A89503:632
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. The sending of the persons judged into their everlasting estate, the Elect into glory, and the wicked into torments, Matth. 25. 34. Come ye blessed of my Father, &c. you have been too long absent from me, come receive the fruit of your faith and hope; but verse 41. Go ye cursed &c. they are banished out of Christs presence with such a terrible ban and proscription, as shall never be reversed As Humans face was covered and so led away to execution: so are they chased out of Christs presence with horror, yelling, and holing, with the voice of Dragons, and begging for mercy, but find none. Now from this sentence there is no appeal, 'tis pronounced by Christ as God-Man. On earth many times Gods sentence is repealed, if the nation will repent, &c. Jer. 18. 8. and so though God doth never change his decree; he doth often change his sentence; but the day of patience is now past. and therefore this sentence can never be recalled. Again, the execution is speedy. Here many times the sentence is passed, but sentence is not speedily executed upon an evil doer. Eccles. 8. 11. Once more, this execution beginning with the wicked in the sight of the just, [Greek or Hebrew], gather ye first the Tares, &c. Matth. 13. 30. which worketh the more upon the envy and grief of the wicked that they are thrust out whiles the godly remain with Christ, seeing execution done; and the godly have the deeper seuse of their condition [Greek or Hebrew], &c. Contraries put together do more heighten one another, in the execution of the wicked they may see from what they are delivered by grace. Again the sentence is executed upon the whole man, and that for ever, body and soul are partakers as in the work, so in the punishment and reward; and 'tis eternal for the reward is built on an infinite merit, and the punishment is eternal, because an infinite Majesty is offended; and in the next ⟨p. 316⟩world •on are in their final estate without possibility of change; therefore God is never weary blessing the good and •••sing the wicked.