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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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2. Prize nothing that thou return to God, unless there be love in it. We accept a small gift where the party loveth, and otherwise the greatest is refused: If I give my body to be burned, and have not love, &c. 1 Cor. 13. 1. Love is an act of grace by it self; other duties are not acts of grace, unless ⟨p. 118⟩they come from love; as alms, fasting, prayer, Martyrdom, &c. they are all nothing; [Greek or Hebrew] (saith the Apostle) I am not only little, but nothing. On the other side, small things are made great by love; as a cup of cold water, a poor woman's mite, they are accepted as coming from love.
2. Prize nothing that thou return to God, unless there be love in it. We accept a small gift where the party loveth, and otherwise the greatest is refused: If I give my body to be burned, and have not love, &c. 1 Cor. 13. 1. Love is an act of grace by it self; other duties are not acts of grace, unless ⟨p. 118⟩they come from love; as alms, fasting, prayer, Martyrdom, &c. they are all nothing; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 (saith the Apostle) I am not only little, but nothing. On the other side, small things are made great by love; as a cup of cold water, a poor womans mite, they are accepted as coming from love.
So much for the matter of the Prayer; We come now to the manner or degree of enjoyment, [Be multiplied:] From whence note, That we should not seek grace at the hands of God, but the increase and multiplication of it. In1 managing this Point, I shall first give you Reasons to press you to look after growth in grace: Secondly, I shall give you some Observations concerning it; and so thirdly, Come to some Application.