A89503:894
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Notes are these.
1. That what is spoken in the word in general doth as much concern us as if it were spoken to our own persons; Enoch Prophesied of these, &c. Particulars are comprised in their generals, some Scriptures speak directly to every single person; the Decalogue is most express this way, Thou, thou, &c. as aiming to awaken every one to a sense of their duty, God doth as it were talk with every of our persons immediately: the Gospel indeed speaketh largely, come all ye, &c. as excluding and exempting none out of the hopes of it, yet sometimes the Gospel speaking as particularly as the Law, especially where the condition is annexed to the offer, as Rom. 10. 9. If thou believest in the Lord Jesus with thine heart, &c. if you, as speaking to me, if thou, as speaking to thee, and every other man in particular: Well then, though the word speaketh generally, take home your own share, as men cut a passage out of the common River to water their own fields, let not the Scriptures speak in vain, James 4. 5 we are all concerned, when his speech is directed to men of our condition: Psal. 27. 8. Thou saidest seek ye my face, and David sub-sumeth, Thy face Lord will I seek.
1. That what is spoken in the word in general doth as much concern us as if it were spoken to our own persons; Enoch Prophesied of these, &c. Particulars are comprized in their generals, some Scriptures speak directly to every single person; the Decalogue is most express this way, Thou, thou, &c. as aiming to awaken every one to a sense of their duty, God doth as it were talk with every of our persons imediately: the Gospel indeed speaketh largely, come all yee, &c. as excluding and exempting none out of the hopes of it, yet sometimes the Gospel speaking as particularly as the Law, especially where the condition is annexed to the offer, as Rom. 10. 9. If thou beleevest in the Lord Jesus with thine heart, &c. if you, as speaking to me, if thou, as speaking to thee, and every other man in particular: Well then, though the word speaketh generally, take home your own share, as men cut a passage out of the common River to water their own fields, let not the Scriptures speak in vain,