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A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude
A practical commentary, or An exposition with notes on the Epistle of Jude. Delivered (for the most part) in sundry weekly lectures at Stoke-Newington in Middlesex. By Thomas Manton, B.D. and minister of Covent-Garden.
London: printed by J.M. for Luke Fawn, 1658
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8. What can we get by sin but a little pleasure? Tit. 3. 3. serving divers lusts and pleasures, this is the great Sorceress that enchants the whole world, the root of all sin, they loved pleasures more then God, 2 Tim. 3. 4. 'tis not imaginable that an intelligent creature should rest in his own action, we aim at somewhat in walking after our own lusts, if we balk that which is honest, it must be profit or pleasure: now that a man should enslave himself forever, and that for a little pleasure, which is base in it self, and lost as soon as enjoyed, is monstrous and absurd: Breve est quod delectat, •ternum quod cruciat; the pleasure is but short, vanishing, but the pain is for ever? and will you for a thing of nought break with God, and forfeit your immortal souls? Oh let it not be.
8. What can we get by sin but a little pleasure? Tit. 3. 3. serving divers lusts and pleasures, this is the great Sorceress that inchants the whole world, the root of all sin, they loved pleasures more then God, 2 Tim. 3. 4. 'tis not imaginable that an intelligent creature should rest in his own action, we aim at somwhat in walking after our own lusts, if we balk that which is honest, it must be profit or pleasure: now that a man should enslave himself forever, and that for a little pleasure, which is base in it self, and lost as soon as enjoyed, is monstrous and absurd: Breve est quod delectat, •ternum quod cruciat; the pleasure is but short, vanishing, but the pain is for ever? and will you for a thing of nought break with God, and forfeit your immortal souls? Oh let it not be.
Let all this now persuade you to deny your lusts, rather then to feed or cherish them, to renounce them, and not to walk after them: There are three degrees of this denial: 1. They must be prevented, and kept from rising. 2. Suppressed, and kept from growth. 3. We must not accomplish them, and if they gain consent, keep them from execution: Suitable to which three degrees, there are three duties, 1. Mortification, that we may prevent them. 2. Watchfulness,