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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. An hatred of sin; Psal. 97. 10. Ye that l•ve the Lord hate an evil: With love to the chiefest good, there will be an hatred of the chiefest evil. Friends have common loves (as I said) and common aversations: Upon every carnal motion doth thy heart recoil upon thee, and say, How can I do this wick dness, and sin against God? Gen. 39. 9. or else, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? or after such a deliverance as this, &c. Ezra 9. 13. Love to God will be interposing and crossing every carnal motion.
1. An hatred of sin; Psal. 97. 10. Ye that l•ve the Lord hate an evil: With love to the chiefest good, there will be an hatred of the chiefest evil. Friends have common loves (as I said) and common aversations: Upon every carnal motion doth thy heart recoyl upon thee, and say, How can I do this wick dness, and sin against God? Gen. 39. 9. or else, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? or after such a deliverance as this, &c. Ezra 9. 13. Love to God will be interposing and crossing every carnal motion.
2. By a delight in obedience: 1 John 5. 3. This is love, 1that we keep his Commandments, and his Commandments are not grievous. Nothing is difficult and tedious to him that hath any affection to his work. As the Prophet cured the bitterness of the wild gourds by casting in meal; so mingle but a little love with your work, and the bitterness is gone.