A89503:1038
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Verse 18. How that they told you that there should be Mockers in the last time, walking after their own ungodly lusts.
How that they told you] he meaneth not in word but in writings; they told the Church in general, but the Apostle applieth it to them, places are every where, 1 Tim 4. 1. 2 Tim. 3. 1. Acts 20. 29, 30. [in the last time.] The days when the Gospel was first Preached are so called in a double sense, either with respect to the approaching judgements on the Jews, 1 John 2. 18. Little children now it is the last time, the lease of our mercies was running out a pace; so James telleth the carnal Jews, James 5. 3. Ye have heaped up treasure for the last days, when God was pulling down and plucking up, they were scraping and hoarding up wealth, and so became a greater prey to the destroyer. 2. Or because then the last dispensation began, which God would continue without change unto the worlds end, Heb. 1. 2. He hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son; the Lord hath now fully revealed his mind, and the Doctrine of salvation is put into a settled course, never more to be altered.
HOw that they told you] he meaneth not in word but in writings; they told the Church in general, but the Apostle applyeth it to them, places are every where, 1 Tim 4. 1.