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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
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1. Doest thou lye under deep pressing wants? divers have been put to great straits, that have done God more glory: Musculas a great Divine, yet forced to serve a Weaver for his subsistence: Paul made Tents that he might not be burdensome, and so prejudice men against the Gospel; the more destitute, the more sensible of the care of providence; God beareth the Purse for us, when we have but from hand to mouth, we are still supplied; the more immediately you live upon God, the more you begin the life of Heaven, where God is all in all: Deep poverty is is the sauce of the present life; Austin saw a beggar frisking after his belly was filled, he could find no such delight after the use of the creatures, being daily and abundantly supplied; the spectacle much wrought upon him.
1. Doest thou lye under deep presting wants? divers have been put to great streights, that have done God more glory: Musculas a great Divine, yet forced to serve a Weaver for his subsistance: Paul made Tents that he might not be burdensome, and so prejudice men against the Gospel; the more destitute, the more sensible of the care of providence; God beareth the Purse for us, when we have but from hand to mouth, we are still supplyed; the more immediately you liue upon God, the more you begin the life of Heaven, where God is all in all: Deep poverty is is the sauce of the present life; Austin saw a beggar frisking after his belly was filled, he could find no such delight after the use of the creatures, being daily and abundantly supplyed; the spectacle much wrought upon him.
2. Hast thou sustained great losses? If God hath lent us blessings, and taken them again, shall we grudge them to the right owner, he took part that gave all.
3. Dost thou endure great pains? there is a gradation in miseries, those that lite upon the estate, do not sit so close as those that lite upon the body, and those that lite upon the body are not so terrible as those that lite upon the soul; a wounded spirit who can beat? bodily pains is the case we now speak too, you are full of pains, but Christ