A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

We are now come to the phrases that imply their punishment, ¹and that we made to be two-fold, Present and Future, the first part of the present punishment is paene d• ni, their loss implied in that clause [leaving their own habitation] in which their guilt is further intimated, for the Apostle here maketh it to be their act, but Peter in the parallel place maketh it Gods act, 2 Pet. 2. 4. God spared not his Angels that sinned, but cast them down to Hell, without further diversion we may take up the point thus, That the Apostate ²Angels upon their sin and fall departed from that place of happiness and glory which before they enjoyed. So Rev. 12. 8. Their place was found no more in heaven, and the great Dragon was cast out, that old Serpent called the Devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world, he was cast out into the earth, and his Angels were cast out with him. That Scripture I confess is mystical, and speaketh of the overcoming of Satan in this present world, and casting him out of the Church, which is there expressed by Heaven, ⟨p. 285⟩as the World by Earth: For I observe in that book the Church is sometimes expressed by terms suitable to the Judaical state. So in Rev. 11. 2. The Church is called the Temple, and the World the Court, and sometimes by the Celestial state, and so the Church is called Heaven▪ and the World Earth; but however there is a plain allusion to Satan's first fall from Heaven, as the ground of these expressions, and therefore I may use that place as a proof in this matter, that you may understand the loss of the Angels: give me leave to lay down these propositions. 1. The place of their Innocency was Heaven, round about the Throne of God, where the good Angels do continually behold his face, and stand before him, Dan. 7. 10. In such a blessed place, and in such blessed company was their [Greek or Hebrew], their abode or habitation: when God disposed the several Creatures into proper mansions and places of abode, he took the Angels into his own train and glorious attendants, that they might be still with him, other Creatures were his Servants, those his Courtiers, that is, his Household and ordinary Servants that were to attend as in his Chamber of Presence. 2. In this place they were to enjoy God and glorify God, their happiness was to enjoy God, their duty to glorify him;