A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

Again in the third place, false Teachers are light, easily driven up and down in various motions: Carried about of winds 'tit said in the Text, sometimes with this opinion and sometimes with that; as light clouds yield to the motion of the winds, the winds are there corrupt passions, lusts, and interests, Eph. 4. 14. Be not tossed about with ever wind of Doctrine, [Greek or Hebrew], carried round the Card and compass; when the chain of truth is once broken man is at large, and being taken off from his bottom, left loose to strange contrary winds; we see many scrupulous persons, that at first made conscience of all things, afterward to grow so loose as to make conscience of nothing.

Again in the third place, false Teachers are light, easily driven up and down in various motions: Carried about of winds 'tit said in the Text, sometimes with this opinion and sometimes with that; as light clouds yeild to the motion of the winds, the winds are there corrupt passions, lusts, and interests, Eph. 4. 14. Be not t•ssed about with ever wind of Doctrine, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, carried round the Card and compass; when the chain of truth is once broken man is at large, and being taken off from his bottom, left loose to strange contrary winds; we see many scrupulous persons, that at first made conscience of all things, afterward to grow so loose as to make conscience of nothing.

Again, they are as clouds driven with a tempest, so Peter, they do not yield rain, but breed Factions and Schisms and turbulent Commotions; light Clouds are driven with great violence: Well then, Mark them that cause divisions and offences, Rom. 16. 17 they are not what they seem to be; you will find in the end that you get nothing by dancing after their pipe.