A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

6. 'Tis lusts that hinder the peace of the world, our own peace: how quietly and happily would men live, if they were more mortified? Men desire more then they have, and so are made poor, not by want, so much as desire; he that expects little, is soon satisfied: 'tis our own passions that raise a storm in the soul: a man that is vile and little in his own eyes, when others contemn and slight him, they do but ratify his private opinion of himself, and who can be angry with others, because they are of the same judgement with our selves? Take away the lust, and the trouble ceaseth: What need Haman be troubled that Mordecai did not bow the knee, but that he looked for it? Nay, Lusts trouble our p•ace of Conscience: Lusts let alone, end in gross sins, and gross sins in desperation: love of pleasures, if uncontrolled will end in drunkenness, or adultery and envy in murder and violence: sins unchecked, grow licentious and unruly: Judas allowed his covetousness and it brought him to betray his Master, and that Brought him to the halter: Gehazi was first blasted with covetousness, and then with leprosy. and so became a burden to himself: Ananias and Sapphira taken off by a sudden judgement: The devil loveth by l•st to bring us to sin, and by sin to shame, and by ⟨p. 474⟩shame to horror and despair; so that if we walk after our lusts, it proveth a sad walk in the issue: Again it disturbeth ou• peace with others, these Libertines were yokeless, and could not endure restraints, because wedded to their own lusts, 'tis not opinions divide the world, so much as lusts and interests.

6. 'Tis lusts that hinder the peace of the world, our own peace: how quietly and happily would men live, if they were more mortified? Men desire more then they have, and so are made poor, not by want, so much as desire; he that expects little, is soon satisfied: 'tis our own passions that raise a storm in the soul: a man that is vile and little in his own eyes, when others contemn and slight him, they do but ratifie his private opinion of himself, and who can be angry with others, because they are of the same judgement with our selves? Take away the lust, and the trouble ceaseth: What need Haman be troubled that Mordecai did not bow the knee, but that he looked for it? Nay, Lusts trouble our p•ace of Conscience: Lusts let alone, end in gross sins, and gross sins in desperation: love of pleasures, if uncontolled will end in drunkenness, or adultery and envy in murder and violence: sins unchecked, grow licntios and unruly: Judas allowed his covetousness and it brought him to betray his Master, and that Brought him to the halter: Gehazi was first blasted with covetousness, and then with leprosie. and so became a burden to himself: Ananias and Sapira taken off by a sudden judgemet: The divel loveth by lst to bring us to sin, and by sin to shame, and by