A89503:1043
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
I Answer, 1. Either by way of aggravation, that there should be scoffers then, when God had sealed Doctrine by the coming of his Son, beyond which godly men did not desire a greater confirmation.
I Answer, 1. Either by way of aggravation, that there should be scoffers then, when God had sealed Doctrine by the comming of his Son, beyond which godly men did not desire a greater confirmation.
2. Or [Greek or Hebrew], by way of distinction, more Mockers in the last time rather than another; partly because the world was still continued, notwithstanding the threatenings of its destruction, 2 Pet. 3. 4. partly because the holy people were then divided, Jews and Christians, and times of division prove times of Atheism and scoffing: partly because carnal hopes of a ten poral Messiah were disappointed, ⟨p. 487⟩and by that means their assent was much weakened as to principles of faith.
2. Or 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, by way of distinction, more Mockers in the last time rather than another; partly because the world was still continued, notwithstanding the threatnings of its destruction, 2 Pet. 3. 4. partly because the holy people were then devided, Jews and Christians, and times of division prove times of Atheism and scoffing: partly because carnal hopes of a ten poral Messiah were dissappointed, ⟨p. 487⟩and by that means their assent was much weakned as to principles of faith.