EyOle of S. Caul to Titres. CnAP.i.:Y3.1 aerieway by praaife ofvngodlineffe, as vile as this peopleof Creta, we .26t fhould yet be admitted co the participation offo great faluation, as is offered in theGofpel. Wherefore reprooue themfharpely,] Now from the former teaimony affirmed tobenothing but the truth it felfe,the Apoale inferreth that Titus not only might fafely,bur ought alío to reprooue and checke the inhabitantsofthis Band:which reproofe is enlarged, a. By the adiunbtor qualitie, /harpey, or as the word fig- r , nifieth, to the quicke:for it is a metaphor taken fromSurgeons, who cut . and launce, and feare to the quicke, ifthe qualitie ofthe wound or fore forequire, yea and fomerimos in defperate cafes to cut off adangerous limbe, or putrified member, which otherwife would perifh the whole body: and nootherwife ought eueryfpirituallPhy (ician to deale with the feared loresof the foules of men. a. By the ende ofthisreproofe, that they way bee found in thefaith, Faith fignifleth, t. that wherebywe beleeue, namely,the venue or gift of faith, a. Thatwhich we doe beleeue, namely, the dotrineof faith, that is,the doétrine oftheGofpel: Gal.1.22.4'aa/ defroyed thefaith,that is, the dodtrine offaith, which bee nowepreacheth. And thus is it here meant, becaufe it is oppofed to the lewr h fables, and commaundements of men, in the next verfe : and then the Apoale ( following the former metaphor) wifheth the Mtniaers who are the Surgeons of' foules in all their launcing andcutting, toaime at the cure , that is, the eonuerfi- on of their patients , that is, their people; that bceing freed from their corrupt difeafes, that is, their errouts,whether in iudgernent or prac`tifò, they may bebrought to found health, that is,foundnefìeoffaith and fin- ceredoarine,cleauing onlyvetoGod,anci relying rhemfeluesonly vpon the merit ofthe Lord Iefus for life and faluarion.Andyet in this e xpofi- clon I include alío the vertue and gift offaith, l'o farte as without it there can be no found Chriaians; but I admit it 'not to be the thing properly meant,as fome doe. DoElr. In the word wherefore note, that when the truthofa feì or Yn reproofe finnecommitted is certainly knowne, a man Thereunto calledmay bold- n,ayre rngrof ly reproouc; this is the reafon why the Apoale fubfcribeth to the tea : - moyfie, that Titus might haue fufficient ground of fhatpe reproofe. As i [ O known though he had Paid , it is true, the people with whom thou art to deale j io be. are fuck and fuch,and therefore thoumain fharpely reprooue them. And it is not everyeuidence which is a fuf icient ground, no not for private reproofe, andmuch leffe for publike: but as our Apofile, t. Cor. .r.It is certenlyheard that there isfornication amongyou; and fodefcendcth to adharp reproofe:at the lean theremuff be force credible information, R 2 loch'
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