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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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2. We should not be troubled at what is foretold, monsters1 expected are not wondered at, expectation as it deflowreth any good thing that we expect, so it fore armeth the mind against evil, John 16. 4. these things I have told you, that when the time shall come ye may remember. I have told you, why? what good will that do? Ans. we are the better prepared to entertain evils when we expect them before they come, and the evil to which the mind is accustomed seemeth the less; again, we have an experience of Gods truth in the prediction, which will help us to believe and depend upon other promises: finally it assureth us that the Lord hath a hand and a Counsel in all our troubles, for he told us of them before.
2. We should not be troubled at what is foretold, monsters1 expected are not wondered at, expectation as it deflowreth any good thing that we expect, so it fore armeth the mind against evil, John 16. 4. these things I have told you, that when the time shall come ye may remember. I have told you, why? what good will that do? Ans. we are the better prepared to entertain evils when we expect them before they come, and the evil to which the mind is accustomed seemeth the less; again, we have an experience of Gods truth in the prediction, which will help us to believe and depend upon other promises: finally it assureth us that the Lord hath a hand and a Counsell in all our troubles, for hee told us of them before.
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3. That the Scriptures speak much of the evil of the latter 1