A89503:569
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Sin depriveth us of Gods presence, this is the Wall of separation between us and God, Isa. 59. 2. Your sins have separated, &c. it not only provoketh God to stand at a distance from us, but worketh a strangeness in us, and maketh us shy of his presence, it cast the Angels out of Heaven, Adam out of Paradise, Cain out of the Church; well then, when you are tempted to folly, bethink with your selves, God could not endure the sight of Angels, when once they were defiled with sin; if I should yield to this temptation▪ I should never endure God, nor he me; this will either cause the spirit to leave me, or me to leave the Throne of Grace; guilty souls cannot sustain the presence of God, and God doth not own the presence of guilty sinners. Peter said Luke 5. 8. Depart from me, for I am a sinful man: And God saith, Depart from me into everlasting torments, Mat. 25.
2. Sin depriveth us of Gods presence, this is the Wall of separation between us and God, Isa. 59. 2. Your sins have separated, &c. it not onely provoketh God to stand at a distance from us, but worketh a strangenesse in us, and maketh us shie of his presence, it cast the Angels out of Heaven, Adam out of Paradise, Cain out of the Church; well then, when you are tempted to folly, bethink with your selves, God could not indure the sight of Angels, when once they were defiled with sin; if I should yeeld to this temptation▪ I should never indure God, nor he me; this will either cause the spirit to leave me, or me to leave the Throne of Grace; guilty souls cannot sustain the presence of God, and God doth not own the presence of guilty sinners. Peter said Luke 5. 8. Depart from me, for I am a sinfull man: And God saith, Depart from me into everlasting torments, Mat. 25.