A89503:994
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.
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.
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 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, to unty and loosen those cords of vanity wherewith Satan hath bonnd 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 tye 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.
2. They that walk after their lusts have not taken the rule of the new creature upon them; the new man hath another Master and another rule, the renewed soul is not governed by lust, but by the Law of God, Gal 6. 16. it we have not changed our rule, 'tis a sign we have not changed our Master.