A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

Secondly, Consider it with Application to your selves, First, apply it for humiliation, we left [Greek or Hebrew], our first estate as well as the Angels, God made man upright, but ⟨p. 284⟩they sought out many inventions, Eccles. 7. 29. Read your own guilt and Apostasy in the sin of the Angels; usually the Page is whipped to show the Prince his fault; but here the Princes and noblest part of the world are set out to us for examples, that in their ruin and dreadful fall we might understand our own. Do but observe the Parable, they had [Greek or Hebrew], an original estate of happiness and holiness, and so we, they fell soon, so we; they fell by Pride, so we; the Angelical fall is our glass; we are a kind of Devils, and Apostates from God: they were driven out of Heaven, so we out of Paradise: they are punished with darkness, and so we. Secondly, apply it for Caution, there is a new beginning in Christ, the Apostle saith, Heb. 3. 14. We are made partakers of Christ if we •old [Greek or Hebrew], the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end. If we should break with God again upon this new stock, there will be no more sacrifice for sin, faith which is the gift of Gods grace, is the beginning and root of a new life in Christ: if we should forfeit this, we cannot expect God will deal with us any more.

Secondly, Consider it with Application to your selves, First, apply it for humiliation, we left 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, our first estate as well as the Angels, God made man upright, but ⟨p. 284⟩they sought out many inventions, Eccles. 7. 29. Read your own guilt and Apostacy in the sin of the Angels; usually the Page is whipped to shew the Prince his fault; but here the Princes and noblest part of the world are set out to us for examples, that in their ruine and dreadful fall we might understand our own. Do but observe the Parable, they had 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, an original estate of happinesse and holinesse, and so we, they fell soon, so we; they fell by Pride, so we; the Angelical fall is our glass; we are a kind of Divels, and Apostates from God: they were driven out of Heaven, so we out of Paradise: they are punished with darkness, and so we. Secondly, apply it for Caution, there is a new beginning in Christ, the Apostle saith,