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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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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, Psal. 86. 11. Leave men to themselves and they will do as foolishly as a man that is to gather a posy for his friend and filleth it fuller of stinking weeds than flowers, we shall mingle many unfavoury worldly thoughts, or deal as basely and affrontingly with God, as if a man under the Law should mingle Sulphur and Brimstone with the sweet perfumes that were in the Censer, lust will be interposing in prayer, and out-talking grace; therefore that we may be reverend and heedful, we must use the help of the Spirit, praying in the Spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance, Eph. 6. 18.
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, Psal. 86. 11. Leave men to themselves and they will do as foolishly as a man that is to gather a posie for his friend and filleth it fuller of stinking weeds than flowers, we shall mingle many unfavoury worldly thoughts, or deal as basely and affrontingly with God, as if a man under the Law should mingle Sulphure and Brimstone with the sweet perfumes that were in the Censer, lust will be interposing in prayer, and out-talking grace; therefore that we may be reverend and heedful, we must use the help of the Spirit, praying in the Spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance, Eph. 6. 18.