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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

heart be opprest with sins in the mean time and be not upright with God 1 Cor. 13. 1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and Angels and have not charity I am become but as a sounding Brass and tinkling Cymbal Though you can speak of the things of God with much enlargement and affection pray sweetly all is but as tinkling with God if there be not saving grace It is a great evidence that we are such as the Apostle speaketh of when the affection doth not answer the expression of a duty nor the life our knowledg and gifts have not a proportionable influence upon practise So much for that Point Having spoken of the State I come now to speak of the Author of it God the Father But why is it so distinctly attributed to the Father is not Christ our Sanctification 1 Cor. 1. 30. and is it not called the Sanctification of the Spirit 2 Thes 2. 14. The Answer shall draw out the strength of the phrase in these Propositions 1. It is true that the whole Trinity one way or other concurreth to the work of holiness those works ad extra are indivisa common to all the Persons the Father sanctifieth the Son sanctifieth and the Holy Ghost sanctifieth the same may be said of preserving and calling 2. Though all work joyntly yet there are distinct personal operations by which they make way for the glory of each other the love of the Father for the glory of the Son and the glory of the Son for the power of the Spirit See how the Scripture followeth these things You shall find first that no man cometh to the Son but from the Father by Election Iohn 6. 37. All that the Father giveth shall come to me so vers 65. No man cometh unto me unless it be given him of my Father Look again and you shall find that no man cometh to the Father from the bondage of sin and Satan but by the Son through his Redemption and Mediation John 14. 6. I am the Way the Truth and the Life no man cometh unto the Father but by me Again you shall see no man is united to the Son but by the Holy Ghost who worketh in those whom the Father did choose and the Son redeem and therefore the Sanctification of the Spirit is as necessary as the Blood of Jesus 1 Pet. 1. 2. So that you see all have their distinct work the Inchoation is from the Father the Dispensation by the Son and the Consummation by the Spirit from the Father in the Son and through the Spirit there is Gods choyce Christs purchase and the Spirits application all are joyned in one Verse for indeed they must not be severed even in the place last alledged 1 Pet. 1. 2. 3. Because the first distinct operation is the Fathers therefore the whole work in Scripture is often ascribed to him he is said to justifie The Iustifier of them that beleeve in Iesus Rom. 3. 26. So he is said elsewhere to purge Iohn 15. 1 2. I am the Vine and my Father is the Husbandman he purgeth it that it may bring forth more fruit All dependeth upon the decree of his love Christ doth not work upon a person unless he be given to him by the Father and therefore he being first in order and operation the whole work is made his work Sanctified in God the Father Observe That Sanctification is Gods work wrought in us by the Father To cleanse the heart is beyond the power of the creature it can no more make it self holy then make its self to be We could defile our selves but we cannot cleanse our selves as the sheep can go astray of its self but it can never return to the fold without the shepherds care and help Lusts are too hard for us and so are the duties of obedience God that gave us his Image at first must again plant it in the Soul Who can repair Nature depraved but the Author of Nature When a Watch is out of order we send it to the Workman We are his workmanship in Christ Ephes 2. 10. God taketh it to be his Prerogative Levit. 21. 8. I am the Lord that sanctifieth thee Grace is his immediate creature Mans will contributeth nothing to the work but resistance and rebellion and outward means work not unless God put in with them else why should the same Word preached by the same Minister work in some and harden others all the difference ariseth from Gods grace which acteth according to pleasure Well then 1. Let us wait upon God till the work be accomplished Our wills are obstinate and perverse but God never made a creature too hard for himself he is able to do this thing for us and 't is our comfort we have such a God to go to The Heathens that groped and felt after God were to seek of a power to quell their lusts and therefore were put upon sad remedies whereas all is made easie to you in the power of God through Christ Crates gave this advice to one that came to him to know how he should subdue the lust of uncleanness he answered that he should either famish himself or hang himself they knew no remedy but offering violence to Nature or else death and despair Democritus blinded himself because he could not look upon women without lusting after them Now God teacheth us to put out the eye of our lust not of our bodies Bless God that you know whose work it is and to whom to go for Sanctification 2 Vse Praise the Lord when ever this work is accomplished Not I but grace it must not be ascribed to our works or to any power that is in our selves but to Gods mercy Christs merits and the Spirits efficacy There is Gods grant To her it was granted to be covered with fine linnen the righteousness of the Saints Rev. 19. 18. God the Father giveth leave or issueth forth an Authentick Act and Decree in the Court of Heaven as Esther by the grant of the King was supplyed out of the Kings Wardrobe Then there is Christs merit the stream wherein we are washed floweth out of Christs own heart 1 John 1. 7. The Blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sin Then there is the Spirits efficacy no less power will vanquish the proud heart of man 'T is notable that grace is expressed not only by the notion of Creation which is a making things out of nothing but also by Victory or a powerful overcoming of opposition In Creation as there was nothing to help so there was nothing to resist and hinder but in man there is besides a death of sin a life of resistance against grace therefore Sanctification must entirely be ascribed to God we deserve it not it cometh from the Fathers good-will and Christs merit we work i● not 't is accomplished by the power of the Holy Ghost Again observe That though the work of grace be immediately

great judgements if great sins come between as after their deliverance out of Aegypt they were destroyed for Vnbelief This may be proved from Christ's advice to the man cured on the Sabbath d●y John 5. 14. Thou art made whole sin no more lest a worse thing come unto th●e There is the mercy the duty thence inferred and the judgm●nt that doth avenge the quarrel of the abused mercy Often it cometh to pass that many mens preservation is but a reservation to a worse thing to a greater judgement So see Joshua 24. 20. He will turn again and do you hurt after he hath done you good So Isa 63. 10. He b●re them in the arms of his Providence but they rebelled and vexed his spirit and he was turned to be their enemy None usually have greater judgements then such as formerly have had sweet experience of mercy Why There is no hatred so great as that which ariseth out of the corruption of love Disappointed love abused love groweth outragious When Amnon hated Tamar 't is said The hatred wherewith he hated her was greater then the love where with he loved her As 't is thus with men such a proportionable severity we may observe in the Dispensations of God after a taste of his mercies Joshua 23. 15. It shall come to pass as all good things are come upon you which the Lord your God promised you so the Lord shall bring all evil things upon you until he hath destroyed you when ye have transgressed the Covenant of the Lord your God No evils like those evils which come after mercy No sins are so great as those sins which are committed against mercies there is not only filthiness in them but unkindness Psal 106. 7. They provoked him at the Sea even at the red Sea Mark 't is ingeminated for the more vehemency that at the Sea even at the red Sea where they had seen the miracles of the Lord and had experirience of his glorious deliverance that there they durst break out against God See the contrary in Judges 2. 7. Certainly the more restraints the greater the offence when we sin not only against the laws of God but the loves of God c. Well then 1 It informeth us that there may be danger after deliverance there are strange changes in providence Man in his best estate is altogether vanity Psal 39. When you are at your best as the Sun at the highest there may be a Declension 2. 'T is a warning to those that enjoy mercies Sin no more lest a worse thing come unto you The next judgement will be more violent There are some special sins which you should beware of even those which testifie our unthankfulness after the receipt of mercies As 1. Forgetting the vows of our Misery Jacob voweth Gen. 28. 22. but he forgets his vow and what followed Horrible disorders and confusions in his Family Dinah deflowred Reuben goeth into his Fathers Bed a murder committed upon the Sichemites under a pretence of Religion and then Jacob remembreth his Vow We promise much when we want deliverance and when we have it God is neglected but he will not put it up so by sad and disastrous accidents he puts us in mind of our old promises 2. When you kiss your own hand bless your dragge ascribe it to your merit and power Habb 1. 16. Deut. 9. 4. for these things are our mercies blasted 3. When we grow proud self confident If you were never so high God will bring you low enough 't is a great skill to know how to abound She remembred not her last end therefore she came down wonderfully Lam. 1. 4. when we forget the changes and mutations to which all outward things are obnoxious God will give us an experience of them 4. When you continue in your sins the judgement is but gone cum animo revertendi to come again in a worse manner See Psal 106. 43. 2. The next observation is taken from the cause of their destruction intimated in those words that believed not Many were the peoples sins in the wilderness murmuring fornication rebellion c. But the Apostle comprehendeth all under this they believed not Vnbelief is charged upon them as the root of all their miscarriages elsewhere as Numb 14. 11. and Deut. 1. 32. Whence observe That unbelief bringeth destruction or is the cause of all the evil which we do or suffer In handling this point I shall open 1. The hainousness of Vnbelief 2. The Nature of it 3. The Cure of it 1. The hainousness of the sin that we will consider in general or more particularly The general considerations are these 1. No sin doth dishonour God so much as unbelief doth 't is an interpretative blasphemy a calling into question of his mercy power justice but especially of his truth 1 John 5. 10. He that believeth not God hath made him a lyar You judge him a person not fit to be credited the giving of the lye is accounted the greatest injury and disgrace amongst men for truth is the ground of commerce and humane society So that to say a man is a lyar is as much as to say a man is unfit to keep company with men But especially is this a great injury to God because he standeth more upon his word then upon any other part of his name Psal 138. 2. He hath magnifyed his word above all his Name We have more experience of God in making good his word then in any other thing As faith honoureth God so doth unbelief dishonour him what God doth to the creature that doth faith to God God justifieth sanctifieth glorifieth the creature and faith is said to justifie God Luke 7. 29. To justifie is to acquit from accusation So doth faith acquit Gods truth in the word from all the jealousies which the carnal world and our carnal hearts do cast upon him Faith is said to sanctifie God Numb 20. 12. To sanctifie is to set a part from common use and God is sanctified when we set God aloof above all ordinary and common causes and can believe that he will make good his word when the course of all things seems to contradict it Faith is said to glorifie God Rom. 4. 20. We glorifie him declaratively when we give him all that excellency which the word giveth him Now because unbelief accuseth God limiteth him to the course of second causes and denyeth him his glory therefore is it so hainous and hateful to God 2. 'T is a sin against which God hath declared most of his displeasure Search the Annals surveigh all the monuments of time see if ever God spared an Unbeliever Hence in the wilderness the Apostle saith they were destroyed for Vnbelief Many were their sins in the Wilderness Murmurings Lustings Idolatry but the main reason of their punishment was they believed not look to their final excision and cutting off why was it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for unbelief were they broken off Rom. 11.