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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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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. With confidence, when we come in a child-like manner and call God father, Rom. 8. 16. We have received the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba Father: Usually we do not mind this part of the Spirits help in Prayer, we look to gifts and enlargements, but not to this child-like confidence, that we maybe able to call God father without blasphemy and reproach, tis an easy matter to language it with our mouths, but to have the sense of our adoption in our hearts is a difficult thing, sometimes the Spirit witnesseth it more explicitly by expressions, as if it were said when we go to prayer, Be of good cheer, thy sins are pardoned, God is thy God at other times by impressions or more secret instincts, if not by working child like confidence yet child like affection, optando si non affirmando, that we may call God Father by option and choice, if not by direct affirmation or a clear sense of our adoption.
2. With confidence, when we come in a child-like manner and call God father, Rom. 8. 16. We have received the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba Father: Usually we do not minde this part of the Spirits help in Prayer, we look to gifts and inlargements, but not to this child-like confidence, that we maybe able to cal God father without blasphemy and reproach, tis an easie matter to language it with our mouths, but to have the sense of our adoption in our hearts is a difficult thing, sometimes the Spirit witnesseth it more explicetly by expressions, as if it were said when we go to prayer, Be of good cheer, thy sins are pardoned, God is thy God at other times by impressions or more secret instincts, if not by working child like confidence yet child like affection, optando si non affirmando, that we may call God Father by option and choise, if not by direct affirmation or a clear sense of our adoption.
2. With reverence, that we may be serious and awful, God is best seen in the light of his own Spirit; the Heathens could say non loquendum de Deo sine lumine, we need light from God when we come to speak of or to God. That sense of the Lords greatness and those fresh and awful thoughts that we have of his Majesty in prayer they are stirred up in us by the Holy Ghost, he uniteth and gathereth our hearts together, that they may not be ravelled and flittered abroad by impertinent and vain thoughts,