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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. If you would persevere in the love of God and a good frame of heart, revive your hopes, and set the Soul a looking1 and a longing for eternal life, if we keep the rejoicing of ⟨p. 532⟩our hope firm to the end then we are safe, Heb. 3. 6. Courtiers are more polite in their manners than ordinary subjects, because they are more in their Princes eye and company; the oftener we are in Gods Court the more holy: Well, then be as much as you can in actual expectation of this blessedness.
2. If you would persevere in the love of God and a good frame of heart, revive your hopes, and set the Soul a looking1 and a longing for eternal life, if we keep the rejoycing of ⟨p. 532⟩our hope firm to the end then we are safe, Heb. 3. 6. Courtiers are more polite in their manners than ordinary subjects, because they are more in their Princes eye and company; the oftner we are in Gods Court the more holy: Well, then be as much as you can in actual expectation of this blessedness.
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To this end, 1. Believe it, there is a mist upon eternity to a carnal heart, they are led by sense and reason, and believe no more than is evident to a natural principle, but now faith is the evidence of things not seen, Heb. 11. 1