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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
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.
First, What it is to be sanctified; there are many acceptions of the term, the most famous are two; to sanctify is either to set apart, or to cleanse; these two notions will be enough for our purpose, if in each of them we suppose both something privative, and something positive: as when it signifieth to set apart, you must conceive not only a setting apart from common use, but a dedication to holy uses, or a setting apart for God, which is the most proper acception of the word: So when it signifieth to cleanse, you must not only conceive a purgation from filthiness, but a plantation of seeds of grace; not only an abolition of natural corruption, but a renovation of Gods Image. In this method let us a little consider the thing in hand.
First, What it is to be sanctified; there are many acceptions of the term, the most famous are two; to sanctifie is either to set apart, or to cleanse; these two notions will be enough for our purpose, if in each of them we suppose both something privative, and something positive: as when it signifieth to set apart, you must conceive not only a setting apart from common use, but a dedication to holy uses, or a setting apart for God, which is the most proper acception of the word: So when it signifieth to cleanse, you must not only conceive a purgation from filthiness, but a plantation of seeds of grace; not only an abolition of natural corruption, but a renovation of Gods Image. In this method let us a little consider the thing in hand.
1. To sanctify, is to set apart, and dedicate: Now Gods people are set apart *by God, and they dedicate themselves to his use and service. They are set apart by God both in time and before time: Before all time they are set apart by Gods Decree to be an holy seed to himself in and by Christ, separated from the perishing world to be vessels of honour; as the Reprobate are called vessels of wrath and dishonour: thus we are said to be chosen to be holy, Ephes. 1. 4. But then in time they are regenerated, and actually set apart: Sanctification is an actual Election (as before) by which we are set apart from the perishing world to act for God, and to seek the things that make for his glory: Thus we are called Gods first fruits, which were the Lords portion,