A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

1. [These be they who separate themselves] [Greek or Hebrew], the old English Translation had it thus, these are the Makers of Sects, the word signifieth those which disterminate and pluck up the bounds which God hath set The Apostle meaneth those that without any necessity and warrant from God, cut off themselves from the communion of the Church.

1. [These be they who separate themselves] 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the old English Translation had it thus, these are the Makers of Sects, the word signifieth those which disterminate and pluck up the bounds which God hath set The Apostle meaneth those that without any necessity and warrant from God, cut off themselves from the communion of the Church.

2 Sensual, [Greek or Hebrew], animal or Soul-men, men that have nothing but a reasonable Soul which being corrupted, mindeth only the things of the flesh, and so noteth fleshly ⟨p. 491⟩corrupt men Tertullian when leavened with Montanism, called the Orthodox psychicos because of they did not with Montanus, condemn second marriages; the word is notable, it will be some advantage to us to consider it a little more fully: 'Tis three times used in Scripture, as in 1 Cor. 2. 14. the natural man [Greek or Hebrew], who is opposed to [Greek or Hebrew] the spiritual men. So in James 3. 15, the wisdom that is from above is earthly, sensual, [[Greek or Hebrew]] devilish▪ and then in this place, the word (as I said before) properly signifieth those that have a Soul, and [Greek or Hebrew] is elsewhere used for the sensitive Soul, as where the Apostle distinguisheth of body, Soul, and Spirit, 1 Thes. 5. 23 [Greek or Hebrew], where by [Greek or Hebrew] spirit, he understandeth the intellectual or rational part, by [Greek or Hebrew] Soul, the mere animal or sensitive part, or that sensual appetite which we have in common with the beasts, by [Greek or Hebrew] body, that which is commonly understood by it, the body as it is the Organ and Instrument of the Soul, and this is one reason why [Greek or Hebrew] cometh to signify sensual the other is because man being left to himself to mere Soul-light or Soul-inclinations, can bring forth no other fruits then such as are carnal; for whilst men are destitute of sanctifying grace, sense and the flesh do reign in their full liberty and power: Well then, these seducers were sensual given up to brutish lusts and practises; they taxed others as carnal, and now none so libidinous, impure and carnal, at they.