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A87554	An exposition of the Epistle of Jude, together with many large and useful deductions. Lately delivered in XL lectures in Christ-Church London, by William Jenkyn, Minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The first part.	Jenkyn, William, 1613-1685.	1652 (1652)	Wing J639; Thomason E695_1; ESTC R37933	518,527	654

understanding Phil. 4.7 and in which the Apostle placeth the Kingdom of God Rom. 14.17 the peace that Hezekiah was not destitute of when he said Remember now O Lord Isa 38.3 I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in truth c. This peace sweetens every condition is as musick within when the rain and storms fall upon the house a friend as Ruth to Naomi that will go along with us in every distresse though we change our place our garments our conditions our companies yet our enemies cannot take this from us it s a continual feast Pro. 15.15 This peace preserves our hearts and minds in all afflictions Phil. 4.7 Psal 4.8 and puts into us a holy security and neglectivenesse of all dangers 2. Of subordination when the will affections and inclinations of a man submit themselves to the minde savingly inlightned by and subjugated to God which although it be not perfect by reason of that repugnant law in our members yet is it true and progressive the imperfection of it occasionally being an incentive to godlinesse making us more fervent in prayer humble broken-hearted and receptive of that peace we long for 4. There is a peace with God and that is twofold 1. In this life 2. In the next 1. In this life and so it is two-fold 1. A peace of Reconciliation and 2. of Contentation 1. Of Reconciliation wherby God in Christ is at one with man The chastisements of our peace were upon Christ Isa 53.5 1 John 29. the wrath deserved by us for our sins Christ sustained and satisfied divine justice fully so that now God not requiring satisfaction twice for the same offences is at peace with us Isa 9.6 Ephes 2.14 Rom. 10.15 2 Cor. 5.20 Rom. 5.1 This the foundation of all the former and following kindes of good peace is purchased by Christ the Prince of peace and our peace and proclaimed in the preaching of the Gospel the glad tidings of peace by the Ministers of it the Embassadors of peace and accepted by faith whereby we therefore enjoy and have peace with God 2. Of Contentation or holy submission by which a man is peaceable Phil. 4.11 and not murmuring or impatient against God but quietly accepting whatsoever is his will the way indeed to live a truely quiet life and as one says well ever to have our wil the waves of unquietness being ever raised by the winde of pride and unsubmissiveness 2. Peace with God in the next life or peace eternal is the perfect rest which the Saints shall enjoy in heaven called Rom. 8.6 life and peace and the rest that remaineth for the people of God their resting from their labours both inward and outward not only from hurt but from danger by nay from the presence of any thing that ever did molest them The Apostle in this salutation by peace intends principally peace with our selves that peace of God which passeth all understanding so often commended which includes peace with men commanded and peace with the other creatures promised to accompany it and peace with God presupposed as its cause and original Rom. 1.7 1 Co. 1.3 Col. 1 2 Pet. 1 2. This sanctified tranquillity quietness of conscience a singular blessing often requested by the Apostles for the faithfull to whom they wrote is of rare excellency 1. For its author and original 't is from God 1 Thess 5.23 2 Cor. 13.11 Col. 3.15 Phil. 4.7 he being called the God of peace and it the peace of God He is the authour of external peace in Church and Common-wealth the peace of Jerusalem must be begg'd of him He maketh warrs to cease and all stirs to be husht He maketh peace between us and the creatures making a covenant for us with them He is the authour of eternall peace for eternal life is the gift of God But after a speciall manner is he the God of internal peace the peace of conscience at which S. Jude aimeth for 1. He sent his Son 1 To merit it for us when we lay in the horrour of an accusing conscience who is therefore called in himself the Prince of peace Isa 9.6 Ephes 2.14 John 14.27 and in respect of us our peace and the peace we speak of is said to be his peace he making peace by slaying hatred on the cross by his perfect obedience abolishing whatsoever God might hate in us 2 He sent his Son to preach and publish this peace and to invite men to it and that first In his own person Isa 61.1 Luk. 4.18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me to preach glad tidings c. Secondly In his Ministers Ephes 2.17 Christ came and preached peace to you who were afar off he thus preaching it to the worlds end As hee sent his Son to merit and preach this peace so 2. He sent his Spirit to apply and seal this peace in the hearts of the elect it being called a fruit of the Spirit Gal. 5.22 this Spirit enabling us to cry for this peace Gal. 4.6 and working faith in our hearts whereby we have peace with God Rom. 5.1 and boldness and access to the throne of grace Eph. 3.12 creating the fruit of the lips to be peace Isa 57.19 Nothing that the world either is or hath nay neither men nor Angels can give Peace they may wish and publish it God only gives it some say there is a disease which only the King can heale I am sure a broken heart a wounded conscience can be healed only by the Prince of Peace 2. The excellency of this Peace appeares in the subject of it and that both in respect of 1 the Parties that have it and 2 the part of every of those parties in which it resides 1. The parties that enjoy it are onely the faithful It is only promised to them the true children of the Church Isa 54.13 Psal 29.11 and 37.11 Psal 85.8 Isa 26.12 Psalm 37.37 Isa 57.2 Jer. 33.6 Luke 10.6 Rom. 5.1 Psal 119.165 Isa 57.22 and 59.8 Rom. 1.7 1 Cor. 1.3 Gal. 1.3 Phil. 1.2 Col. 1.2 c. Gal. 6.16 2 Thess 1.2 Great shall be the peace of thy children The Lord will blesse his people with peace The meek shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace He will speak peace to his people Lord thou wilt ordain peace for us The end of that the upright man is peace He shall enter into peace God will reveal unto such abundance of peace 2. It s only reported of the faithful that they have peace They are the sons of peace the justified only have peace with God There is no peace to the wicked The way of peace they know not Great peace have they which love the law 3. Peace is only wished and requested for the faithfull for others either onely as they were with an eye of charity look'd upon as faithful or as in those requests the terms upon which they should obtain this peace are also included namely

strange sight 10. Observ 10. Lastly The increase of grace as well as the beginnings of it is from God The Apostle here prayes even for multiplication of grace It 's grace that must make us multiply in grace the plantation and the accretion are from the same hand When God at first made all living Creatures Qui operatur ut accedamus idem operatur ne discedamus Aug. de bon pers c. 7. Phil. 1.6 Heb. 12.2 he bestowed on them their Crescite a Blessing as well as a Being He who makes us good must make us better He who makes us come to him must also keep us from going from him He who begins the good work in us must also perform it God is both the Authour and Finisher of our faith If our graces be only put into us by God and not kept in they will soon go out God it is that must not onely set us up but keep us up Grace is like a top or a bell if God do not continue the impressions of his strength upon us and keep us up as well as raise us up we shall soon go down The strongest child in Gods family cannot go alone He it is who enables us to take the first and every step we take toward heaven we live in a constant dependency upon him he is not only the term of our journey but our way our guide our keeper in it If God should give us a stock of grace and then leave us to our selves to trade we should never thrive Adam himselfe became a bank-rupt and so should we but blessed be God our happinesse is held by a better tenure even by Christ the supplies of whose Spirit alone continue and multiply our graces This for the second particular in the third part the Paryer of the title viz. the measure in which he desired those Blessings The third and last follows viz. the persons upon whom he prayeth that these blessings may be in this measure bestowed in these words Vnto you The Apostles desire of these Blessings Explicat and the multiplication of them agrees to the persons for whom they are desired in two respects 1. In respect of their for-mentioned Priviledges Sanctification Preservation in Christ Calling 2. In respect of their after-mentioned Dangers by Seducers who were crept in among them 1. In respect of their fore-mentioned Priviledges of Sanctification c. and so the Apostle desires this multiplication of grace for them 1. Though they be sanctified they were not so fully sanctified and had not been so long preserved and called but that they still wanted a further multiplication of grace they still stood more in need of the effects of mercy more inward peace and love they had not yet attained their full measure Phil. 3.13 2. To all that are sanctified preserved c. Though they were many he wisheth that every one might have a childs portion that blessings might be multiplyed to the whole multitude of Saints that there might not be one barren among them that as God had aful hand was rich in mercy so that his bounty might be dispersed to them all 3. To them only who are sanctified They only who had grace were capable of having grace multiplyed To these only who had the Apostle wisheth that more might be given There 's no growth where there is not a truth of grace nor can these distinguishing blessings of mercy love peace be desired at all for wicked men upon the supposition of their resolution to continue and proceed to be such 4. To them because they were sanctified preserved called How sutable was it for them who had formerly received these Priviledges to multiply and increase in holinesse for them to thrive who had a stock of sanctity for them who were preserved by Christ to be kept from hurt by sin for them who were called to be holy in all manner of holy conversation 1 Pet. 1.15 as he who called them was holy 2. This desire of the multiplication of these Blessings agrees to the persons to whom it is desired in respect of their after-mentioned danger by seducers who were crept in among them 'T is observable that both Jude and Peter salute the Christians to whom they wrote with this prayer for multiplication of these spirituall blessings that since these Christians had more enemies they might have more armour than others and that their graces might be multiplyed with their dangers 1. Observ 1. The sanctification of none is in this life so compleat but it admits of multiplication Mercy peace love even to you saith the Apostle be multiplyed There 's no plenary perfection on this side heaven The highest Saint in this life is not come to the fulnesse of his measure Ephes 4.13 Phil. 3.13 Blessed Paul thought not himselfe to have apprehended The perfectest Christian is perfectly imperfect when he begins imperfectly perfect when he ends when we have done all we are unprofitable servants The fullest vessell may have more wine poured into it without any fear of bursting none must bid God stay his hand They who think they have need of nothing have truely received nothing Till the Sabbath comes we must daily be gathering Manna Nihil praesumitur actum dum superest aliquid ad agendum he that resteth in the time of labour shall labour though in vain in the time of rest A Christian is not like a top that moves by going round and not by going forward not like the Sun in Hezekiah's time that stood still but like the Sun in its naturall course that goeth forward to the perfect day We must go from strength to strength Psal 84.7 till we appear before the Lord in Sion Where there 's no growing there is some decaying While we neglect to gain we spend upon the stock Sin is continually making breaches in our graces and we must be daily making them up our garment hath daily rents and therefore it wants constant mending the dust daily falls in our houses and therefore they want frequent cleansing our hearts are like to childrens faces after every washing they soon grow foul again Sanctification is nothing but a return to our first estate to which we cannot attain till death When the sting of sinne is gone the stain cleaves close and we had need wash seven times daily to get it out 2. God hath enough grace for every one of his children Observ 2. Grace is afforded and multiplyed indifferently to one as well as another though all have not grace equally yet all truely and according to their particular exigences As every good and perfect gift is from God so in a due proportion upon every Saint None so hath all grace as that every one hath not some Christ is a head that sendeth influence into every member Ephes 4.16 1 John 12. Of his fulnesse we have all received He is an over-flowing fountain of grace which though it may be imparted yet

is not impaired The receiving of grace by one doth no more hinder the receiving thereof by another than one mans seeing of the Sun hindereth another from seeing it also God is a rich Father he giveth though not alike yet sufficient portions to all his children Our elder brother had a double portion he was anointed with the oyle of gladnesse above his fellowes Psal 45.7 but the oyntment poured upon the head fell down upon every member He who had holinesse for Abraham Moses David Peter will not suffer the least child in his house to be totally destitute They all drank of that rock which flowes toward us If we had but their thirst here 's as much water still as ever there was The people of God should neither envy one another for their fulnesse nor upbraid one another with their emptinesse but admire the wisdome and blesse the bounty of him who giveth to all though differently The whole Company of Saints is like to a well tuned instrument Varii toni in musica the strings whereof though not all of one note but some higher some lower yet all together make a sweet harmony nor can the loudest be without the smallest In what grace one is defective in that let another labour to supply In what one abounds let another labour to imitate and excell but let all adore and delight in him whose are the scatter'd excellencies bestowed upon all the Saints in the world 3. Observ 3. Where God hath begun grace he is not weary of bestowing more Mercy be multiplyed to you sanctified ones To him that hath shall be given Mark 4.25 God loves not to set up a foundation without a wall nor wals without a roofe He perfects what concerns his people and the work of the Lord is perfect Deut. 32.4 Isai 10.12 And he doth his whole work upon Mount Sion How good is God not only to do good because he will do good but because he hath done so to make one grace a kind of obligation upon himselfe to bestow another God herein resembling some magnificent King who when he hath set his love upon a favourite afterward is in love with his own choice of and bounty on him and loves him for these very favours which he hath given him John 15.2 John 1.50 Every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit Greater things saith Christ to Nathaneel thou shalt see He who killeth one lust shall kill another he who is conscionable in one duty shall be enabled to another He who hath the grace of desire shall have grace bestowed on his desire and he who hath grace to do a little shall have grace to do more God is never weary of giving He hath oyle enough for every vessell and still asketh when he hath fill'd all our vessels as that woman in the story Bring me yet a vessell The meditation whereof 2 King 4.6 as it should comfort us against our spirituall deficiencies in regard we know where to have more grace so should it incite us to proceed in holinesse and never to think we have enough or to answer as he did There is not a vessell In the best things there 's no excesse 4. Obser 4. Onely sanctified ones have the blessing of spirituall multiplication As first God gave the word of Creation before he gave the word of Benediction so doth he still spiritually Whosoever hath not Mat. 13.12 from him shal be taken away even what he hath If there be not essentia there cannot be incrementum If no truth no growth of grace Omnis germinatio supponit plantationem A stake that is meerly thrust into the ground having neither root nor life groweth in nothing but in rottennesse and this speaks the misery of one not in Christ and enlivened by the spirit of regeneration nothing doth him good he devoureth fat ordinances but hath a lean soule he is by the showers of every Sermon and Sacrament made meeter for the axe and fitter fuell for hell 5. Obser 5. Our beginning in holinesse is an Engagement upon us to go on Sanctified preserved called ones must multiply grace The beginning in the spirit must be a caution to us that we end not in the flesh If Saints be barren the Trees of Gods Ort-yard where can increase be expected A fruitlesse tree in the field may haply be born with not such an one in the garden They who are planted in the House of God Psal 92.13 14. should flourish in the Courts of our God still bring forth fruit in old age be fat and flourishing It is an unanswerable Dilemma If the wayes of God were bad why did you begin in them if good why did you not proceed They who are holy must be holy still Rev. 22.11 It 's a great disgrace for religion to be disgraced by her children to be forsaken by her followers The dispraise of any by a friend is easily believed by every one especially by an enemy to the dispraised when sanctified ones grow loose and remisse sanctity is stabb'd by the reproaches of others it is but scratched It 's excellent counsel of the Apostle that we lose not the things which we have wrought 2 Ep. John 8. Luke 22.3 As the vigilancy of Satan is to take from sanctified ones so their care must be to keep what they have gotten and to get what they want 6. Observ 6. God affords graces sutable to all the exigences of his people multiplyed grace to those who are in multiplyed difficulties and tentations My grace saith God to Paul is sufficient for thee 2 Cor. 12.9 When ever God gives a burden he provides a shoulder He never requireth brick from his people without giving them straw He will either multiply grace or diminish the tentation He bids his people up and eat if he sends them a long journey Those Saints of his whom he hath employed in winter seasons he hath ever cloathed with winter garments commonly the best men have lived in the worst times and Gods stars have shined brightest in the darkest ages The faithfull have been more then conquerours in conflicts both with persecuters and seducers Rom. 8.37 And truely grace multiplyed is much better than tentation either asswaged or removed VER 3. Beloved when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation it was needfull for me to write unto you and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered to the Saints VVE have finished the first part of this Epistle viz. the Title The second follows the Body and Substance of the whole Epistle wherein the Apostles scope is to incite these Christians to imbrace a seasonable Exhortation to the 24th verse of the Epistle In it there are four principall parts two of them contained in this third verse 1. The Reasons of the Apostles sending this Exhortation to