Sermon
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1 TIM. 1. 5. Now the end of the Commandment is Charity, out of a pure heart, and of a good Conscience, and of Faith unfeigned.
THE holy Apostle St. Paul, as appears in the beginning of the Chapter and Epistle, finds some at Ephesus, who troubled the Church with needless, and with fruitless Doctrine; and therefore if you consult the third and fourth Verses of this Chapter, you will find he besought Timothy to abide at Ephesus, when he went into Macedonia, that he might charge some, that they teach ⟨p. 2⟩no other Doctrine [Greek or Hebrew] Teach Doctrines contrary to what he had taught; or Doctrines contrary to the General Tenor of the Gospel. Such Teachers he calls accursed, Gal. 1. 8.
THE holy Apostle St. Paul, as appears in the beginning of the Chapter and Epistle, finds some at Ephesus, who troubled the Church with needless, and with fruitless Doctrine; and therefore if you consult the third and fourth Verses of this Chapter, you will find he besought Timothy to abide at Ephesus, when he went into Macedonia, that he might charge some, that they teach ⟨p. 2⟩no other Doctrine 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Teach Doctrines contrary to what he had taught; or Doctrines contrary to the General Tenour of the Gospel. Such Teachers he calls accursed, Gal. 1. 8.
He would have him warn them at the fourth Verse, Not to give heed to Fables, and endless Genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying, which is in Faith, Timothy was besought by St. Paul, to give this charge to, and concerning the Teachers at Ephesus.