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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

they measure felicity in things pertayning outwardly to the body L. Pelycane if any trouble or affliction doe happen vnto them by and by they are offended they waxe impacient they murmur against God they complaine of the shortnes of a mans life that it is subiect to so many diseases miseries and calamities wishing that it were longer not oppressed with so many euills as who would say being without hope of the life to come ●luin C. And because they delight themselues in wicked lusts and desires they become waiward and froward hard to bee pleased they are neuer at quiet Herehence commeth their murmuring cōplaining they are neuer satisfied let men doe what they can to please them It followeth And their mouth speaketh proud things I. That is ●lerus they come in with their high and lofty words they set forth them selues very proudly and braggingly they play the partes of Thrasoes out-right ●ullinger B. They tel vs wonderfull strange oracles concerninge vertues lore neuer heard of before and all to deceaue vs and yet they loue neyther truth nor vertue in dede from the hart It followeth They haue men in great reuerence because of aduantage C. Here he sheweth that they are of a myserable disposition because they would doe any seruile worke for lucres sake Caluin And cōmonly this inequality or greedines by which they differ from other men is to bee seene in such Pesants as these be and yet notwithstandinge when there is no man to check or controule them their insolencie and pryde is intollerable they take much vpon them they are very imperious But such as they feare and stand in awe of if they bee in hope of any thinge to be gotten by them those they doe shamefully flatter and smoth and soothe with sweete and fayre words Bulling● B. They speake not according to the truth matter it selfe but such thinges as are pleasaunt vnto them of whom they hope to reape some benefit or cōmodity They are therefore clawbacks most shameles flatterers because they haue men in great reuerence admiration for aduātage Then the which kinde of men there are none more blind Caluin A. Mar none more wicked C. Person is here taken for any great man or noble man A whereof S. Iames 2. vers 1. 17. The tex● But yee beloued remember the woordes which were spoken before of the Apostles of our Lord Iesus Christe 18. How that they told you that there should be mockers in the last time which should walke after their owne vngodly lustes But yee beloued remēber I. Now he exhorteth those to whom he writeth Imlerus Bulling● B to beware of these deceauers of their great impiety vngodlines Caluin C and therfore addeth the admonitions and forewarninges both of the Prophets of olde time and also of the Apostles sayinge Remember the wordes which were spoken before of the Apostles L. Let this bee an argument of no force Pely●ne against the author of this epistle to proue him to be none of the Apostles sith the old father speaketh here of the Apostles accordinge to the cōmon manner as they that haue preached longe before him so that it is not to be thought iniurious that this author maketh mention of the other Apostles of a singuler modesty whereby his meaning was that men should not so much credit and beleeue him as other of the Apostles speaking and writinge the like and the selfe same things of false preachers and false Apostles ●lling B. And therefore it is diligently to bee noted marked that this worthy Apostle is not ashamed to vse as his owne yea and to alleage also the writinges sayings of his fellowe Apostles But in these our daies a man may finde many proude arrogant fellowes that think great disdaine to vse other mens sayinges bee they neuer so good godly nay they think nothing well spoken or done but that that cometh from them selues It followeth How that they tolde you A. Iudas here speaketh Aug. Mar not onely of the liuely preaching of the worde but also of the wrytings of th'Apostles them selues That there should bee mockers in the last times C. He vnderstandeth that to be the last time Caluin wherein the state and condition of the church being renued hath receaued a firme sure promise of continuance euen to the ende of the world beginninge from the first comming of Christe A of the which matter S. Paule speaketh euery where but specially in the 1. Corin. 10. Aug. Ma● chap. vers 11. And in the 1. to Tymo chap. 4. vers 1. and 1. of Tymo chap. 3. vers 1. There shall come mockers C. He calleth them mockers after the vsuall maner of speaking in the scriptures Caluin which being drunken as it were with wicked prophaning contemning of the name of God do breake forth into al kinde of beastly behauiour so that no religion can keepe or cōtaine them within the limites of their duty the reason is because they feare not at all in their mindes the iudgement to come they haue no hope in them of the blessed and euer during life Euen as at this day the world is full euery where of such Epicures contemners despisers of God which shaking of altogether all reuerence and godly feare doe very wickedly and maliciously scorne and mocke at the doctrine of piety as though it were a tale or fable that is tolde Bullinger B. Of this S. Peter speaketh very plentifully in his second epistle the third Chap. verse the third ●he texte 19. These are makers of sects fleshly hauing not the spirite Caluin These are makers C. Some greeke bookes hath the participle absolutely some doe adde the greeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but in the same sence almost for he vnderstandeth such as seuer thē selues from the church they will haue no discipline exercised therein they are altogether geuen to the flesh and not to the spirite M. Luth. M. Hee alludeth to that saying of Peter they bring in damnable sects For there bee som the study and occupy their braines about nothinge els but how they may cause diuision in the Church of God to breake the vnity of the faith as for the cōmon order taken amongst Christians how euery man may please his neighbour that they l●●●ot they cannot abyde it but as touching their owne inuentions deuises of their own making which is nothing but hypocrisie and false seruing of God that pleaseth them wonderously well It followeth Fleshly minded Caluin hauinge not the spirite C. Here minde in this place as it signifieth the life of man geuen to fleshlinesse so it is opposite or contrary to the spirite and therefore it signifieth here corruption of nature such as is in men not yet regenerated for this degenerate nature of ours which wee haue receaued and drawne as it were from our first parentes is