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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.
2. Not zeal in public reproof. Isa. 58. 1. C•y•aloud, spare not, &c. vitium saeculi is no excuse; if we spare, God ⟨p. 458⟩will not spare, i• we hazard our bodies in bearing our testimony, we save our souls: we must cry out upon sin with a full throat, and that again and again, provided we be clear in our Principles and Aims, and do it without clamour, and popular Invectives: When a fire is kindled in a City, we do not say coldly, yonder is a great fire, I pray God it do no harm: in times of public defection, we are not to read taine Lectures of contemplative Divinity, or fight with Ghosts, and antiquated Errors, but to oppose with all earnestness the growing evils of the world, what ever it cost us.
2. Not zeal in publique reproof. Isa. 58. 1. C•y•aloud, spare not, &c. vitium saeculi is no excuse; if we spare, God ⟨p. 458⟩will not spare, i• we hazard our bodies in bearing our testimony, we save our souls: we must cry out upon sin with a full throat, and that again and again, provided we be clear in our Principles and Ayms, and do it without clamour, and popular Invectives: When a fire is kindled in a City, we do not say coldly, yonder is a great fire, I pray God it do no harm: in times of publique defection, we are not to read taine Lectures of contemplative Divinity, or fight with Ghosts, and antiquated Errors, but to oppose with all earnestness the growing evils of the world, what ever it cost us.
3. Nor yet an holy dislike and singularity, standing aloof from public corruptions, as Lot in Sodom, and Noah walked with God in his generations,