A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

8. Complaining will not excuse duty, it argueth little faith, is not Christ King? doth not he reign? little obedience, and care of reformation; a gracious heart is most apt to return upon 'its self; if the times be bad, what have I done to make them better? if not, thou art one that hast made them worse.

9. He that is not good in bad times, will be naught in better, Isa. 26. 10. In the Land of uprightness will he dead unjustly, a sick man thinketh to have ease in another bed in another room carry him thither his pain continueth; if a carnal man had lived in the Prophets times, or the Apostles time, he would be the same as now, see Mat. 23. 29, 30. A briar is a briar where ever it groweth, change of times will not do the work without a change of heart: Adam sinned in Paradise, the Apostate Angels in Heaven; Lot was unchaste ⟨p. 463⟩in the Mountains, where were none but his own family, in an howling Wilderness where they had no outward enticements, the Israelites were given to fleshly lusts.

9. He that is not good in bad times, will be naught in better, Isa. 26. 10. In the Land of uprightness will he ded vnjustly, a sick man thinketh to have ease in another bed in another room carry him thither his pain continueth; if a carnal man had lived in the Prophets times, or the Apostles time, he would be the same as now, see Mat. 23. 29, 30. A bryar is a bryar where ever it groweth, change of times will not do the work without a change of heart: Adam sinned in Paradise, the Apostate Angels in Heaven; Lot was unchast ⟨p. 463⟩in the Mountains, where were none but his own family, in an howling Wilderness where they had no outward enticements, the Israelites were given to fleshly lusts.