A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

Here the Apostle cometh to exhort, as all along, with the description of Seducers he intermingleth exhortation, the sum of the exhortation is to quicken them to the use of the means of perseverance and constancy. [Build up your selves, [Greek or Hebrew]] the word signifieth the going on with a building already begun, and fitly noteth that care they should take for the growth of their spiritual estate [your selves, [Greek or Hebrew]] Some translate i•vicem, build up one another, that I confess is the Apostles▪ •nte••, but first to press them to a care of their own Salvation, and then mutually to care for one another▪ See 1 Thes. 5. 11. Comfort your selves together and edify one another, as ye also do, and possibly this is spoken here by way of opposition to those that separate themselves [in your most holy Faith] By faith may be meant either the grate of saith of the doctrine of faith. I rather suppose the latter, that true and pure Religion which they had learned from the Apostles, which was the foundation already laid▪ unto which they should keep close: If it be meant of •aith the grace, the• he persuadeth them to progress and to lay hold on the superstructure of good works and final perseverance. Matth. 7. 24. This faith is called [most holy] in opposition to the profane mysteries of the Gnostics and Valentinians▪ 'tis an holy rule, and maketh us holy, John 17. 17. Sanctify them by thy truth, thy word •• truth. [praying in the Holy Ghost] [Greek or Hebrew] may be ••nder•d, ••, with, or by the Holy Ghost, that is, by hi• motion and inspiration and gifts and graces received from him; elsewhere the Holy