Paul a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to declare the faith which recommends men to the divine favour, and to convince them of that truth, which leads to piety,

and gives the expectation of eternal life, which the God of veracity promised so many ages ago;

and has in due time manifested by the preaching of his word, which is committed to me according to the commandment of God our saviour:

who ought to be curb'd, who pervert whole families, teaching things which they ought not, for sordid lucre.

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,