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A04220	An exposition of the second epistle of the apostle Paul to Timothy, the first chapter Wherein 1 The text is logically into it's parts resolved ... 4 The seuerall doctrines thence arising deduced. ... All which is accompanied with familiar and delightfull similitudes ... Lastly as the matter requireth: there is vsed, definitions, distributions, subdiuisions, trialls, motiues, and directions, all which be of great vse in their proper order. By Iohn Barlovv ...	Barlow, John, b. 1580 or 81.	1625 (1625)	STC 1434; ESTC S100861	328,113	454

the gifts of grace from stirring growing Thus hauing remoued the quench-coale from oppressing 1 Cor. 9. vlt. the fire of the spirit like an ouer-laded beast eased of his burden we will adde some incentines to blow and stirre it vp that it may kindle flame and ascend and they be either publike or priuate 1. Goe not my friend from Ierusalem to Iericho where Helpes to stir vp grace in vs. though the situation is good the waters are nought but plant thy selfe vnder a powerfull ministerie and then diligently attend to the word When Paul had said quench not the spirit hee addes immediately despise not Prophecyings Preaching will 1 Thes 5. 19. like a mightie wind cause this spirituall fire to kindle and burne within vs. 2. The sacraments The one puts vs in minde of our promise the other of the comming of our Lord in glorie Will not the least token from a friend cause our hearts to leape within vs Did not the babe spring in his mothers wombe when the mother of Christ came neere him and shall not grace bestirred vpin consideration that he is at the verie dores 3. Good companions Saul will Prophecie among the prophets and the greenest wood burne being bound with the dry one coale will kindle many and diuerse litle brands set one another on burning when Silas came to Paul did he not burne in spirit 4. Diligence in our particular callings This will constraine vs to stirre vp the grace that is in vs for the actions thereof are like so many instruments without which wee cannot set this fire a working and through idlenesse doe not our gifts lye dead rust and canker 5. Singing of Psalmes When we ioyne with others in this action how will grace flame within vs euery word will lift vp the minde and each period leaue a sweete relish behind it that will glad the spirit Loue-songs doe noe more inflame lust than the song of songs will grace in the hart 6. Lastly admonition it will worke wonderfully if it bee performed with circumstance and in season It s like oyle that makes the face shining and glorious or the morning dew that waters the tender plants Where this fals grace wil sprout and flourish The priuate helpes are 1. Reading either the scriptures or other holy writings This being done in a corner will refresh the spirit It s like foode to the fainting Passenger 2. Meditation he that sits long by the fire shall haue his body to grow hot and his cold spirits to become actiue nimble Let this be done thorowly and it will make grace to stretch it selfe beyond its ordinary wont and the Christian to be rapt out of himselfe He that viewes the sunne will soone cast downe his head so hee that thinkes seriously of the sonne of God will cry I haue ioy enough 3. Praier who euer in his secret chamber went to God by praier but hee was rauisht in minde and in the strength of that action spent all that day without wearines God giueth the greatest gifts in secret and like man reueileth himselfe a not such a one possesse the place of one that 's lawfully sent and called of God and man and make the ground of the Church barren Let them then who assume to themselues this office of dignitie Vse 1. take heed what they doe The person ordinated must be of good report well qualified For otherwise it may and will be the very bane and pestilence of the Church when men vnfit not furnished with convenient gifts are ordinated inducted What saith our Lord If the blind lead the blinde doe not both fall into the ditch Mat. 15. 14. This also from the rule of relation must teach them who Vse 2. enterprize this high calling to be carefull to enter in an holy manner at Gods doore not the deuills window Such can neither expect the protection or blessing of God They sit like a man on the toppe of a mast the least gust makes them subiect to drowning Some assume this place as a theefe an vntamed horse backe him with much a doe ride him in a sweat and come downe with a mischiefe It may be iustly said to such friend how camest thou in hither who sent thee or requireth this at thine hands Whereas Timotheus his gifts were increased by prayer Prophecy and imposition of hands wee may conclude that The ordinances of God are not without profit if rightly practised Doct. 7. Who euer vsed any in an holy manner but preuailed for a blessing Was not the plague stayed when Aaron tooke a censer put fire thereon from the altar and incense according to Moses command and did not the blood of the Paschall Lamble stay the Angel which destroyed the Aegiptians from touching the Israelites When was preaching or praier vaine in the Lord if duly performed Numb 16. 8. Exod. 12. 23. 2 Sam. 24. 16. Acts 2. 41. and 4. 31. and 16. 14. Ia. 5. 16. 2. Chro. 30. 20. Isa 38. 5. For hath not each ordinance a special promise Aske and Reas 1. ye shall haue Seeke and ye shall finde Knocke and it shall be opened vnto you And shall wee thinke that the condition on our part performed the Lord will faile on his word Let not such a thought once creepe into our minde Mat. 7. 7. What if our best actions be imperfect is not the sinne Reas 2. remoued by the blood of Christ Iesus shall he not present them to his father without spot without rinckle When our Lord hath corrected our errours cut off the superfluitie supplied the defects of our doings then shall they appeare good before God and receiue a recompence of reward Rev. 8. 3. Away then with that old and no lesse profane complaint Vse 1. Isa 58. 3. We haue fasted and thou seest not afflicted our soules and thou regardest not and what profit is there in seruing Iob 21. 15. the almightie Was not Ahabs humiliation rewarded Iehues zeale commended and in some sort recompenced Yet were they not Hypocrites reprobates Their word was the Lord of hosts but their proper scope the praise of men the safetie of themselues not the glory of God rather their proiects were an earthly kingdome Shall wee thinke then that sinceritie in Gods service is without reward that his ordinances are not being in an holy manner performed profitable euery way to his faithfull servants What stronger motiue can be in the world to induce men Vse 2. to be frequent in good duties than this consideration Humble thy selfe the Lord shall lift thee vp Preach the Saints shal then be gathered the body of Christ edified Fast and pray and thou shalt prosper Commune with the best of Gods seruants bee a companion to them that feare him Come often to the Lords table and corruption shall wither dye the fruite of the Spirit grow flourish and waxe strong within thee For is not the promise of God true doth not his word stand for euer

that patterne consisting of sound words being so in themselues as likewise able to worke and preserue soundnesse in thee To the knowledge whereof thou camest by the writings especiallie that thou hast receiued at my hands And know thou that this patterne cannot any wayes else bee obserued but by the aide and helpe of that faith and loue the which God the father hath shed abroad in thy heart not for any desert of thine but through his meere mercie hath confer'd them on thee by Christ Iesus Where as Paul hath disswaded and perswaded and now Doctrines dedi●●d giues Timothie a rule by which he may be directed in his proceedings we first note from his example that Perswasion and disswasion are to be accompanied with direction Doct. 1. 1 Cor. 12. vlt. Heb. 6. 1. 1 Tim. 6. 2 It s not sufficient for a man to say doe this and not that but he must lay downe rules and helpes whereby he with whom he is to deale may be inabled for the dutie For otherwise a man will either stand still and doe nothing Reas 1. or if he doe not so yet he shall worke out of all good order Againe else the minister should not deliuer the counsell of Acts 20. 27. God guilty should he be of the peoples blood and so consequentlie without sound comfort This correcteth the hot and fierie spirits of some who like Vse 1. an vnskilfull rider be alwayes spurring but neuer guiding They cry why will ye doe that and wherefore doe you this but doe not giue them direction how to auoyd the one or performe the other And so it fals out that the one hath no profit the other as little comfort Let vs then learne as to perswade and disswade so to direct Vse 2. others God willed that Moses should build him a tabernacle yet he gaue him a patterne how to be directed in the perfecting of the same So let ministers haue an eye to this that their people may doe all things in comelinesse and in order Keepe thou the patterne c. As these words be a direction we gather that The best way to maintaine the puritie of Religion is to haue a Doct. 2. patterne Exod. 20. Ier. 6. 16. Gal. 6. 16. Psal 119. 9. For God at the first writ the patterne in mans heart by the Reas 1. Adam had the the law writ in his heart at the creation Rom. 2. 15. which he might haue beene kept from all sinne and impuritie as may be thus proued For 1. The Gentiles many yeares after had some remainders of the law by which they were guided in their hearts the which could not haue beene had it not beene engrauen in Adams at the creation 2. Those to whom the Lord will shew mercy he hath promised that he will put his law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts Ier. 31. 33. Heb. ● 10. 3. We are commanded to write it vpon the tables of our hearts Pro. 3. 3. and the Prophet saith He hid the word in his heart Psal 119. 11. 4. Euery creature had the rule created with him and in him whereby he was to be guided in all his actions But man sinning broke the patterne and obliterated these excellent rules that were perfect in him at his creation And if the rule was not within him where was it or why should God guide all his other creatures by an internall precept and not man And euerie good man may find this in himselfe and see it in others that the more holy they grow the more shall they find the word of God imprinted in their hearts And doubtlesse when that a man is perfectlie sanctified which will not be here he shall haue the law absolutelie 1 Cor. 13. 9. 10. renewed and engrauen in him so that in this sence the word may be said to abide for euer And here we might adde the iudgement of the Hebrew Pirke R Eliezer in Gen. 2. doctors and the most that euer writ for the further confirmation of this that Adam at his creation had the law writ in his heart and was to haue beene guided by it The reason I stand to proue this is in that those who hold that Christs actiue and passiue obedience doe not concurre both of them to mans iustification seeke to maintaine that Adam had no law in him or out of him to guide him except the trees of life and death good and euill But certainly this is a farre fetcht shift and as farre from the truth 1. For the trees were as Sacraments to seale life or death vpon the breach or obseruation of the law as ours be Adam broke the morall law 2. When Adam ate the forbidden fruite did he not breake all the Decalogue 3. Sathan was subtile and tempted Adam to breake the kings seale for that spoiled all the rest And the blotting out of a word or sentence is not so great an offence in any deed or writing as to destroy spoile and abuse the seale 4. Why did God giue the tables in stone afterwards if man was not to be guided by them in his creation Was he then bound to God and his brother and not before or did God make a new law or set Adams sonnes a taske their father neuer had But we let this passe and proceed to giue further reasons of the point in hand Againe the naturall powers of man are much weakened Reas 2. much more the spirituall since Adams fall And the Lord seeing that gaue his people a law writ in two tables of stone for a patterne and why then 1. Because the children of Israell were multiplied as the Why the law was writ in Moses time sand by the sea shore according to his promise made vnto Abraham 2. In that the gouernours of families were growne negligent and would not teach their house and children the lawes of God 3. And especiallie in regard at that day there was scarce any print or footesteps of the law left remaining in the hearts of the sonnes of men For processe of time had worne them out 4. And finallie for that the people began to murmur at the doctrine of Moses and Aaron crying they tooke too much vpon them as if they had bound heauier burdens than the Lord himselfe prescribed to them Besides in the course of our Pilgrimage we shall meete Reas 3. with many false teachers infinite and innumerable errours and heresies and how can these things be discerned otherwise than by a true and infallible rule Furthermore doe we not see how that grounds are good Reason 4. in all beginnings as to dispute speake c And last of all patternes helpe our darke iudgements ●eas 5. better our affections confirme our memcries and yeeld vs comfort and incouragement in all our proceedings This serueth to confute our aduersaries who denie the Vse 1. people the patterne of all puritie the word of truth They may be likened

creature cannot but haue a large extent a spreading operation This may informe vs what to judge of many in these Vse 1. dayes surely they haue little or none of this oyle or fire abroad and kindled in their hearts for if they had we should fee it's spreading We may truly say with Christ that Loue is waxen cold Many boast much of it but where shall we finde a faithfull louing man for all seeke their owne and not the good of their brethren We haue a prouerbe Loue me and loue my dog I wish some did not more loue their dogs then the Lords children And by this doctrine in the impartiall examination of Vse 2. our selues we may try the trueth of our Loue. Canst thou that art a Magistrate say with Moses Oh! that there were such an heart in my people to serue God being a preacher canst thou breake out with Paul I would to God that all that heare me this day were such as I am the children of the Lord Hath the Lord made thee a father and canst thou pray with Abraham and Noah Oh that Ismael might liue and Iapheth dwell in the tents of Shem that is that my disobedient seed might know the Lord God of their father serue him and be saued you that are Gouernours of families is it in your hearts and hands for you and your people to follow God doe you labour like Cornelius that all your family might feare the Lord And you that are single persons doe you helpe one another to get grace and to grow vp in godlines then this fire of true affection is from Gods owne altar descended on you this loue is shed abroad in your hearts the oyle of amity hath annointed your garments and you are of that number which with ioy vnspeakeable shall one day behold the face of God But if this desired spreading be absent your hearts are stuffed with hatred cold envy hath benummed your subtile and actiue affections and therefore take heed of this that you be not found haters of God and louers of pleasure aboue him or his If you be heare your doome Depart from me into euerlasting fire for I know you not you did neuer visit me in my members cloath me feede me or build vp my decaied body by prayer instruction example nor in affection therefore you haue no loue in you neither shall ye receiue any fauour at my hands for the head and members make but one obiect Thou wilt say vnto me How farre will loue spread it Quest Answ selfe Why from God the Father to all his children Christ the head to all his members from the beginning of Gods booke to the last letter in breife from one end of the world from one part of the large heauens vnto the other true loue would haue al sexes persons countries and kingdomes so farre forth as it may stand with the will of God the Father to be sanctified and for euer blessed for there is no bounds in loue Affection vnlesse God chaine it the which he may and doth for mans vnworthines is without limits spreading it selfe from the externall conuexe of the highest throne round about and thence descendeth to the earth's lowest center yea Loue embraceth the Lord who is infinite incomprehensible so farre forth as sound reason doth rightly guide it direct it It is a garment that doth cloth all creatures and to the vttermost of its power wrap within its louely armes the eternall Creatour He that findeth this in himselfe findeth a good thing and but that very character which is imprinted in the heart of euery true beleeuer and faithfull person I might deduct another doctrine out of the matter of this petition which is that The mercy of God is principally to be desired for our friends Doct. 5. For what Paul prayed for for his friends we should request also for ours Rom. 1. 7. 1 Cor. 1. 3. Gal. 1. 3. For if we receiue mercy from God we shall want no Reas 1. manner of thing For to whom the Lord shewes mercy to that man he will giue all gifts spirituall and corporall whateuer so farre as they be good for him Againe had we all other fauours the world can affoard Reas 2. yet without the mercy of God they would but proue curses to vs in the end for without mercy we are no members of Christ so no sonnes and consequently no heires of heauen This checkes the preposterous course of many in these Vse 1. times The Papist he entreates God that his friend may haue his Purgatory here or in another world but omits the mercy of God in the beginning The common Christian or earth-worme wisheth his kinred and companions strong bodies large possessions heapes of siluer and long life but no mention of Gods mercy all this while that is least thought on seldome prayed for He that obserueth but the custome of many in their best wishes shall heare them ordinarily crosse this Canon and method of our Apostle Let this then be a derection to thee what chiefly and Vse 2. first of all to beg of God for thy friends Aske not that thy sonnes may sit at the right hand of Christ in his earthly kingdome for it is not of this world Cry not for Quailes in the wildernesse for they may choake thee and thine nor for riches for the theefe may breake through thy wall carry them away seeke not long life or like Saul the honour of the people But cry to the Lord for grace and mercy this this is that one thing necessary for thy selfe for all thy friends And though few doe thinke so yet it is so for if the Lord doe not deny thee this then hee will deny thee nothing and hee that hath this shall haue all things This will wash away thy sinnes cloath thee with the righteousnesse of Christ enrich thee with the sauing graces of the Spirit procure thee food and rayment sanctifie all things to thee affliction and sinne it selfe giue thee comfort in trouble hope in death and carry thee to the throne of God where in his presence thou and thy friends shall haue fulnesse of ioy for euermore Then when thou prayest say The Lord giue mercy to me and my friends to them and their families For hee oft refreshed me In these words wee will briefly point out the Doctrines and handle some of them From the person refreshed Paul we gather that Want may befall Gods dearest children Doct. 6. Iacob sometime went ouer Iordan with his staffe Ioseph was once no rich man the widow of Sarepta was in a great Gen 32. 10. 1 King 17. 6. Luk. 16. 20. strait Lazarus was poore and it is said the women did minister to Christ Luke 8. 3. of their substance The Lord doth it for many Reasons First to correct his for the abuse of his creatures for Reas 1. when wee haue like the Prodigall mis-spent abused or surfetted on them the Lord in