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Exposition of Titus

by
Thomas Taylor

Spurgeon says of this work, `The title-page calls Thomas Taylor "a famous and most elaborate divine. This commentary will well repay the reader." Some may say, So many pages cannot be all about Titus. It was the way of the Puritans to discourse on many other portions of the Bible that taught similar doctrines. Here you have much divinity mixed in with the exposition. The fact is, there is much exposition of other portions of Scripture, including 1 and 2 Timothy. Since all other commentaries on Titus are short (except Calvin's sermons on this book), you will gain a great deal more insight into the book of Titus from Taylor than from any other except Calvin.

To demonstrate his clarity, here are his remarks on Titus 1:15:

"Unto the pure, all things are pure" – In this first branch of the verse three general points are to be considered:

(1) Who are meant by "the pure." (2) How all things are pure or impure. (3) How all things are pure to the pure.

"what purity, both in kind and degree, is meant here? All purity is either in the fountain, or derived from the fountain. The former "purity" is in the Creator. Here the latter is meant; not that purity which we had in innocence, but a purity of another quality, such a one as is renewed upon us, the Lord’s beholding us and cleaving to us. This purity then is not set in us by nature, but made ours by grace, and being the purity of our Mediator, it is imputed to us, who shall stand righteous in the sight of God the Father. The persons called pure here are those who are set by faith into Christ, by His blood they are justified, and by His Spirit through means of the Word they are sanctified and reserved unto life everlasting.

The type is of good size, the number of words on a page are not excessive, therefore the reader will not find the 565 pages formidable. Taylor is very readable, very plain, very solid in doctrine, and his outlines are very easy to follow. His use of the Greek is not a hindrance to understanding, but rather since he gives the meaning directly after the Greek word, it is very useful to the reader.

Thomas Taylor 1579-1632, an early Puritan, was a famous preacher at St. Paul’s Cross during the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. His writings were voluminous. His works were praised by Edmund Calamy and Joseph Caryl, the great expositor of Job. Some of his works were so appreciated they were translated into Dutch.

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