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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
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.
2 The fault and crime of the Schism is not always in those that do actually separate and withdraw, but in those that cause it; a man threateneth death to his wife, hereupon she separateth, not she, but he maketh the separation; Rome obstinately continuing her corruptions, and threatening death to those that warn her, the cause of separation is in Rome, not in us; strings in tune must not be brought down to strings out of tune, but the other set up to them; Go not thou to them (saith God to the Prophet) but let them return to thee.
2 The fault and crime of the Schism is not always in those that do actually separate and withdraw, but in those that cause it; a man threatneth death to his wife, hereupon she separateth, not she, but he maketh the separation; Rome obstinately continuing her corruptions, and threatning death to those that warn her, the cause of separation is in Rome, not in us; strings in tune must not be brought down to strings out of tune, but the other set up to them; Go not thou to them (saith God to the Prophet) but let them return to thee.
3. Though th•se that separate be the fewer yet that nothing varieth the case; Noah and eight persons went into the Ark, and left the world in infidelity; Lot got out of Sodom with one family; Elijah was left alone to contest with Baals Priests, not the greater, but the better part is to be regarded; Jacobs family was fewer then the Canaanites, and Israel less then the rest of the world; Gods witnesses at the first may be but a very handful.
3. Though th•se that separate be the fewer yet that nothing varyeth the case; Noah and eight persons went into the Ark, and left the world in infidelity; Lot got out of Sodom with one family; Elijah was left alone to contest with Baals Priests, not the greater, but the better part is to be regarded; Jacobs family was fewer then the Cananites, and Israel less then the rest of the world; Gods witnesses at the first may be but a very handful.