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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
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That ambition breedeth faction, hence Corah gainsaid; 1Diotrephes loveth the preeminence, and therefore troubled the Church, in the 3 Epistle of John 10. All stirs begin first in our own lusts, men are discontented with their estate, would be higher, and therefore break rank: Lanctantius observeth of the troubles of his age, thus. Fuerunt quidam nostrorum vel minus stabilitâ fide, vel minus docti, vel minus eauti; qui dissidium facerent unitatis & ecclesiam dissiparent, sed ij quorum fides fuit lubrica, cum deum nosse se & collar simularent, augendis opibus & honori students, affectabant maximum sacerdotium, & a potioribus victi, secedere cum suffragatoribus suis maluerunt quam eos ferre prae positos, quibus concupiebant ante praeponi, &c. Lactant. de vera sapientia lib. 4. to cap. 30. 'tis an excellent thing to be contented with our own station; Jesus Christ was chadal ischim, Isa. 53. 3. the leaving off of men, or contented to be in the lowest rank, if God hath denied thee any condition in the world which thou affectest, thou art not worthy of it, or it is not fit for thee, &c.
That ambition breedeth faction, hence Corah gainsayed; 1Diotrephes loveth the preheminence, and therefore troubled the Church, in the 3 Epistle of John 10. All stirs begin first in our own lusts, men are discontented with their estate, would be higher, and therefore break rank: Lanctantius observeth of the troubles of his age, thus. Fuerunt quidam nostrorum vel minus stabilitâ fide, vel minus docti, vel minus eauti; qui dissidium facerent unitatis & ecclesiam dissiparent, sed ij quorum fides fuit lubrica, cum deum nosse se & colere simularent, augendis opibus & honori studentes, affectabant maximum sacerdotium, & a potioribus victi, secedere cum suffragatoribus suis maluerunt quam eos ferre prae positos, quibus concupiebant ante praeponi, &c. Lactant. de vera sapientia lib. 4. to cap. 30. 'tis an excellent thing to be contented with our own station; Jesus Christ was chadal ischim, Isa. 53. 3. the leaving off of men, or contented to be in the lowest rank, if God hath denyed thee any condition in the world which thou affectest, thou art not worthy of it, or it is not fit for thee, &c.