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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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AN EXPOSITION WITH NOTES On the EPISTLE of JUDE. › Verse 22-23
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4. If they err in smaller matters, we must not deal with motes as with beams, and put the wicked and the scrupulous ⟨p. 540⟩in the same rank, nor the gross Heretic, and those that mistake in point of Church order, while the judgement is sound in Fundamentals, and the practice is reformed, we should use meekness till God reveal the same thing, Phil. 3. 15, 16. God hath given them light in most things and those which are most necessary and no time will discover those truths to them whereof they are yet ignorant.
4. If they erre in smaller matters, we must not deal with motes as with beams, and put the wicked and the scrupulous ⟨p. 540⟩in the same rank, nor the gross Heretick, and those that mistake in point of Church order, while the judgement is sound in Fundamentals, and the practice is reformed, we should use meekness till God reveal the same thing, Phil. 3. 15, 16. God hath given them light in most things and those which are most necessary and no time will discover those truths to them whereof they are yet ignorant.
5. The tractable, and those of whom we have any hopes, Rehoboam would deal roughly, and so lost ten tribes. Tertullian was even forced into the tents of the Montanists, by the indiscreet zeal of some who were too forward with censures, and still men are lost that otherwise would be reclaimed; differences are made irreconcilable by the imperious sourness and bitterness of those that manage them, dashing storms wash away the seed, whereas gentle showers refresh the earth, men left without hope grow desperate.
5. The tractable, and those of whom we have any hopes, Rehoboam would deal roughly, and so lost ten tribes. Tertullian was even forced into the tents of the Montanists, by the indiscreet zeal of some who were too forward with censures, and still men are lost that otherwise would be reclaimed; differences are made irreconcileable by the imperious sowreness and bitterness of those that manage them, dashing storms wash away the seed, whereas gentle showers refresh the earth, men left without hope grow desperate.