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A89503	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.	Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.	1657 (1657)	Wing M530; Thomason E930_1; ESTC R202855	471,190	600

measure of faith loose hopes weaken endeavors 1 Cor. 9. 26. Irun not as one uncertain Those that ran a race gave over when one had far out-gone them as being discouraged and without hope When hope is broken the edg of endeavors is blunted Go on with confidence you are assured of the issue God will bless you and keep you to his everlasting Kingdom 5. In the hour of death when all things else fail you God will not fail you this is the last brunt do but wait a little while and you will find more behind then ever you enjoyed death shall not separate as Olevian comforted himself with that Isai 54. 10. The hills and mountains may depart but my loving-kindness shall not depart from you being in the agonies of death he said Sight is gone speech and hearing is departing feeling is almost gone but the loving-kindness of God will never depart The Lord give us such a confidence in that day that we may dye glorying in the Preservation of our Redeemer VERSE II. Mercy unto you and Peace and Love be multiplyed WE are now come to the third thing in the Inscription and that is the form of salutation delivered as all Apostolical salutations are in the way of a prayer In which we may observe 1. The matter of the prayer or blessings prayed for which are three Mercy Peace and Love 2. The manner or degree of enjoyment be multiplyed I begin with the matter or blessings prayed for It will not be altogether unuseful to observe that diversity which is used in salutations In the Old Testament peace was usually wished without any mention of grace as Psal 122. 8. For my brethrens and companions sake I will say Peace be within thee and ●an 6. 25. Peace be multiplyed unto you But in the times of the Gospel grace being more fully delivered that was also added and expressed in the forms of salutation but yet in the times of the Gospel there is some variety and difference Sometimes you shall meet with a salutation meerly civil as James 1. 1. To the twelve Tribes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 greeting so Acts 15. 23. which was the usual salutation among the Heathen but most usually 't is grace and peace and in other places grace mercy and peace as 2 John 3. and 1 Tim. 1. 2. and here it differeth from them all for 't is mercy peace and love And Causaubon observeth that the Greek Fathers if they wrote to a earnal man they would wish him grace but not peace if to a godly man they would wish him grace and peace too To touch upon these things is sufficient From these Blessings mentioned in this place I shall observe something in general and then handle them particularly and apart First In the general Consideration you may observe 1. That spiritual blessings are the best blessings that we can wish to our selves and others The Apostles in their salutations do not wish temporal felicity but spiritual grace Gods people pray for one another out of the communion of the Spirit and for themselves out of a principle of the divine Nature and therefore they do not seek wealth and honour for themselves or one another but increase of Gods favour and Image 'T is true Nature is allowed to speak in prayer but grace must be heard first our first and chiefest requests must be for mercy peace and love and then other things shall be added to us the way to be heard in other things is first to beg for grace Psal 21. 4. He asked life of thee and thou gavest him length of days for ever Solomon sought wisdom and together with it found riches and honour in great abundance Well then if thou prayest for thy self make a wise choyce beg for spiritual blessings so David prayeth Psal 106. 4. Remember me O Lord with the favour that thou bearest unto thine own people nothing less would content him then Favorites mercy other blessings are dispensed out of common pity to the generality of men but these are mercies privilegiate and given to Favorites now saith David of this mercy Lord no common blessing would serve his turn So Psal 119. 132. Look upon me and be merciful to me as thou usest to do to those that love thy Name Surely that which God giveth to his people that 's a better mercy then that which God giveth to his enemies Again these are mercies that cost God dearer they flow to you in the Blood of his own Son yea they are mercies that are better in themselves wealth and honour may become a burden yea life it self may become a burden but not mercy not grace not peace of Conscience and therefore they are better then life Psal 63. 3. then wealth then honour none ever complained of too much mercy of too much love of God These are blessings that swallow up other miseries yea the loss of other blessings grace with poverty 't is a preferment peace of Conscience with outward troubles is an happy condition if there be a flowing of spiritual comforts as there is an ebbing of outward comforts we are not much wronged therefore first seek these bleseings Again If you pray for others pray for grace in the first place that 's an evidence of spiritual affection Carnal men wish such things to others as they prize and affect themselves so also do gracious men and therefore their thoughts run more upon mercy peace and grace then wealth and honour and greatness When a man sendeth a token to a friend he would send the best of the kind These are the best mercies if you were to deal with God for your own Souls you can ask no better You may ask temporal things for God loveth the prosperity of his Saints but these special blessings should have the preferment in your wishes and desires of good to them and then you are most likely to speed Our Lord Christ in the 17 of John commendeth the Colledg of the Apostles to the Father and what doth he ask for him dominion and worldly respect Surely no nothing but preservation from evil and sanctification by the Truth these are the chiefest Blessings we should look after as Christians Observe again the aptness of the requests to the persons for whom he prayeth Those that are sanctified and called have still need of mercy peace and love They need mercy because we merit nothing of God neither before grace received nor afterward the very continuance of our glory in Heaven is a fruit of mercy not of merit our obligation to free-grace never ceaseth We need also more peace there are degrees in assurance as well as faith there is a temperate confidence and there are ravishing delights so that peace needs to be multiplyed also And then love that being a grace in us 't is always in progress in Heaven only 't is compleat Take it for love to God there we cleave to him without distraction and weariness or satiety

holy and just then he is strict and holy and just now He that struck An●nias and Saphyra dead in the place for a lie that made Z●chary dumb for unbelief that kept Moses out of the land of Promise for a few unadvised w●rds that turned Lot's wi●e into a Pillar of Salt for looking back is the same God still not a jot altered his judgements may be more spiritual but then more terrible Again Answerable practises make us partakers of their guilt and therefore involve us in their punishment● Imitation is an evidence of approbation A man may have more sins charged upon him then those committed in his own person you are partakers of their evil deeds that lived before you if you do as they did it may be the memory of those that formerly fell under the weight of Gods displeasure is execrable to you yet your walking in the same course is a signe that you like their practises and therefore you must expect their judgements with advantage and usury Matth. 23. 35. That upon you may come all the righteous blood that was shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachia● whom ye slew between the Temple and the Altar Why upon them And how did they slay him No doubt the memory of Cum was accursed among the Jews but they walked in the way of Cain and so were to receive Cain's judgement with advantage No doubt the memory of the murtherers of Zechariah the Prophet was hateful to them but they continued Prophet-killing and Prophet-huting and therefore did implicitely approve his murder and so are said to slay him Jude 1● 't is said These perished in the gain saying of Kora● How can that be when they were not as yet born These Seducers lived long after but following them in their sin in their rui●e they had a sure pledge of their own destruction when we see others fall into a deep pit and yet will adventure the same way as we sin the worse so our judgement will be the greater Well then Let us make every instance of the word à warning and apply it for our Use 't is excellent when we read the Scriptures with a spirit of Application in the miscarriage of others we have experience at a cheap rate and in their misery we have as sure a proof of the evil of sin though not as costly as if we had felt it our selves Again When wicked men flourish be not dismayed How hath God judged sinners of like kind What say your Scripture presidents I went into the Sanctuary there I understood their end Psal 73. 17. Again it sheweth how vain their conceit is that God will not deal so severely with us if we continue in our sins as he hath done with others in former times when the Scriptures were written Gods judgments I confess are more spiritual but every way as severe to them that continue in their sins heretofore they were written with death now with deadness Nadab and Abihu were quickly dispatched for their unhallowed approaches to God in worship many come now that do not sanctifie God in their hearts their judgement is more spiritual the Ordinances which should quicken harden them Bears devoured the children that mocked the Prophet many sit taunting by the walls that are not torn ●n pieces by Bears but they are posting to hell apace tarry but a little while and God will tear them in pieces ●nd there shall be none to deliver Psal 50. Korah Dathan and Abiram were swallowed up quick the earth cleaves to receive them that made a cleft in the Congregation Many act as tumultuously as they and no doubt their day is coming Lot's wife whose heart hankred after her possessions was turned into a pillar of Salt for looking back They that revert and after they are embarked with Christ run ashore again assoon as they see a storm a coming shall have their reward in due time The next thing which I observe in these instances is The impartiali●y of Divine Justice for in all the examples brought there are some circumstances upon which others would expect an exemption from wrath as the interest of the Israelites they were God's own people the dignity of the Angels they were as it were fellows of God and Courtiers of Heaven the beauty and excellency of the country of Sodom and in all the instances ye may observe the judgements fell on multitudes and societies or collective B●dies All the murmuring ●sraelites All the Apostate Angels All the Inhabitants of the four Cities Observe then That no outward Priviledge can avail us in the day of wrath and so 1. Gods ●ustice knoweth no relations He spared not Christ Rom. 8. 32. He spared not the Angels 2 Pet. 2. 5. He spared not his people of Israel c. 2. None have a priviledge to sin and th●●efore none are exempted from punishment the Law includeth all the Son the Servant them that sit on the Throne and those that grinde at the Mill none have a license from heaven and a priviledge to sin above others 3. Wicked men do not spare God and therefore God doth ●●t spare them They abuse his Justice his Mercy they spare not his glory his Laws and as they are impartial in sinning no restraints with-hold them so God is impartial in punishing Lean not then upon these reeds when wrath maketh inquisition for sinners outward privile●ges are of no use 't is happy for them alone that are found in Christ Phil. 3. the Avenger of blood had nothing to do with the man-slayer in the Ci●y of Refuge when God is about to strike no●e but Christ can hold the blow See the vanity of other things 1 Outward Profession is nothing your Circumcision becometh uncircumcision God disclaimeth interest in a sinful people Thy people which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt saith God to Moses when they had corrupted themselves Exod. 32. 7. in scorn and disdain Thy people he will not own them for his Sheep Deut. 32. 5. 2. No dignity can exempt us the Angels were cast down t● places of darkness Dignity doth not lessen but aggravate sin where much is giv●n much is owed and much will be required Tophet is prepared for Kings for Princes is it prepared 3. Not outward excellency as the pleasant Land of Sodom The Disciples thought the goodly buildings of the Temple would move Christ to pity Luk. 21. 5 6. but Christ telleth them not one stone should be left upon another Saul was checked for sparing the best Justice is not dazled with outward splendor The Lord threatneth to punish the dainty Daughters of Sion with a scab Isa 3. 17. c. 4. Not any society or multitudes of m●n He spared not the old world 2 Pet. 2. 5. No leagues and combinations can maintain your cause against God though the wicked go hand in hand they shall not scape unpunish●d Pro.