An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

Let the Use be, To us all to importune God, who is the God of peace, and who alone can fashion the hearts and minds of men alike, that he would bless the Church with this Unity. Oh how greatly would godliness flourish, errors be discouraged, if it could be said, of all believers, which is spoken of the primitive Christians often, That they met together with one accord, and with one heart! Oh how blessed is it to see the whole Church of God, rather than one family, or City to dwell together in Unity!

Let the Use be, To us all to importune God, who is the God of peace, and who alone can fashion the hearts and minds of men alike, that he would bless the Church with this Unity. Oh how greatly would godliness flourish, errours be discouraged, if it could be said, of all believers, which is spoken of the primitive Christians often, That they met together with one accord, and with one heart! Oh how blessed is it to see the whole Church of God, rather than one family, or City to dwell together in Unity!

The next thing observable is, in that Timothy, who is here called a Brother, is at other times very often called a Sonne. And besides the Reasons insisted on the ⟨p. 49⟩last day, there is another mentioned, Phil. 2. 22. that Paul was as a Father to him, instructing of him about his Ministerial Office, and therefore had two Epistles wrote to him for the managing of Ecclesiastical affairs in a godly manner. This great help and tuition (as it were) Timothy had from Paul, being made a Church-officer, while he was young. Observe,

The next thing observable is, in that Timothy, who is here called a Brother, is at other times very often called a Sonne. And besides the Reasons insisted on the ⟨p. 49⟩last day, there is another mentioned,