A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

1. What is told to the Church in general, we must apprehend ¹it as told to us. Paul telleth Timothy, and Peter telleth the distressed strangers, and Jude saith they told you: So Heb. 12. 5. the exhortation speaketh to you, &c. As if the Hebrews were the persons to whom the Proverbs were directly written: the Scriptures speak to every age, every Church, every person, no less than to those to whom they were first directed; well then, it showeth us how we should be affected in reading the word, we should read it as a letter written by the hand of God from Heaven to us by name, if an Angel should bring us a letter from Heaven▪ ⟨p. 488⟩certainly we would regard it; the Bible is a Message sent from Heaven to acquaint us with the mind of God, if we own the divine authority of it, why do we regard it no more?

1. What is told to the Church in general, we must apprehend ¹it as told to us. Paul telleth Timothy, and Peter telleth the distressed strangers, and Jude saith they told you: So Heb. 12. 5. the exhortation speaketh to you, &c. As if the Hebrews were the persons to whom the Proverbs were directly written: the Scriptures speak to every age, every Church, every person, no less than to those to whom they were first directed; well then, it sheweth us how we should be affected in reading the word, we should read it as a letter written by the hand of God from Heaven to us by name, if an Angel should bring us a letter from Heaven▪ ⟨p. 488⟩certainly we would regard it; the Bible is a Message sen from Heaven to acquaint us with the mind of God, if we own the divine authority of it, why do we regard it no more?

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