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First, That which is good and laudable. Thus Jude commands to contend for the Faith once delivered; To be in an agony for it, vers. 4. And we must in our places strive, and ever zealously quarrel with wicked men, for the honour and glory of God. Now though this Contention and Striving be not intended here, yet I shall speak a little to it in the close, because there are those who account all zeal and fervency for God, to be quarrelling and making tumults: As Jer. 15.10. Woe is me that my mother bear me, because I am a man of contention. Why so? He reproved them for their sins: He spake contrary to their carnal humours, and thereupon he was thought to be the only troubler of the Kingdom. But

First, That which is good and laudable. Thus Jude commands to contend for the Faith once delivered; To be in an agony for it, vers. 4. And we must in our places strive, and ever zealously quarrell with wicked men, for the honour and glory of God. Now though this Contention and Striving be not intended here, yet I shall speak a little to it in the close, because there are those who account all zeal and fervency for God, to be quarrelling and making tumults: As Jer. 15.10. Wo is me that my mother bear me, because I am a man of contention. Why so? He reproved them for their sinnes: He spake contrary to their carnal humours, and thereupon he was thought to be the only troubler of the Kingdom. But

¹Secondly, Their is a sinful and ungodly Striving. And that may be about a two-fold Object. Either in Civil worldly things, quarrelling and wrangling about them, or in Religious matters. Their is a desire in some, to be cavilling against the Truth, and to be gain-saying those Duties that are commanded; or needlessly striving with idle Disputes, that make not for godliness: Of which the Apostle speaketh fully, Tit. 3.7. A great disease in these times.