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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
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.
Let us now apply the point.
It dissuadeth us from walking after our own lusts: you1 that are Christians should deny them, and not gratify them, otherwise you renounce your allegiance to God; Lust sets up another Lord, and maketh us stand in defiance with the God that made us; his Laws call for one thing, and your lusts crave another: God saith, put off the old man with his deceitful lusts, and you say, we will keep them: Can they be good subjects that live in defiance of their Sovereigns Laws? If a Prince should send a message to a City not to harbour such and such Traitors, but to search them out, and bring them to condigne punishment, if they never look after them, yea are angry with those that discover them, it argueth they do inhaunt with Traitors, and are enemies to their Prince: We are often warned in Gods name to look to our sinful lusts, to put them away, and we go home, and never regard it, nay are angry with those that grate upon the Conscience: Herod would not have his Herodias touched; we take it heinously when the
It disswadeth us from walking after our own lusts: you1 that are Christians should deny them, and not gratifie them, otherwise you renounce your allegiance to God; Lust sets up another Lord, and maketh us stand in defiance with the God that made us; his Laws call for one thing, and your lusts crave another: God saith, put off the old man with his deceitful lusts, and you say, we will keep them: Can they be good subjects that live in defiance of their Soveraigns Laws? If a Prince should send a message to a City not to harbour such and such Traytors, but to search them out, and bring them to condigne punishment, if they never look after them, yea are angry with those that discover them, it argueth they do inhaunt with Traytors, and are enemies to their Prince: We are often warned in Gods name to look to our sinful lusts, to put them away, and we go home, and never regard it, nay are angry with those that grate upon the Conscience: Herod would not have his Herodias touched; we take it hainously when the