A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

2. Impatience. We cannot endure the least inconvenience, touchy nature would be at ease, tumbling and wallowing in all kind of pleasure; therefore as soon as we are touched in our skins, we fall a murmuring, Why is this evil befallen me? and Why should I wait upon the Lord any longer? An unsubjection of Will to God, will inevitably put us upon repining.

3. Presumption of merit, where all is of free cost, there is no complaining; Men ascribe to themselves, when they prescribe to God what he shall do for them▪ or how bless them; every thing is welcome, where nothing is deserved; if you keep a man of Alms, you take it ill that he should not be pleased with his Diet: when we look to desert, we may wonder more at what we have, then what we want; God would do us no wrong, if we were reduced to a less pittance▪ if in a prison, 'tis a favour we are not in hell: a Malefactor would be glad to commute his punishment, a greater for a less, death for exile; exile for loss of estate, and then the whole for a part: Can a firebrand of hell murmur? there is our desert, but we think God is bound and ⟨p. 454⟩that 'tis a wrong that he taketh no more notice of us, wherefore have we fasted, &c. Isa. 58. I am not as other men, &c. Luke 18.

3. Presumption of merit, where all is of free cost, there is no complaining; Men ascribe to themselves, when they prescribe to God what he shall do for them▪ or how bless them; every thing is welcom, where nothing is deserved; if you keep a man of Almes, you take it ill that he should not be pleased with his Diet: when we look to desert, we may wonder more at what we have, then what we want; God would do us no wrong, if we were reduced to a less pittance▪ if in a prison, 'tis a favour we are not in hell: a Malefactor would be glad to commute his punishment, a greater for a less, death for exile; exile for loss of estate, and then the whole for a part: Can a firebrand of hell murmure? there is our desert, but we think God is bound and