SERMON. 



xaTar>50">3? xola TroAtji 'rr^ia^vri^H^, u<; lyu cot, ^taTa|a^»]i'. 



For this Cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in 

 order the things that are wanting, and ordain Elders in every City, 

 as I had appointed thee. — Titus i. 5, 



This epistle is one of the three, not unfitly styled 

 the hierarchical epistles, de statu ecclesiastico com- 

 fositce, as Tertullian* speaks : being so many 

 rescripts apostolical to Timothy and Titus, (the 

 one desired by St. Paul to stay at Ephesus, Pri- 

 mate of Asia; the other left in Crete, Metropo- 

 litan of that,t and the neighbour islands;) direct- 

 ing them,:}: how they ought to behave themselves 

 in the house of God, which is the church of the 

 living God. True and genuine decretal epistles; 



* Adv. Marcion. 1. 5. in fine. 



t Vide S. Hieron. in Catalog. Script. Eccles. 



X 1 Tim. iii. 15. 



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