hall be fuffered to do unto us: Say 22, 28. ing, when men shall ask them Deut. 29, wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this Land? what meaneth 8. the heat of this great anger? 1 King. 9. even because they have for faken Jer. 22, 8. the covenant of the Lord God of their Fathers, and walked not in his ways. John Bunyan.. B 4 A A HOLY LIFE, .THE BEAUTY OF Christianity. 2. Tim. 2. 19.. And, let every one that nameth the name of Chrift, depart from iniquity. T chap. 5. Imothy, unto whom this Epiftle was writ, was an Ephef. 4.1 Evangelift, that is, inferior to Apostles and extraordinary Prophets, and above ordinary Pastors and Teachers. And he with the rest of thofe under his circumstances was to go with the Apoules B. S Apostles hither, and thither, to be difpofed of by them as they faw need for the further edification of those who by the Apoftolical Ministry were converted to the Faith: And 1 was hence it is that Titus was left at Tim.1.3. Creet, and that this Timothy was left at Ephefus. For they were to do a work for Chrift in the world, which the Apostles were to begin, and leave upon their hand to finish. Now when the Apostles departed from places, and had left thefe Evangelists in their stead, ufually there did arile foine badSpirits among thofe people, where these were left for the furtherance of the Faith. This is manifeft by both the Epistles to Timothy, and alfo by that to Titus: wherefore Paul, upon whom thefe two Evangelifts waited for the fulfilling of their Ministry, writeth unto them while they abode where he left them, concerning those turbulent Sprits which they met with, and to teach them how yet further they ought to behave themfelves in the houfe of God, which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of truth... And to this pur pofe pofe he gives them severally divers inftructions (as the judicious Reader may easily understand) by which he incourageth them to the profecution of that fervice which for Chrift they had to do for those people where he had left them, and alfo inftructeth them how to carry it towards their disturbers, which laft he doth, not only Doctrinally, but alfo by thew ing them by his example and practice, what he would have them do... This done,he laboureth to comfort Timothy with the remembrance of the ftedfastnefs of Gods eternal de. cree of Election, because grounded on his foreknowledge; faying, tho Hymeneus and Philetus have erred from the Faith, and by their fall, have overthrown the Faith of fome, Tec·· the foundation of God ftandeth fure, having this Seal, the Lord knoweth them that are his Now left this lait hint fhould ftill incourage fome to be remifs and carnally fecure, and foolish, as I fuppofe this Doctrine abufed, had incouraged them to be before: Therefore the Apostle immediately conjoyneth to it, this exhortation: And, let every one that |