A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

2. Affect rather to be good then great, none murmur because of the smallness of grace, that's not their complaint; but because of the lowness of their condition in the world▪ a man that looketh after the increase of grace, he can bless God for his outward decays, 2 Cor. 4. 16. and look upon murmurings as worse then pains or losses, those are afflictions, these are sins: So much for the first crime charged.

The next part of their Character is [walking after their own lusts,] This is fitly subjoined to the former; for lusts make men froward and hard to be pleased; and the persons here described were exact Libertines, making their lusts their rule and their law; yea, the most brutish of all lusts, the lusts of the flesh; and therefore in Peter 'tis 2 Pet. 2. 10. That walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness; how portentous they were for impurities in this kind, we told you before; their [walking after their lusts] implieth their giving up themselves to such a course, contrary to all fear of God, care of Laws, or restraint of nature.

The next part of their Character is [walking after their own lusts,] This is fitly subjoined to the former; for lusts make men froward and hard to be pleased; and the persons here described were exact Libertines, making their lusts their rule and their law; yea, the most bruitish of all lusts, the lusts of the flesh; and therefore in Peter 'tis 2 Pet. 2. 10. That walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness; how portentous they were for impurities in this kind, we told you before; their [walking after their lusts] implyeth their giving up themselves to such a course, contrary to all fear of God, care of Laws, or restraint of nature.