A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

1. To himself, Eph. 5. 27. that he might present it to himself a glorious Church, in that place our interest in Christ and his interest in us is represented by marriage, in the world we are contracted, but there presented, actually brought to him when fitted for his use; as Esther when she was chosen out from among the Virgins to be wife to the King, she was first purified and supplied with garments, odours, and sweet▪ ointments out of the Kings house, and then when the Months of her purification were accomplished, was presented to him, Esther 2. from 9. to 12. verse, so we are chosen, elected to grace, and then purified and prepared, but at the Kings cost, we have garments of Salvation out of Christs ward-Robe, and odours and sweet ointments out of his Store-house, and then when spot and wrinkle is done away, we are presented to him, he is said to do it, because he hath the main stroke in this work.

1. To himself, Eph. 5. 27. that he might present it to himself a glorious Church, in that place our interest in Christ and his interest in us is represented by marriage, in the world we are contracted, but there presented, actually brought to him when fitted for his use; as Esther when she was chosen out from among the Virgins to be wife to the King, she was first purified and supplyed with garments, odours, and sweet▪ ointments out of the Kings house, and then when the Moneths of her purification were accomplished, was presented to him, Esther 2. from 9. to 12. verse, so we are chosen, elected to grace, and then purified and prepared, but at the Kings cost, we have garments of Salvation out of Christs ward-Robe, and odours and sweet ointments out of his Store-house, and then when spot and wrinckle is done away, we are presented to him, he is said to do it, because he hath the main stroke in this work.