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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.
AN EXPOSITION WITH NOTES On the EPISTLE of JUDE. › Verse 9 › Question and answer 4
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.
nothing so pleasing to him as Worship and Adoration, and so he can get it any way from the creatures, be is contented.
Well then, it showeth us.
Well then, it sheweth us.
1. What care we should take to be right in worship▪ both1 for the object and manner: 'tis Idolatry not only to worship ⟨p. 375⟩false Gods in the place of the true God, but to worship the true God in a false manner, and both sorts do gratify the Devil; when he cannot hold the people under utter blindness and Paganism, he is glad if he can draw them to undue Rites and Ceremonies in worship; therefore let us hate the least kind of Idolatry, if we would not prog for the Devils Kingdom: David saith, Psal. 16. 4. I will not take their name into my lips, that he would abhor the very mention of Idols: so Hosea 2. 16. God would no more be called Baal, though it signified Lord and Husband, because the Title had been applied to Idols; The Israelites when they took Cities, they changed their names if they had any tincture of Idolatry, Numb. 32. 38. Nebo and Baalmeon, their names being changed; so exact should we be in keeping from Idols.
1. What care we should take to be right in worship both