A89503:882
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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Secondly, They must not be gliding falling stars, that's charged upon these seducers, a false teacher, and a falling star symbolizeth in three respects. 1. 'Tis but a counterfeit star; so is he an Angel of light only in appearance, 2 Cor. 11. 14. a true Christian should covet more to be▪ than to seem to be; to be light in the Lord, before he is a light in the world; Hypocrites are all for appearance 2. In respect of the uncertainty of its motion; falling stars are not moved with the heavens, but with the motion of the Air, hither and thither, and so are no sure direction; so are they unconstant and unstable in the doctrines which they teach, running from opinion to opinion; vagabond lights, that seduce, not direct; as meteors, mislead travellers out of the way. 3. In regard of the fatal issue; a wandering star falleth to the ground, and becometh a dark slime and jelly; so their pretences vanish at length, and they are found to be those that were never enlightened and ⟨p. 429⟩fixed in the firmament of God; counterfeits cannot last long, we see stars shoot in the turn of an eye, and Satan's instruments fall from heaven like lightning.
Secondly, They must not be gliding falling stars, thats charged upon these seducers, a false teacher, and a falling star symbolizeth in three respects. 1. 'Tis but a counterfeit star; so is he an Angel of light only in appearance, 2 Cor. 11. 14. a true Christian should covet more to be▪ than to seem to be; to be light in the Lord, before he is a light in the world; Hypocrites are all for appearance 2. In respect of the uncertainty of its motion; falling stars are not moved with the heavens, but with the motion of the Ayr, hither and thither, and so are no sure direction; so are they unconstant and unstable in the doctrines which they teach, running from opinion to opinion; vagabond lights, that seduce, not direct; as meteors, mislead travellers out of the way. 3. In regard of the fatal issue; a wandring star falleth to the ground, and becometh a dark slime and jelly; so their pretences vanish at length, and they are found to be those that were never enlightned and ⟨p. 429⟩