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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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When God first called his people out of Babylon by Luther's reformation, and the Christian religion began to be restored to its pristine purity, there was not only a Roman party to persecute, but a fanatical party to perplex the estate of reformation, and retard the course of the Gospel, as histories do abundantly declare, especially Sleidan in his Commentaries.
When God first called his people out of Babylon by Luthers reformation, and the Christian religion began to be restored to its pristine purity, there was not only a Roman party to persecute, but a fanatical party to perplex the estate of reformation, and retard the course of the Gospel, as histories do abundantly declare, especially Sleidan in his Commentaries.
What hath been our late experience, we all know, and have cause to bewail, as soon as we were freed from our hard task-masters, and a door of hope began to be opened to us, • swarm of libertines have arisen among us, and do every day increase in number, power and malice, and under various forms oppugn the unquestionable interests of Jesus Christ, to the great scandal of reformation and the saddening of the hearts of the godly. We seem to be ripe for a judgment, but from what corner the storm shall blow we cannot tell; some fear a return of Popery, and that a second deluge of Antichristianism shall overwhelm the Western Churches; the Papists (I confess▪ are dangerous, but the great and next fear I think to be from libertines and a yokeless generation of men who are most reproachful to religion and most troublesome.
What hath been our late experience, we all know, and have cause to bewail, assoon as wee were freed from our hard task-masters, and a door of hope began to be opened to us, • swarm of libertines have arisen among us, and do every day increase in number, power and malice, and under various forms oppugn the unquestionable interests of Iesus Christ, to the great scandal of reformation and the sadning of the hearts of the godly. We seem to be ripe for a judgment, but from what corner the storm shall blow we cannot tell; some fear a return of Popery, and that a second deluge of Antichristianisme shall overwhelm the Western Churches; the Papists (I confess are dangerous, but the great and next fear I think to be from libertines and a yokeless generation of men who are most reproachful to religion and most troublesom.