He proceedeth to exhort them to puritie, and to receiue him into their charitie. 3. Which
lest they should thinke he speaketh to accuse them, he commendeth them highly, both for their
behauiour toward Titus, and for their penance which they had done vpon his other epistle.
1. HAVING therfore these promises, my Dearest, let vs cleanse our selues from al
inquination of the flesh and spirit, perfiting sanctification in the feare of God.
2. Receiue vs. We haue hurt no man, we haue corrupted no man, we haue circumuented
no man.
3. I speake not to your condemnation. For I said before that you are in our harts
to die together and to liue together.
4. Much is my confidence with you, much is my glorying for you. I am replenished
with consolation; I doe exceedingly abound in ioy in al our tribulation.
5. For also when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we suffered
al tribulation: without, combats; within, feares.
6. But God that comforteth the humble, did comfort vs, in the comming of Titus.
7. And not only in his comming, but also in the consolation, wherwith he was
comforted among you, reporting to vs your desire, your weeping, your emulation for me, so that
I reioyced the more.
8. For although I made you sorie in an epistle, it repenteth me not: albeit it
repented me, seeing that the same epistle (although but for a time) did make you sorie.
9. Now I am glad: not because you were made sorie, but because you were made sorie
to penance. For you were made sorie according to God, that in nothing you should suffer detriment
by vs.
10. For
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Contrition or sorrowful lamenting of our offenses, is the cause of saluation. Not
only faith then saueth, as the Heretikes affirme.
the sorrow that is according to God, worketh penance vnto saluation that is
stable: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.
11. For behold this very thing, that you were made sorie according to God, how great
carefulnes it worketh in you: yea defense, yea indignation, yea feare, yea desire, yea emulation,
yea reuenge, in al things you haue shewed your selues to be vndefiled in the matter.
12. Therfore although I wrote to you, not for him that did the iniurie, nor for him
that suffered: but to manifest our carefulnes that we haue for you before God,
13. therfore we are comforted. But in our consolation, we did the more aboundantly
reioyce vpon the ioy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed of al you.
14. And if to him I gloried any thing of you, I am not confounded: but as we speake
al things to you in truth, so also our glorying that was to Titus, is made a truth,
15. and his bowels are more aboundantly toward you: remembring the obedience of
you al, how with feare and trembling you receiued him.
16. I reioyce that in al things I haue confidence in you.
ANNOTATIONS.
Cʜᴀᴘ. VII.
9. Sorie to penance.)
Contrition for a man's sinne worketh saluation.
The sorrow which is a man taketh for worldly losses or any temporal aduersarie, is not
here commended, but that which is & ought to be in al men for their sinnes past, which
is called here, Sorrow towards God & for penance, otherwise called Contrition, & is a
thing exceedingly requisit & much praised, the fruits whereof are these that the
Apostle reckneth, working saluation. Which doctrine is farre distant from *Luther's,
and Caluin's, and such wicked Libertines, that teach contrition to be altogether a
meanes to make sinners either hypocrites, or to put them in dispaire.
*To. 2. in assert. art. 6. a Leone damnat.