CONTENTS. MATTHEW Xxvi. 41. I hear, that when ye come together in the congrega- tion, there are divisions among you: and I believe it, as to some part of you. For there must also be For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far bet And they came over unto the other side of the sea, in- to the country of the Gadarenes. And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs, a man with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no not with chains: because that he had been often bound with chains and fetters, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken to pieces; so that no man could tame him. And always, night and SERMON I. I TIM. i. 15. This is a certain truth, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. THIS epistle was written in the year of our Lord fifty-six, when Timothy most probably was about twenty-six or twenty-seven years of age, and not long after St. Paul had been obliged to quit Ephesus on account of the disturbance raised by Demetrius and the silversmiths against the apostle and his companions. These artificers, who were in great numbers, were exasperated against them, because their preaching against idolatry had diminished their trade of making shrines as we translate it, i. e. making little temples with images of the goddess Diana in them, which the people were wont to buy to carry about with them and for their private devotion VOL. I. B |