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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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1. The work must be begun, here the foundation is laid as soon as we are converted unto God, 1 Cor 6. 11.
2. This work increaseth daily more and more, 1 Thess. 5. 23. 24. we are not faultless, but Christ will not rest till we be faultless, he is sanctifying further and further, that we may be blameless at his coming, he will pursue the work close till it be done.
3. 'Tis so carried on for the present, that our justification and sanctification may help one another, the benefit of justification would be much lessened if our sanctification were complete, and our sanctification is carried on the more kindly because the benefit of justification needeth so often to be renewed and applied to us; […] inherent righteousness were more perfect, imputed righteousness would be less set by, in this great imperfection under which we now are, we are too apt to fetch all our peace and comfort from our own works, to the great neglect of Christ and his righteousness, therefore doth the Lord by little and little carry on the work of grace, that by the continual sense of ⟨p. 553⟩our defects, and the often making use of Justification we may have the higher apprehensions of Gods Love in accepting us in Christ, the relics of sin trouble us as long as we are in the world, and so the benefit is made new to us, which otherwise would wax old and out of date, and the benefit being made new, increaseth our love to God, Luc. 7. 47. and putteth us upon the study of holiness.
3. 'Tis so carried on for the present, that our justification and sanctification may help one another, the benefit of justification would be much lessened if our sanctification were compleat, and our sanctification is carried on the more kindly because the benefit of justification needeth so often to be renewed and applyed to us; inherent righteousness were more perfect, imputed righteousness would be less set by, in this great imperfection under which we now are, we are too apt to fetch all our peace and comfort from our own works, to the great neglect of Christ and his righteousness, therefore doth the Lord by little and little carry on the work of grace, that by the continual sense of