A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

I have done with the Preface, I come now to the first instance produced [How that the Lord having saved the people out of the Land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not] [Greek or Hebrew], the term is of an honourable use in this place [the people] for the peculiar people of God, the holy and elect Nation▪ that had the Law and the Covenants of Promise, this people after they were delivered, and that by so great and solemn a deliverance as that out of the Land of Egypt, were afterwards destroyed; so that 'tis ill standing upon privileges: Though many of them to whom the Apostle wrote, had renounced Gentilism, and were (as it were) come out of Egypt, and made God's people by visible ⟨p. 251⟩profession; yet after all this, they might be destroyed in case of disproportionable practise, or disobedience to God in that profession. Of Israel's destruction, see Num. 14. 37. 1 Cor. 10. 10. Libertine Christians shall fare as bad as obstinate Jews, that's the drift of his Argument.

I have done with the Preface, I come now to the first instance produced [How that the Lord having saved the people out of the Land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not] 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the term is of an honourable use in this place [the people] for the peculiar people of God, the holy and elect Nation▪ that had the Law and the Covenants of Promise, this people after they were delivered, and that by so great and solemn a deliverance as that out of the Land of Aegypt, were afterwards destroyed; so that 'tis ill standing upon priviledges: Though many of them to whom the Apostle wrote, had renounced Gentilism, and were (as it were) come out of Aegypt, and made God's people by visible ⟨p. 251⟩profession; yet after all this, they might be destroyed in case of disproportionable practise, or disobedience to God in that profession. Of Israel's destruction, see