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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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We are now come to the second part of the punishment of pains, taken from the other inconvenience of a prison [[Greek or Hebrew] under darkness] in allusion to Malefactors, who are cast into Dungeons, where besides the load of Irons, the very darkness of the place concurreth to their misery; light is pleasant, as giving us the sight of what is grateful ⟨p. 300⟩in the world, of which when we are deprived, the mind like a Mill falleth and worketh upon its self. Peter saith [in chains of darkness] as implying that God did bind them fast with their darkness and horror, as with a chain, but our Apostle here seemeth to make them two distinct parts of their torment, as certainly it is a more full description of it. Well then, the proposition will be, That the Apostate Angels are kept under darkness.
We are now come to the second part of the punishment of paines, taken from the other inconvenience of a prison [〈non-Latin alphabet〉 under darkness] in allusion to Malefactors, who are cast into Dungeons, where besides the load of Irons, the very darkness of the place concurreth to their misery; light is pleasant, as giving us the sight of what is grateful ⟨p. 300⟩in the world, of which when we are deprived, the mind like a Mill falleth and worketh upon its selfe. Peter saith [in chains of darknesse] as implying that God did bind them fast with their darknesse and horror, as with a chain, but our Apostle here seemeth to make them two distinct parts of their torment, as certainly it is a more full description of it. Well then, the proposition will be, That the Apostate Angels are kept under darkness.
Darkness in Scripture representeth three things, first,1 Ignorance, secondly, Sin, thirdly, misery; as light the contrary quality, implieth Knowledge, Holiness, and Happiness, because light discovereth all things. 'Tis put for knowledge, because of all bodily qualities, 'tis most pure and unmixed, therefore 'tis put for holiness, because 'tis wonderfully pleasing and delightful to sense, therefore 'tis put for glory: so contrariwise darkness, which is nothing else but the absence and privation of light, signifieth ignorance,