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A06987	A Catholike and ecclesiasticall exposition vppon the epistle of S. Iude the apostle collected and gathered out of the workes of the best writers by Augustine Marlorat ... ; translated out of Latin into Englishe ... by I.D. mynister.	Marlorat, Augustin, 1506-1562.; I. D.	1584 (1584)	STC 17406.5; ESTC S4778	35,894	86

like in these our dayes are these phantasticall spirits that terme them selues Lybertines ●iuely ●cripti● of the●ily of ●e A man would say that they doe nothinge els but thunder For they scorne and disdaine at the common and vsuall kinde of speakinge and haue deuised and fayned to themselues certaine strange and proper kindes and formes of speaches And after they thinke that their schollers be rapte into the heauens sodainely they fall into beastly errours For they fayne that to be the state of innocency where there is no difference betwene honest and vnhonest thinges They fayne that to bee a spirituall life when euery man settinge all feare aparte doth carelessely and to to much giue him selfe to his owne appetite and sensuality They say that wee are made Gods because God doth as it were sucke and sup vp our spirites when they leaue the body This their errour ought to make vs the more carefull with reuerence to imbrace the simplicity of the scriptures least disputing and reasoning thereof more curiously and philosophically then it behooueth vs wee doe not so much as approche vnto heauen but rather fall and bee drowned sodainely in the Labyrinth of dyuerse erroures Bulling B. But it seemeth that this Parable of Iudas was taken out of the prophet Esayes fifty seauēth Chap. verse 20. where it is thus wrytten The wicked are like the raginge sea that cannot rest whose water fometh with the myre and grauel It followeth They are wandring starres C. So these deceauers are called Caluin because they dazell the eyes with the similitude or likenesse of lighte that soone vanisheth away and pearisheth B. So these false teachers Bullinge doe seeme to them selues to bee brighte shyning starres as who woulde say illuminate Doctors Lightes of the worlde profounde clarkes But because they stand not to their opinion nor follow the constant and knowne truth but are ruled rather by their affections they make shipwracke of the vnwise and ignorant It followeth To whom the miste of darckenesse is reserued for euer B. Now he threatneth them iudgement Bulling that the faythfull may take the better heede of them as if hee shoulde say althoughe they seeme nowe to raygne as Lordes and kynges yet notwithstandinge they shall not escape the iudgement of the Lord. For hee reserueth them to bee punyshed with Satan in that hellishe and eternall darkenes for euer ●erus I. For it is meete and righte that they that deny Chryste the true lighte in deede bee delyuered to perpetuall darcknesse for euer 14. Enoch the seuenth from Adam prophesied before of such The texte saying behold the Lord shall come with thowsands of saintes M. Luth. Enoch the seuenth M. This place is read no where in scripture which is another reason why some of the fathers haue not receaued this epistle Caluin C. But this prophesie seemeth rather to bee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say vnwritten or deliuered by tradition then to be taken out of the bookes Apochriphall For it may bee that the auncient fathers commended this worthy sayinge to bee remembred of posterity If any man demaunde seeing that the like sentences are to be found in scripture euery where why Iudas hath not cyted some written testymonies out of some one or other of the Prophets for confirmation thereof The answere is easie That Iudas would only rehearse what the spirit pronounced of them in old time And so doe the wordes here sounde For hee nameth Enoch the seuenth from Adam to cōmend the antiquity of the prophesie to weete because it was extant in the first world M. Lu● M. But herehence we do learne that God from the beginning of the world hath caused his worde to bee preached vnto some promising thereby grace and saluation to them that belieue but to the vnfaithfull foreshewinge iudgement and damnation euen till Christes ascention from the which time the worde of the Lord hath bene preached openly to all the worlde But before our Sauiour Christes natiuity God hath chosen only to himselfe a certaine lineal descēt from Adam to Abraham and from Abraham to Dauid and so alonge from Dauid to Mary the mother of Christe hee chose some to whom hee delyuered his worde The worde of the Lorde therefore hath alwayes bene preached in the worlde but neuer so openly as in these last dayes After this manner also did our father Enoch preach the word of the Lord which vndoubtedly hee had learned of his father Adam and of the holy ghost It followeth Behold the Lord cōmeth C. The preterperfect tence is put for he future tence propehtically Caluin With thousands of Angells By these words he signifieth as well the faithful as the Angells for they shal both together garnish so forth the tribunal seate of Christ when he shal come to iudge the worlde Hee saith thowsandes euen as Daniell also telleth of many times ten thowsandes of Aungells in the seuenth Chap. verse 10. least the multitude of the wicked lyke the raging and vyolent sea should burst in vpon the children of God and carry them away by force and violence while they thinke it will come to passe that the Lord in time will gather together those that bee his parte whereof are nowe inhabitinge the heauens which wee cannot now see with our eyes parte are here nowe in the worlde couered vnder the chaffe 15. To giue iudgement against all men and to rebuke all that are vngodly amonge them The texte of all their vngodly deedes which they haue vngodly committed and of all their cruell speakinges whych vngodly sinners haue spoken against him M. Luth. To giue iudgement against all men M. He speaketh of the second comminge of Christe for at his first comminge hee came not into the world to iudge the world but that the worlde by him might bee saued Ihon the 3. vers 17. And to rebuke all that are vngodly amonge them C. The vengeance of God that hangeth ouer the heads of the reprobate ought to keepe and conteine the chosen elect of God in feare trembling It followeth Of all their vngodly deedes Hee speaketh of their deedes and wordes because these corruptors did not only much harme and hurt by their wicked vngodly life but also by their vncleane and peruerse doctrine It followeth And of all their cruell speakinges whych vngodly sinners haue spoken against him M. These seducers speake very boldly cruelly against the comminge of the Lord they are impudent M. Luth shamelesse and to too arrogant they mocke and blaspheame him Hee calleth therefore their talking clattering cruell speakings by reason of their obstinate boldnesse their pride and malepartnesse 16. These are murmurers complainers The texte walking after their own lusts whose mouths speake prowde things they haue men in great reuerence because of aduantage These are murmurers C. Now againe he describeth these seducers by their affections Caluin L. These saith hee because

certayne wicked varlets and vngodly persons craftely crepte in amonge the professors of Christes gospell shrowding them selues vnder the name and tytle of Christianity christians who tooke it for a great pleasure to induce those that were yet weake and not throughly stablyshed and setled in the faith to a prophane contempt of God The apostle sainte Iude doth here fyrst declare that the faithfull ought not to bee troubled or dismayde with such subtile kinde of deuises and inuentions wherewith the church of Chryste and of God hath alwayes bene assaulted Imlerus I And therefore this ought not to seeme straunge Whereas now longe agoe the faythfull for this cause and for this intente haue bene fore appointed and predestinated and it hath ben foretolde by the Apostles that such kinde of men will craftely and vnwares creepe in amonge the christian flocke Caluin C. To the ende therefore they should be the more circumspecte and take diligent good heede to themselues to beware of such pestilent and crafty creepers he doth oft exhorte them and B admonish them to cōtinew and perseuere in pure and sincere religion Bullinge and to declare and shew forth the verity and truth of the gospell by good workes Caluin C. But to the intent he may make these crafty and false deceauers the more to be hated Aug. Mar● and also to be abhorred and shunned A he describeth at large not only their manners Caluin and their corrupted and wicked deuises C but also hee doth seuerely denounce vnto them the vengeance of God to be at hand such as theyr impiety and vngodlinesse doth deserue Bullinger B. But many things for the most parte are taken out of the latter epistle of S. Peter as wee sayd euen now Neyther verely ought that to seeme straunge or newes to any man for wee see euen the latter Prophets to haue red the bookes and sentences of the first yea and often tymes to vse them and to transferre many sentences and wordes of theirs into their owne writing The things therefore that are here briefly touched are handled more at large in the epistle of S. Peter Caluin C. Now if wee weigh consider diligently what Satan goeth aboute to doe in this our age also sithence the renewing and restoring againe of the gospell and what sleights and subtile deuises hee doth practize imagine to ouerthrowe and cleane to subuert the fayth and feare of God the admonitions and instructions that were profitable in Iude his time the same in these our dayes are much more necessary But all these things we shall the better learne by reading of this epistle THE TEXT Vers 1. IVdas the seruant of Iesus Christ 〈◊〉 * Imlerus Caluin Iudas beginneth his epistle afte● the maner of the other Apostles C. H● calleth himselfe the seruāt of Chris● not as 〈◊〉 name is common to all the god● myxed one with another but hee calleth hi● selfe so in respect of his Apostleship for the● are properly and peculiarly iudged to bee th● seruantes of Christe to whom he hath inio●ned any publique offyce or function So th● now wee knowe to what ende the Apostl● are accustomed to set forth them selues wi●● this tytle Rashly therefore doth he presume whosoeuer he be that taketh vpon him the office and authority of teaching that is not lawfully thereunto called The callinge therefore of the Apostles is their sufficient testimony because they intrude not them selues into the offyce of teaching by their owne priuate motion and iudgement Neither is this sufficient inough of it selfe to be placed in authority vnlesse they behaue them selues faythfully therein Which then verely they shall doe First if they declare that God is the author of their function and calling wherein they are placed Secondly if they execute the same faythfully according as they are cōmaunded But because many doe counterfayte this title namely that they are the seruauntes of Chryst and falsly bragge them selues to bee that from the which they are farre wyde wee must alwayes take good heede and see whether the thinge it selfe be answerable to their profession or not Aug. Mar. Philipp 3. vers 18.19 A. For that is most true that the Apostle S. Paule wryteth Many walke that are the ennemyes of the Crosse of Christ whose ende is destruction whose God is their belly and glory to theyr shame which minde earthly thinges It followeth in the texte The brother of Iames B. Because there were many Iudaes ●ullinger therefore hee addeth this to put a difference betwene him and other that were called after the same name Caluin C. Hee addeth to also his name because it was so famous and so well knowne of the churches for although the doctrine and authority of fayth dependeth vpon no mortall man yet notwithstāding this is a great strengthning and setting forwarde of fayth when the integrity and vprightnesse of the man that taketh vpon him the office of a teacher is wel sufficiently knowne vnto vs. Moreouer the authority of Iames is not here set forth vnder a colour as of some priuate man but because he was counted one of the cheifest Apostles Galla. 2. vers 9. among al the churches Thus hast thou both the author of this epistle and also the subscription Nowe it followeth to declare to whom hee wrought this epistle Caluin To them which are called C. By this word called he signifieth all the faythfull because the Lord hath seuered them to him selfe But because this worde calling is nothing els then the effecte of the eternall election it is some times taken for election it selfe Heere in this place it maketh no great matter if thou take it both wayes For without question hee commendeth the grace of God wherewith hee vouchedsafe to make his choyce of them to bee of his flocke and folde He signifieth also Aug. Mar. Ihon. 4.19 that men cannot preuent God neither can they come vnto him at any time till he drawe them A. For hee loued vs first Esay 65.1 And hee is dayly found of them that sought him not and appeareth vnto them which asked not after him It followeth Caluin And sanctified in God the father C. The sence and meaninge of this is that they that are called being wicked and vngodly in them selues Bullinger ●phe 2.3 haue their full sanctification in from God B. For wee are all by nature the children of wrath and vyle bondslaues to Satan But God taking pity vpon vs sent his sonne into the world which loued vs and washed vs from our sinnes in his owne bloude Caluin Aug. Mar. C. All they therefore are sanctified whom God hath regenerated by his spirite A. and grafted into the bo●● of his sonne Chryste by fayth And preserued in Iesus 〈…〉 ●rthermore he addeth that we are kept and preserued in Christe Caluin for Satan euery minute moment of an houre syeth alwayes in wayte ●o