to chuse such as are without reproach, married to but one wife, whose children are obedient, not accused of debauchery, nor unruly.

but a lover of hospitality, humane, prudent, just, holy, temperate;

to the pure all things are pure: but to corrupt infidels nothing is pure; whose very mind and conscience is polluted.

they make a profession of knowing God; but in fact they deny him, being execrably incredulous, and utter strangers to all virtue.

but what is agreeable to sound doctrine: advise the aged to be prudent, grave, temperate, sound in faith,

but to lectures on virtue, that they may teach the young women prudence, to love their husbands,

entirely obsequious without grumbling. not to pilfer, but to show the strictest fidelity; that they may do honour to the doctrine of God our saviour in all things.

but when the kindness and love of God our saviour display'd itself to mankind,

he saved us not in consideration of any virtuous actions which we had done, but out of his meer mercy, by the baptism of regeneration, he form'd us anew, by the plentiful effusion of the holy spirit,

but avoid frivolous enquiries about genealogies, and vexatious disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.