A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

3. Do but bserve the difference between God and Satan God is light, 1 John 1. 5 and Satan darkness, God dwelleth in light, and Satan is reserved in chains under darkness the first creature that God made in the world was light and the first gift of the spirit is illumination, but now all Satan's aim & work is to bring in darkness, to blind the mind, 1 Cor 4. 4. ignorance is the very foundation of his kingdom Eph. 6. 12. Well then, the more dark, the more like Satan a Child of God is a Child of light, and what have we to do with works of darkness, Eph. 5. 11. there should ⟨p. 303⟩be such a contrariety between you and sin as there is between God and Satan; say then these actions would only become my night of ignorance and folly, night work is unseemly for the day, Rom. 13▪ 12. the day is at hand let us cast off the works of darkness; leave these things to the Bats and the Owls, if there be a difference, and contrariety between Christ and Belial, who are the chiefs of either state, so between the persons that heard under them; What communion is there between Christ and Belial, between light and darkness, 2 Cor. 6. 14.

3. Do but bserve the difference between God and Sathan God is light, 1 John 1. 5 and Sathan darkness, God dwelleth in light, and Sathan is reserved in chains under darknesse the first creature that God made in the world was light and the first gift of the spirit is illumination, but now all Satans aim & work is to bring in darkness, to blind the mind, 1 Cor 4. 4. ignorance is the very foundation of his kingdom Eph. 6. 12. Wel then, the more dark, the more like Sathan a Child of God is a Child of light, and what have we to do with works of darkness,