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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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4. The next expression is [foaming out their own shame,] as a raging sea casteth up mire and dirt; or it alludeth to that scum and froth which the Waves leave upon the rocks, and so it noteth the abominableness of their opinions and practises. Whence note,
4. The next expression is [foaming out their own shame,] as a raging sea casteth up mire and dirt; or it alludeth to that scum and froth which the Waves leave upon the rocks, and so it noteth the abominab•eness of their opinions and practises. Whence note,
That though Errors come in blushing, and with a modest 1dress, yet usually they go out of the world with a great deal of shame. They dash against the rock upon which the Church is built, and what is the issue? They are covered with froth and foam; 1 Cor. 3. 13. The day shall declare it, that is time, whose daughter truth is; have a little patience, and you shall see, that all that is but hay and stubble, which is accounted gold; when worldly interests are unconcerned, and the heat of contention a little allayed, that men may have more clear discerning, and the world hath had a little more experience of the fruit of false ways and opinions, there will not need any great confutation; evil men will sufficiently bewray their own filthiness: Guicciardine saith of the expedition of Charles the 9th into Italy, that he came in like lightning, and went out like the snuff of a Candle; so errors come in like a raging wave, as if they would bear all before them, but they go out like foam and froth, in scorn and infamy: Well then, observe the fruitlessness of all Satan's attempts; the gates of hell shall not prevail against this Rock, Matth. 16. 18. By the gates of hell, is meant strength and counsel power and policy; for in the gates was their Ammunition, and seats of Judicature: they that seek to slaver the Church▪ or deface the truth, which is the foundation of it, they do but spit against the wind, the drivel is returned upon their own faces: We often betray our trust and faith by our passions; we have not an holy greatness