A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

Well then, 1▪ It informeth us, that there may be danger after deliverance; there are strange changes in providence, Man in his best estate is altogether vanity, Psal. 39. When you are at your best, as the Sun at the highest, there may be a Declension.

2. 'Tis a warning to those that enjoy mercies; Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto you: The next judgement will be more violent. There are some special sins which you should beware of, even those which testify our unthankfulness after the receipt of mercies: As 1. Forgetting the vows of our Misery. Jacob voweth Gen. 28. 22. but he forgets his vow, and what followed? Horrible disorders and confusions in his Family: Dinah deflowered, Reuben goeth into his Fathers Bed, a murder committed upon the Sichemites under a pretence of Religion, and then Jacob remembereth his Vow: We promise much when we want deliverance, and when we have it, God is neglected; but he will not put it up so, by sad and disastrous accidents he puts us in mind of our old promises. 2. When you kiss your own hand, bless your drag, ascribe it to your merit and power: Hab. 1. 16. Deut. 9. 4. for these things are our mercies blasted. 3. When we grow proud, self confident: If you were never so high, God will bring you low enough; 'tis a great skill to know how to abound. She remembered not her last end, therefore she came down wonderfully, Lam. 1. 4. when we forget the changes and mutations to which all outward things are obnoxious, God will give us an experience of them. 4. When you continue in your sins, the judgement is but gone cum animo revertendi, to come again in a worse manner: See Psal. 106. 43.

2. 'Tis a warning to those that enjoy mercies; Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto you: The next judgement will be more violent. There are some special sins which you should beware of, even those which testifie our unthankfulness after the receipt of mercies: As 1. Forgetting the vows of our Misery. Jacob voweth