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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 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 ⟨p. 427⟩of mind to look above every trouble; contend for God, but wait upon him; Satan may prevail a long time, but he can never carry it clearly from Christ: the Arians had a day of it, but they soon grew infamous for their cruelty and baseness.
That though Errours 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;