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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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It serveth to press us to give a distinct glory in believing1 to God the Father: Get a right apprehension of the divine Persons, and the several endearments with which their personal operations are represented. 'Tis said, John 5. 23. That God will have all men honour the Son as they honour the Father. God is most honoured when your thoughts are most distinct and explicit in this matter. Do not forget the Father, you are his gift as well as the Sons purchase and the Spirits charge: If God the Father had not loved you before all worlds, Jesus Christ would not have redeemed you; and if Christ had not redeemed you, the Spirit would never sanctify you: and as the Spirit will not work unless you look upon him as Christs Spirit, John 16. 14. He shall glorify me, for he shall receive of mine; so Christ came to glorify the Father, and to finish his ⟨p. 52⟩work, John 17. 4. Bless them and praise them all then. If you receive any thing, see the Fathers bounty in it, the freeness and everlastingness of his Love stamped upon what you have. So if you want any thing, holiness, comfort, grace, pardon, reflect not only upon the fullness of Christs merit▪ but the freeness of the Fathers love: You deal with a God of bowels and bounty; Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, all are yours. There is a fond affectation in some, to carry all things in the Name of Christ, even such acts wherein the Father is most concerned▪ as the former Age carried all Dispensations in the Name of God Almighty, without any distinct reflection upon God the Son, in whom the Father will be honoured, and by whom we have an access to the Father: So many in this Age, in their popular discourses and prayers, carry all things in the Name of God the Son, and with a fond and luscious affectation ingeminate the Name, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ▪ so that the honour and adoration due to the other Persons is neglected and forgotten; whereas Christ is to be acknowledged Lord in all Tongues and among all Nations, to the glory of God the Father,