Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Timothy 1:14

14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant , with faith, and love which is in Christ Jesus .

The free love of God towards me, in justifying such a guilty creature, and sanctifying such an unholy creature, and after calling me to the office of an Apostle, fitting me for it, and trusting me with that great work and employment, abounded beyond all measure and possibility of Expression.

Christ working Faith in me, inabling me to receive him as the Son of God, and my Lord and Saviour, and to love him whom I formerly thought I ought to do much against; and his Disciples, whom I formerly haled to Death, of whom I made havock, persecuting them to death. He mentions Faith and Love, the two principal Graces, in opposition to the reigning sins in his unconverted state: Faith in the Doctrine of the Gospel, in opposition to his former Ignorance and Infidelity; and Love to Christ and Believers, in opposition to his former Rage and Cruelty against them. And these Graces were from Christ the fruits of his Merit, and Holy Spirit.