A89503:467
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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4. Christ may be denied, though there be a stricter Profession of his Name, and some faint love and relish of his sweetness. Besides the loose National Profession of Christianity, which God in a wise Providence ordaineth for the greater safety and preservation of his Church, there may be a strict personal profession, taken up from inward conviction, and some taste and feeling, and yet Christ may be denied for all this; as some that had tasted the good Word, turned aside to the world, and so are said to crucify him, rather then to profess him, Heb. 6. 4, 5, 6. The Apostle intendeth some Hebrews that did mix Moses with Christ and Judaism, to save their goods: So elsewhere he speaketh of some, that had a form of godliness, but denied the power thereof, 2 Tim. 3. 5. By the Form, meaning the strictest garb of Religion then in fashion: this is to deny Christ, when we deny the Virtue and Power of that Religion ⟨p. 239⟩which he hath established, and will not suffer it to enter upon our hearts.
4. Christ may be denyed, though there be a stricter Profession of his Name, and some faint love and relish of his sweetness. Besides the loose National Profession of Christianity, which God in a wise Providence ordaineth for the greater safety and preservation of his Church, there may be a strict personal profession, taken up from inward conviction, and some tast and feeling, and yet Christ may be denyed for all this; as some that had tasted the good Word, turned aside to the world, and so are said to crucifie him, rather then to profess him, Heb. 6. 4, 5, 6. The Apostle intendeth some Hebrews that did mix Moses with Christ and Judaism, to save their goods: So elsewhere he speaketh of some, that had a form of godliness, but denyed the power thereof, 2 Tim. 3. 5. By the Form, meaning the strictest garb of Religion then in fashion: this is to deny Christ, when we deny the Virtue and Power of that Religion ⟨p. 239⟩which he hath established, and will not suffer it to enter upon our hearts.