A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

1. The preparations for Christs approach, the Scripture mentioneth two, 1. The Arch-Angels trumpet. 2. The sign of the Son of Man.

1. There is that great noise and terror of the voice of the Lord, which is to be managed by some special Angels, by which all the world shall be, as it were, summoned to appear before Christs Tribunal, See 1 Thess. 4. 16: and Matth. 24. 31. Some expound this Trumpet Analogically, some Literally: they that expound it Analogically, think it signifieth the power and virtue of Christ forcing all the world to appear before his judgement seat, which is therefore called a trumpet, because the solemn Assemblies among the Jews were summoned by sound of Trumpet; but why may we not take it Literally, and in propriety of speech, for the audible sound of a Trumpet? sure I am at the giving of the Law, the voice of the Trumpet was exceeding loud; and the like may be, when he cometh to take an account of our keeping the Law, a sound of a Trumpet, as a terrible summons to all the world, and a near sign of Christs approach, as John Baptist was the fore-runner of his first coming, who was the ⟨p. 311⟩voice of one crying in the wilderness; So is the Arch. Angel at his second coming, a terrible blast there shall be, such as shall be heard all the world over, startling the dead out of their graves; men do not here the voice of God now, for now he speaketh by his Angels or Messengers, in a still voice: but then all the dead shall hear and live.

1. There is that great noise and terrour of the voice of the Lord, which is to be managed by some special Angels, by which all the world shall be, as it were, summoned to appear before Christs Tribunal, See 1 Thess. 4. 16: and