant of God is full of ho∣nour.Pag. 6
• The chiefe offices in the Church are for the service of it.Pag. 10
• God hath some who are elect, and other are not.Pag. 11
• The elect haue a faith by themselues.Pag. 13
• The faith of the elect is ordinarily wrought by the ministerie of the word.Pag. 16
• The doctrine of the Gospell is truth it selfe.Pag. 18
• The knowledge of the truth is the ground of faith.Pag. 19
• The truth intertained in truth frameth the heart vnto godlinessePag. 21
• The ende of the ministerie is to drawe vp mens mindes from earth to heauen.Pag. 24
• True faith neuer goeth alone, but as a Queene attended with many other gra∣ces, especially with hope.Pag. 27
• Life eternall is the beleeuers by free pro∣mise.Pag. 30
• God is truth itselfe and cannot lie.Pag. 33
• The free loue of God appeareth, in that whatsoeuer he doth for his elect in time, the same he decreeth before all time.Pag. 39
• The doctrine of saluation is more clearely manifest then in former times.Pag. 43
• The Lord effecteth all his purposes and pro∣mises in due season.Pag. 44
• Saluation is to be sought for in the preach∣ing of the word.Pag. 48
• The office of preaching is an office of trust.Pag. 52
• Whosoeuer entreth into the ministerie, must finde himselfe pressed by the calling and commandement of God.Pag. 53
• Ministers may be more or lesse in the com∣mendation of their calling, as the disposi∣tion and necessitie of their people re∣quire.Pag. 55
• Gods calling to grace is free and power∣full.Pag. 56
• Ministers ought to be spirituall fathers in begetting children to God.Pag. 58
• Faith is one and the same in all Gods e∣lect.Pag. 62
• Euerie man must be carefull, 1. whome, 2. to what, 3. how farre he commendeth an other.Pag. 65
• All are not naturall sonnes that are so ac∣counted.

• ... 66
• The free and euerlasting grace of God, is the foundation of all blessings spirituall and temporall.Pag. 69
• True peace is the fruit of Gods grace and mercie.Pag. 71
• Whosoeuer is called to labour in the Church must by all his care further the worke of the Lord.Pag. 75
• He that would Christianly and comfortably carrie himselfe through his calling, must euer haue the ende of it in his eie.Pag. 76
• Churches must not be condemned as no Churches for want of some lawes or go∣uerment, if they ioyne in the profession of the truth.Pag. 80
• No Church is hastely brought to perfecti∣on.Pag. 81
• There is continuall bending of good ordi∣nances euen in the best estate of the Church.Pag. 83
• Such an absolute necessitie of a setled mini∣sterie there is where a Church is planted, that without it religion cannot possibly thriue or continue.Pag. 86
• The ordering and gouerning of the Church is not left arbitrarie, no not to an Evan∣gelist, but Apostolicall direction must guide him.Pag. 89
• How able soeuer a man is to teach, if he be of a scandalous life, he is vnfit to be cho∣sen a Minister.Pag. 92
• Marriage of Ministers is a lawfull and holy ordinance of God.Pag. 97
• Polygamie was euer blameworthy euen in the best.Pag. 103
• He that would reforme others abroad must begin at home.Pag. 110
• To haue the blessing of gracious children thou must beginne at religion.Pag. 111
• The carriage of a mans children is a great credit or disgrace to his profession: espe∣cially of the Minister.Pag. 113
• Riot is an hatefull vice to be auoided.Pag. 114
• Children ought to be obedient to their pa∣rents.Pag. 117
• Lewdnesse of children is often from want of gouernment in parents.Pag. 118
• Euery Minister ought to keepe the Lords watch ouer his flocke.Pag. 121
• A Bishop ouer others must first watch o∣uer himselfe.Pag. 123
• Euery Minister beeing Gods steward must haue a fit calling, and properties answe∣rable to that office.Pag. 124
• The nearer a man is to God in place, the more carefull must he be of his carri∣age.Pag. 129
• Frowardnesse is euery where of euill report, but in a Minister intollerable.Pag. 131
• Hastinesse to anger a foule blot in a Mini∣ster.Pag. 134
• To be giuen to wine odious in all, especially in a Minister.Pag. 140
• A Minister of all men may not be a quarel∣ler, or a man of a word and a blow.Pag. 145
• Couetousnesse in a Minister is a most base sinne.Pag. 148
• There is much filthy lucre in the world, which euery Christian must abhorre.Pag. 152
• The verie phrase of Scripture speaking of riches should pull our hearts from them.Pag. 155
• The Minister for the honour of his place, must not only be free from common vices, but also shine in positiue vertues.Pag. 159
• The poorest minister must and may be har∣borous.Pag. 163
• Wisedome most necessarie to a minister. Why.Pag. 172
• Righteous dealing, a shining ornament in a minister.Pag. 175
• ...

• Ministers must be arraied with roabes of holinesse.Pag. 176
• A temperate and equall course necessarie to a minister.Pag. 179
• The word of God is most certaine and in∣fallible.Pag. 182
• The word is euery way fitted for the in∣struction of the faithfull.Pag. 188
• Euery man ought to be a learner of holy do∣ctrine.Pag. 194
• The men of God in speaking of the word haue euer set some marke of excellencie vpon it.Pag. 196
• Ministers must set an edge on their doctrine by exhortation.Pag. 197
• Exhortation is then powerfull when it is grounded on wholesome doctrine.Pag. 198
• Ministers must resist resisters of the truth.Pag. 199
• A Minister ought to be a man of know∣ledge.Pag. 201
• The Scriptures fully furnish the man of God to euery ministeriall dutie.Pag. 203
• Errour in life is commonly a ground of er∣rour in doctrine.Pag. 206
• They spend much labour in vaine who are disobedient to the doctrine themselues teach.Pag. 207
• The greater the danger is the playner must reproofe be.Pag. 215
• The Arch-seducers of the world are they of the circumcision, who ioyne faith and workes in the act of iustification.Pag. 217
• Faithfull teachers must timely oppose them∣selues against seducers.Pag. 220
• Seducers secretly infect and creepe into houses.Pag. 227
• Errour is exceeding infectious.Pag. 229
• An heart set vpon gaine will feed it selfe by falshood.Pag. 230
• A minister may be plaine in his reproofes.Pag. 233
• A minister must ioyne wisedome to playnes in reproouing.Pag. 234
• The Gentiles had their Prophets so called to witnesse against their impietie.Pag. 238
• It is not simply vnlawfull to alleadge the saying of a profane man in a sermon.Pag. 242
• Falsehood in word or deed is condemned by the verie light of nature.Pag. 245
• The Scriptures call brutish men by the name of beasts.Pag. 249
• Many men are so degenerate that they haue cut themselues from the account of men.Pag. 250
• A life led in idlenesse is condemned by the light of nature, and of the Scriptures.Pag. 253
• Idlenesse and intemperance are seldome dis∣ioyned.Pag. 256
• Euery truth is Gods, and must be receiued whosoeuer is the instrument of it.Pag. 258
• Ministers must not be discouraged though they be to deale with a wretched and bru∣tish people.Pag. 259
• No reproofe may be vngrounded, but the cause must be iust, and knowne so to be.Pag. 261
• Euery reproofe must be tempered to the na∣ture of the sinne.Pag. 263
• The sharpest censure in the Church must ayme at the recouerie of offenders.Pag. 265
• Christians must not content themselues with spirituall life, vnlesse it be atten∣ded with health and soundnesse.Pag. 267
• A speciall meanes of soundnesse of faith, is to shut the eares against fables and fan∣cies of men.Pag. 274
• A fearefull iudgement of God it is to be turned away from the truth.Pag. 277
• The Scriptures account Christians pure, but not Puritans.Pag. 283
• ...

• All indifferent things must be vsed in 1. faith, 2. loue, 3. sobrietie.Pag. 291
• Divinitie of Scripture is prooued by dis∣couering the inward thoughts of wicked men.Pag. 309
• A wicked man is euery way a most odious person.Pag. 311
• Before naturall vncleanesse be purged away euery thing is vncleane to a man.Pag. 313
• There will be euer hypocrites in the Church.Pag. 317
• There be many characters by which hypo∣crites may be known & discouered.Pag. 320
• No example of man must turne vs out of a godly course.Pag. 331
• Ministers must feede their people with wholesome doctrine.Pag. 333
• Wholesome doctrine must be applyed to the seuerall ages and conditions of men.Pag. 339
• Olde men must first be taught their dutie, why?Pag. 342
• Sobrietie especially enioyned vnto old men.Pag. 345
• Elder men ought to carrie a seemely graui∣tie through their course.Pag. 346
• Moderation of lusts and passions is a most seemely grace in an old man.Pag. 347
• Soundnes of faith especially required in the Elder.Pag. 351
• Euerie man must learne to repaire the de∣cay of nature with soundnes of grace.Pag. 352
• Soundnesse of loue is iustly called for of olde men.Pag. 355
• Sound patience is more especially commen∣ded to the elder sort.Pag. 358
• Women are as straitly bound to the meanes of their saluation as men.Pag. 362
• The generall rule for womens behauiour is, that it must become holinesse.Pag. 365
• False accusing specially forbidden to wo∣men.Pag. 368
• Drunkennesse in elder women a most hate∣full sinne.Pag. 370
• It is a note of corruption to yeeld our selues seruants to the creatures made to serue vs.Pag. 371
• Euerie Christian woman must cal on others with her selfe to a godly course.Pag. 373
• The fruits of the Christian carriage of the Elder women, must appeare in the youn∣ger.Pag. 375
• Christian women must loue their husbands.Pag. 377
• Women ought to loue their children, and how.Pag. 382
• A discreet carriage is a beautifull grace in a young woman.Pag. 384
• Chastity is an essential mariage dutie.Pag. 385
• Women ought to keep their own houses.Pag. 389
• Goodnes is required in women, what it is, & how.Pag. 390
• Women must be subiect to their husbands, wherein, and why.Pag. 391
• Profession without practise causeth the holy name of God to be blasphemed.Pag. 398
• Young men must order their wayes by the word.Pag. 404
• The Pastor must sometimes entreate where he may command. Pag. 408
• Sobrietie is a vertue fitly commended to young men. Pag. 410
• Consent of good life and holy doctrine make a sweete harmonie in a Minister. Pag. 413
• It is possible for a man by grace to liue vn∣blameably. Pag. 416
• Faithfull Ministers shall not want with∣standers. Pag. 417
• Resisters of godly Ministers lade them with reproaches. Pag. 419
• Euery Christians care must be to stoppe the mouthes of the wicked. Pag. 421
• Seruants ought to be subiect to their ma∣sters.

• ... 423
• Theft of seruants neuer so coloured is con∣demned. Pag. 429
• Seruants are bound to shewe all good faith∣fulnesse. Pag. 431
• The meanest Christian may and must bring glorie to the Gospel. Pag. 433
• The Gospel is the doctrine of Gods grace. Pag. 437
• The doctrine of the Gospel, is a sauing do∣ctrine. Pag. 440
• The Gospel is a bright & shining light. Pag. 446
• The Gospel is a schoolemaster as well as the Lawe. Pag. 453
• The doctrine of grace truely receiued tea∣cheth to denie all vngodlinesse. Pag. 458
• A Christian must denie all lusts whatsoeuer may seeme to plead for them.Pag. 463
• The doctrine of grace teacheth both to e∣schewe euill, and doe good. Pag. 465
• The Gospel looketh for some answearable return for the saluation it bringeth. Pag. 467
• The doctrine of the Gospel teacheth sobrie∣tie of life, wherein it standeth, and rules of practise. Pag. 468
• The Gospel calleth for iust and righteous dealing at professors hands. Pag. 471
• The Gospel inioyneth a godly life, the proper work of piety, & rules of practise. Pag. 473
• Godlinesse must be exercised in this present world. Pag. 478
• The Gospel receiued in truth lifteth vp the heart to wait for Christ his second appea∣ring. Pag. 482
• The expectation of Christ his second com∣ming is a notable meanes to prouoke to Christian duties. Pag. 491
• Christ his glorie shal shine out in ful bright∣nesse at his second appearing. Pag. 494
• Wee ought neuer to speake of God, but in a weighie matter, and reuerent man∣ner. Pag. 496
• Christ gaue himselfe for his Church, but not for euery particular man. Pag. 505
• Before Christ redeemed vs we were misera∣ble slaues vnder sinne and death. Pag. 511
• The Sonne of God hauing once set vs free great is our freedome. Pag. 514
• Redemption and sanctification are insepe∣rable companions. Pag. 517
• The members of the Church are Gods pecu∣liar people. Pag. 523
• The worker must be good before any worke can be so. Pag. 527
• Iustified persons must needes bring forth good workes. Pag. 527
• The thing that God requireth in euery pro∣fessour is zeale in weldoing. Pag. 529
• All proofes and reproofes must be fetched from the Scriptures. Pag. 534
• The word of God must be so handled as that the authoritie of it be preserued. Pag. 535
• To despise Gods Ministers is a grieuous sin. Pag. 537
• The doctrine of subiection to Magistracie must be often enforced, and why. Pag. 539
• The scope of the Ministerie is to put men, and keepe them in remembrance of Chri∣stian duties. Pag. 540
• The memorie ought to be taken vp with godly instructions learned in the Mini∣strie. Pag. 541
• Christianitie consumeth not Magistracie but confirmeth it. Pag. 544
• Euery soule must be subiect to the higher powers. Pag. 548
• Euery Christian must make account that e∣uery Christian dutie belongeth vnto him. Pag. 559
• Euery man ought to preserue in himselfe a readinesse to euery good worke. Pag. 563
• The word condemneth as well vnbridled

• speaches, as disordered actions. Pag. 566
• Euill speaking is a most hatefull sinne in Christians. Pag. 568
• A Christian may not be a common barra∣ter. Pag. 574
• Christian equitie is a beautifull grace in Christians. Pag. 579
• Christian meekenes beseemeth euery Chri∣stian. Pag. 584
• The consideration of our common condition is a notable ground of meekenes. Pag. 588
• Whosoeuer is called vnto the faith hath ex∣perience of a change in himselfe. Pag. 591
• The whole course of an vnconuerted man is an vnwise walking. Pag. 596
• A marke of a man out of Christ is to resist and reason against the word. Pag. 599
• Before men bee brought to Christ, their whole life is but a wandring from God. Pag. 601
• The spirit that is in man lusteth after en∣vie. Pag. 617
• Then are wee saued when wee are sancti∣fied. Pag. 627
• Before the Lord put forth his loue in Christ it could not bee reached of man nor an∣gel. Pag. 632
• Workes of righteousnesse are excluded from iustifying vs before God. Pag. 635
• The Lord in baptisme not onely offereth, or signifieth, but truely exhibiteth grace. Pag. 639
• All the inward grace of baptisme is from the Holy Ghost. Pag. 650
• God in sauing men reneweth them to his owne image. Pag. 655
• The graces of the spirit are plentifully pow∣red out vpon vs in the new Testament, as not of a full mercie. Pag. 660
• Christ our Lord the onely fountaine of all our welfare. Pag. 664
• The righteousnesse of a sinner before God is not any qualitie in the beleeuer. Pag. 669
• The honour of the Saints is, that they are heires of life eternall. Pag. 674
• All truthes must bee deliuered, but some more stood vpon, and vrged then o∣ther. Pag. 680
• A good worke cannot come but from a good man. Pag. 684
• Professors of the Gospel must be the first and forwardest in euerie good work. Pag. 686
• Doctrine must bee true and truely dealt withall. Pag. 689
• Sathan seeketh to corrupt the purest Chur∣ches, by bringing in needelesse questi∣ons. Pag. 696
• There haue beene alwaies, are, and shall be heretikes in the Church of God. Pag. 703
• Euen heretikes and enemies of the Church must bee louingly dealt with by the Church. Pag. 706
• It is dangerous for the Churches to be left destitute of their teachers though for a short time. Pag. 726
• The Lord maketh good vse of the most wic∣ked consciences. Pag. 723
• Christianitie enioyneth all kind of ciuill cur∣tesie. Pag. 731
• Such as are in the Lords work must be car∣fully prouided for that they lacke no∣thing. Pag. 732
• Christianitie is no barren or fruit lesse pro∣f••ssion. Pag. 739
• Religion is the strongest binder of man to man. Pag. 748