A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

The guides of the Lords people should be stars▪ but not wandering ¹gliding stars. These seducers pretended to be stars, and great lights of the Church (which is the office of the ministers) but were indeed wandering stars, and such as did seduce, and cause to err.

The guides of the Lords people should be stars▪ but not wandring ¹gliding stars. These seducers pretended to be stars, and great lights of the Church (which is the office of the ministers) but were indeed wandring stars, and such as did seduce, and cause to err.

1. 1Observat. 6.

First, Stars they should be, 1. In regard of the light of doctrine. Matth 5. 14. Ye are the light of the world, that's Christs honour, John 1. 9. but he taketh his own crown, and puts it upon his servants heads, they are the light in a subordinate sense; stars, though not the Sun; he is the original and fountain of all light, and we are used as a means to convey it to others; thus John is called, John 6. 35. a burning and a shining light: He useth our service to dispel the mists of error, the right of profaneness, and the darkness of false worship: you had need prize those whom God hath set over you, they are light, and will ^*you quench the light of Israel. 2. In regard of the lustre of their conversations; 'tis said of all Christians,