A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

[Greek or Hebrew] as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed; and it will imply that they degenerated into beasts, notwithstanding that natural knowledge wherewith they were endowed; but to speak my own thoughts in this matter; the former reading is more agreeable to the posture of the words in the Original, [Greek or Hebrew], What they naturally as brute beasts know, in those things they are worse then beasts, corrupting and defiling themselves, by the excesses of the sensual appetite; as in eating and drinking and the use of the woman in common copulation, as if there were no Law, nor limited use of those things which yet they might discern in the beasts themselves, and the dictates of their own consciences.

〈non-Latin alphabet〉 as natural bruit beasts, made to be taken and destroyed; and it will imply that they degenerated into beasts, notwithstanding that natural knowledge wherewith they were endowed; but to speak my own thoughts in this matter; the former reading is more agreeable to the posture of the words in the Original, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, What they naturally as bruit beasts know, in those things they are worse then beasts, corrupting and defiling themselves, by the excesses of the sensual appetite; as in eating and drinking and the use of the woman in common copulation, as if there were no Law, nor limited use of those things which yet they might discern in the beasts themselves, and the dictates of their own consciences.

This being premised, I come to explain the words [what they know [Greek or Hebrew], naturally] There is a three fold light. 1. Sense or Instinct. 2. Reason. 3. Grace, and accordingly as a man is furnished, he may said to be [Greek or Hebrew], spiritual, or furnished with the light of grace, or [Greek or Hebrew], which we translate natural, 1 Cor. 2. 14. it signifieth one that hath nothing but the light of a reasonable soul. Lastly, [Greek or Hebrew], merely natural, which signifieth one guided by the ⟨p. 395⟩