2. The same word is applied to God in the same manner of Speech, twice before in this same Epistle, and in both places is he called (a Saviour) in respect to Eternal Salvation, and not to Temporal only ⟨p. 369⟩1 Tim. 1. 1. [Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ our Hope. [1 Tim. 2. 3] For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all Men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the Truth For there is ••e God, and one Mediator between God and Man, ••e Man Jesus Christ, who gave himself a Ransom for all, to be testified in due time.) He that denieth that the Apostle doth in both these places ••ll God a Saviour, in respect to Spiritual and Everlasting Salvation, is either very blind or perverse. And is it not fit for us to understand the same phrase used in the next Chapter save ••e as in the same Sense? If one Scripture must interpret another, sure it is. On 1 Tim. 1. 1. ••scator himself can expound the same Phrase ••us [observa nomen [Greek or Hebrew] servatoris etiam Patri ••ribui. Is enim servat nos per Filium: Quippe ••m salutis nostrae causd misit, & per quem nos sibi •conciliavit, per quem etiam Spiritum Sanctum •• nos mittit. [And will not an impartial Man ••en expound the same Phrase here in the ••me manner? Specially there being no rea•• to be brought from the Text to the contra••. Even so doth Calvin expound 1 Tim. 1. 1. ••d 2. 3. and generally all interpreters that I have observed. Yea let every place in the New testament be examined where God the Father •• called a Saviour, and it will be found to have ••ference to Everlasting Salvation, and not to ••poral only. Tit 2. 10. That they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. For the ••ce of God that bringeth Salvation, hath appeared ••all Men; Tit. 3. 4. But after that the kindness ⟨p. 370⟩and love of God our Saviour toward Man appeared not by works of Righteousness, which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of Regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour. Luke 1. 47. My Soul doth magnify the Lord, and my Spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. So Tit. 1. 3. and Jud. 25. both in the same Sense: And I remember no more in the New Testament.
2. The same word is applied to God in the same manner of Speech, twice before in this same Epistle, and in both places is he called (a Saviour) in respect to Eternal Salvation, and not to Temporal only ⟨p. 369⟩1 Tim. 1. 1. [Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ our Hope. [1 Tim. 2. 3] For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all Men to be saved, and to come to the knowledg of the Truth For there is ••e God, and one Mediator between God and Man, ••e Man Jesus Christ, who gave himself a Ransom for all, to be testified in due time.) He that denieth that the Apostle doth in both these places ••ll God a Saviour, in respect to Spiritual and Everlasting Salvation, is either very blind or perverse. And is it not fit for us to understand the same phrase used in the next Chapter save ••e as in the same Sense? If one Scripture must interpret another, sure it is. On 1 Tim. 1. 1. ••scator himself can expound the same Phrase ••us [observa nomen 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 servatoris etiam Patri ••ribui. Is enim servat nos per Filium: Quippe ••m salutis nostrae causd misit, & per quem nos sibi •conciliavit, per quem etiam Spiritum Sanctum •• nos mittit. [And will not an impartial Man ••en expound the same Phrase here in the ••me manner? Specially there being no rea•• to be brought from the Text to the contra••. Even so doth Calvin expound 1 Tim. 1. 1. ••d 2. 3. and generally all interpreters that I have observed. Yea let every place in the New estament be examined where God the Father called a Saviour, and it will be found to have ference to Everlasting Salvation, and not to poral only. Tit 2. 10. That they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. For the ce of God that bringeth Salvation, hath appeared all Men;
