A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

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• ⟨p. 291⟩pride, obstinacy, and contempt of his grace now, then he did in times past, God is but one, Gal. 3. 20. he acteth according to the same tenor of justice now as heretofore, &c.

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 wil see that no dignity and worth of the Creature is of any avail, nothing can keep off the stroakes 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• ⟨p. 291⟩pride, obstinacy, and contempt of his grace now, then he did in times past, God is but one, Gal. 3. 20. he acteth according to the same tenour of justice now as heretofore, &c.

7. From the word [Greek or Hebrew], their own place, observe the true dwelling place and rest is Heaven; 'twas the habitation of the Angels, and the rest of the Saints; Oh long for your home, let your hearts and your hopes be there, enter upon your eternal inheritance by degrees; the Angels left their habitations, do you be always travelling thither, let your