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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
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5. Angels, Creatures of the highest excellency are not spared when they sin; 2 Pet. 2. 4. God spared not the Angels, &c. wonder at the patience of the great God to us sinners; if a King be angry with his offending Nobles, should not the skullions tremble? how come we to be of this side Hell? Go home and adore that Grace that hath kept you out of the chains of darkness, Lam. 3. 23. It is of the Lords mercy that we are not consumed, not swallowed up quick not cast down to Hell; if the Angels in the very Infancy of their Creation were so soon punished for the first offence, Lord what didst thou see in us, that after so many offences we should be yet alive? tis mercy, pardoning mercy that giveth us our beings! we fail not because compassions fail not
5. Angels, Creatures of the highest exeellency are not spared when they sin; 2 Pet. 2. 4. God spared not the Angels, &c. wonder at the patience of the great God to us sinners; if a King be angry with his offending Nobles, should not the skullions tremble? how come we to be of this side Hell? Go home and adore that Grace that hath kept you out of the chains of darkness, Lam. 3. 23. It is of the Lords mercy that we are not consumed, not swallowed up quick not cast down to Hell; if the Angels in the very Infancy of their Creation were so soon punished for the first offence, Lord what didst thou see in us, that after so many offences we should be yet alive? tis mercy, pardoning mercy that giveth us our beings! we fail not because compassions fail not
6. Angels were forced to leave their habitation; when they changed their nature, they changed their estate: let all sinners tremble! consider the instance, and you will see that no dignity and worth of the Creature is of any avail, nothing can keep off the strokes of vengeance, but the blood of Jesus Christ; they were Angels, glorious Creatures, their sin but one, and probably that in thought, yet how dreadful is their punishment? cast out of Heaven, kept in chains of darkness for a severer vengeance! Oh then, how should we tremble that have drunk in iniquity like water? surely God is the same, he doth no less hat