A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

Now as you love your own Souls beware of this great evil, to this end. 1. Be rooted and grounded in love, Eph. 3. 17. Do not content your selves with flashes and good moods and meltings at a Sermon, but get solid grace and through experiences, glances and sudden affections will come to nothing, Matth. 13. 4. 5. with 20. 21. A tree that hath taken root is in less danger of withering.

Now as you love your own Souls beware of this great evil, to this end. 1. Be rooted and grounded in love, Eph. 3. 17. Do not content your selves with flashes and good moods and meltings at a Sermon, but get solid grace and thorow experiences, glances and suddain affections will come to nothing, Matth. 13. 4. 5. with 20. 21. A tree that hath taken root is in less danger of withering.

2. Increase and grow in love, 1 Thessa. 4. 10. Nothing conduceth to a decay more than contentment with what we have received, every day you should love sin less, self less, world less, but Christ more and more.

3. Observe the first declinings, for these are cause of all the rest, evil is best stopped in the beginning; if when we first began to grow careless, we had taken heed, then it would never have come to this, an heavy body moving downward, vires a•quirit •undo, it gathers strength by running, and still moveth faster and faster, look then to your first breaking off from God, and remitting your watch and spiritual fervour; 'tis easier to crush the egg than to kill the serpent: He that keepeth an house in constant repair, prevents the ruin and fall of it, stop every hole and chink before the mischief spread further.