A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

3. Affiance, resting, waiting upon God for the accomplishment of this blessedness, though not without some doubts and fears as to our own interest, though you cannot say 'tis yours, yet you will cast your self upon the mercy of God in Christ as 'tis in the Text. Looking for the mercy of Christ, you dare venture your Soul in that bottom, this is that committing your selves to him as unto a merciful and faithful Creator, which the Apostle speaketh of, 1 Pet. 4. 18. You will go on with your work and put your selves in Gods hand for your eternal happiness, because he is merciful, faithful: See also Rom. 2. 7.

3. Meditate on it often, med ta•ion is a temperate ecstasy, a survey of the Land of promise, God biddeth Abraham take a view of Canaan, Gen. 13. 14, 15. Surely the more we lift up our thoughts in the contemplation of this blessed estate, the more lively will our hopes be, if every morning we spent a thought this way, it would season the heart against the love of present things, the morning is an emblem of the Resurrection, when we awake out of the sleep of death, and the day cometh which will never have night more, Psal. 17. 15. So in time of troubles we should ⟨p. 534⟩be reckoning upon a better estate, Rom. 8. 18, so when you are by bodily sickness summoned to the grave, and you are going down to converse with worms and skulls, then think of a blessed eternity, Job 19. 26.

3. Meditate on it often, med taion is a temperate extasie, a survey of the Land of promise, God biddeth Abraham take a view of Canaan,