A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

1. Against men, and so either against our equals or superiors.

1. Against men, and so either against our equals or superiours.

1. Equals, when we murmur because they are admitted to the same privileges with our selves, see Mat. 20. 11. They murmured against the good man of the louse, saying, these last wrought but one hour; so Luk 15. This thy son devoured his living with harlots, &c. and Beza, of some that reproached him with the sins of his unregenerate condition: Hi homines invident mihi gratiam divinam, surely these men are angry because God hath showed me mercy: there is an envious nature in man, we would all shine alone, and enclose the common salvation; to upbraid men with late conversion is all one as to make it a crime, because they are born but yesterday, 'tis to take up that filth which God would have covered.

1. Equals, when we murmur because they are admitted to the same priviledges with our selves, see Mat. 20. 11. They murmured against the good man of the louse, saying, these last wrought but one hour; so Luk 15. This thy son devoured his living with harlots, &c. and Beza, of some that reproached him with the sins of his unregenerate condition: Hi homines invident mihi gratiam divinam, surely these men are angry because God hath shewed me mercy: there is an envious nature in man, we would all shine alone, and inclose the common salvation; to upbraid men with late conversion is all one as to make it a crime, because they are born but yesterday, 'tis to take up that filth which God would have covered.

2. Against Superiors, especially because invested with Magistracy or Ministry, some men are of a yokeless libertine spirit, will acknowledge no other Law but their own lusts, as in the Text: Murmurers, walking after their