A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

I now come to the last part of their description. [And denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ] observe their sin [denying.] The Object [the Lord Jesus Christ,] who is here described three ways. 1. By his absolute rule and supremacy [Greek or Hebrew] the only Lord. 2. By his Essence, [Greek or Hebrew] God. 3. By his Headship over the Church, [Greek or Hebrew], our Lord Jesus Christ

I now come to the last part of their discription. [And denying the onely Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ] observe their sin [denying.] The Object [the Lord Jesus Christ,] who is here described three ways. 1. By his absolute rule and supremacy 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 the onely Lord. 2. By his Essence, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 God. 3. By his Headship over the Church, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, our Lord Jesus Christ

I shall first vindicate and then open the words, divers take words disjunctively, applying the first clause to the father: the second to the Son: So Erasmus translateth it: God who is that only Lord, and our Lord Jesus Christ: But as Beza observeth: this is not the first time that he is taken tripping in those places, which seem manifestly to assert the Godhead of Christ; briefly then that the whole clause is to be understood of Christ, may be proved by these arguments. 1. Because the parallel place in Peter, from whence this ⟨p. 222⟩seemeth to be taken, maketh mention only of Jesus Christ, where [Greek or Hebrew], the word of absolute Sovereignty is ascribed to him [denying [Greek or Hebrew], the Master that bought them,] 2 Pet. 2. 1. 2. Because to me it seemeth that Jude would lay down all the prerogatives of Christ in his Natures, as God as man: In his relation to the world, so a Master, to the Church, so a Lord, 3. By the tenor of the words in the Original, where there is no new Article to divide them and therefore all these Titles belong to the same person, [Greek or Hebrew]. 4. Many old Copies (as Calvin saith) read thus: denying Christ who is only God and only Lord. 5. Because the heresy of these times struck at Christ, more then God the Father, and only at the Father for Christs sake; and therefore John in his Epistles, speaketh often of those that denied Christ: See