A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

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 ⟨p. 449⟩own lusts, think Magistracy to be an encroachment upon their freedom, and therefore cannot away with any established order; and as for Ministry, that all the Lords people are holy, Numb. 16. 3 what need any to be set a part for that work; thus would they level all things in Church and Common-wealth, as those Rebels rose up against Moses and Aaron: but though not against the Office, we may murmur at the persons that are advanced, as if we would teach God how to govern the world, and whom to lift up and cast down: or else by finding fault with their government without a cause; some presumptuous persons that never learned obedience, are always unsatisfied; 'twas * observed of Egypt, that it was Loquax est ingeniosa in contumeliam praefectorum provincia, si quis forte vitaverit culpam, contumeliam non •ff•git; many such ungoverned spirits there are that are always traducing public government, especially when 'tis most faithfully managed, and to the discouragement of Opinionists and evil-doers; God will not suffer this evil to go unpunished, Exod. 16 8. and 1 Sam. 18. 7. the calling is his Ordinance, the persons are designed by his providence, and the work concerneth his glory, and therefore God taketh himself to be much interested in the quarrel.

2. Against Superiours, 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 ⟨p. 449⟩own lusts, think Magistracy to be an incroachment upon their freedom, and therefore cannot away with any established order; and as for Ministry, that all the Lords people are holy,