A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

Thirdly, This is a note of unregeneracy, or a state of ungodliness; the Apostle describeth the natural state by this serving, Tit. 3. 3. and this fulfilling, Eph. 2. 3. and when the Holy Ghost doth derive the pride and folly of young^* men in giving themselves up to a course of lust and vanity; he saith, go walk in the way of thine own heart, Eccles. 11. 9. and the negative or privative work of regeneration is called a putting off the old man with his deceitful lusts, Eph. 4. 22 and it standeth with good reason.

1. *Job. 15. 11. •

1. Because they that walk after their lusts seek to cherish that which Christ came to destroy, and so go about to defeat the Redeemer, and to hinder him from obtaining his purpose in their hearts; Christ came to destroy the works of the Devil, 1 John 3. 8 [Greek or Hebrew], to untie and loosen those cords of vanity wherewith Satan hath bond us; the works of the Devil are lies which are of his inspiring and cherishing, John 8. 44. Ye are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do: Now when Christ cometh to lose these cords, carnal men tie them the faster, and therefore certainly are to be reckoned to the devil, and not unto God; every degree of service done to Satan, is an act of treason and disloyalty to Christ, therefore when men make it their work to fulfil their lust, they renounce all allegiance to Christ.