A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

Order is necessary every where but especially in an host, there every one must keep in his rank and station, thus the Stars have their courses, Judges 5. 20. and the clouds their courses, Job 37. 12. yea, the Grasshoppers march as an army, Joel 2. 15. The next thing that showeth the wisdom of God, is their fitness for use and service, the work mans skill is as much commended in the use of an instrument as in the making and framing of it; the upper Heaven'• fitted to be the everlasting mansion of the Saints, the middle Heaven to give us light, and heat and influence, the air, or lower Heaven, for breath, the earth for habitation, the Seas for navigation, the herbs and plants for food and medicine, &c. Look upon the bodies of living creatures and tell me if there be not a wise God; Galen saith there are 600 muscles in the body of man, and every one fitted for ten uses; so for bones, nerves, arteries and veins, whosoever observeth their use, situation, and correspondence of them, cannot but fall into admiration of the wisdom of the Maker, who hath thus exactly▪ framed all things at first out of nothing, and still out of the froth of the blood: The wisdom of men and Angels cannot mend the ⟨p. 557⟩least thing in a fly; the figure, colour, quality, quantity, of every worm, and every flower, with what exactness is it ordered? as if God had nothing else to do but to bring forth such a creature into the world as the product of his infinite Wisdom.

Order is necessary every where but especially in an hoast, there every one must keep in his rank and station, thus the Stars have their courses, Judges 5. 20. and the clouds their courses, Job 37. 12. yea, the Grashoppers march as an army, Joel 2. 15. The next thing that sheweth the wisdom of God, is their fitness for use and service, the work mans skill is as much commended in the use of an instrument as in the making and framing of it; the upper Heaven' fitted to be the everlasting mansion of the Saints, the middle Heaven to give us light, and heat and influence, the air, or lower Heaven, for breath, the earth for habitation, the Seas for navigation, the herbs and plants for food and medicine, &c. Look upon the bodies of living creatures and tell me if there be not a wise God; Galen saith there are 600 muscles in the body of man, and every one fitted for ten uses; so for bones, nerves, arteries and veins, whosoever observeth their use, scituation, and correspondence of them, cannot but fall into admiration of the wisdom of the Maker, who hath thus exactly framed all things at first out of nothing, and still out of the froth of the blood: The wisdom of men and Angels cannot mend the