“The one preach Christ of contention, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds”
… That is, those that preached of envy and strife, and not of good will to Christ, to the Gospel, to the souls of men, or to the apostle; and though they preached Christ, yet not sincerely or "purely"; not but that they delivered the sincere milk of the word, and preached the pure Gospel of Christ, without any mixture and adulteration; but then they did not preach it with a sincere heart, and a pure intention; for this respects not the doctrine they preached, but their views in it, which were not honest & upright; they did not preach Christ from a principle of love to his person, and from an inward experience of the power of his Gospel, & a zealous affection for it, & firm attachment to it, & with a view to the glory of God, the honor of Christ, & the good of immortal souls; but were influenced by avarice, ambition, & envy”.
