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A87557	An exposition of the epistle of Jude, together with many large and usefull deductions. Formerly delivered in sudry lectures in Christ-Church London. By William Jenkyn, minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and pastor of the church at Black-friars, London. The second part.; Exposition of the epistle of Jude. Part 2	Jenkyn, William, 1613-1685.	1654 (1654)	Wing J642; Thomason E736_1; ESTC R206977	525,978	703

Pelagius altered his opinions concerning Grace and Hilary reports of Arius that he had menstruam fidem for every month a sundry faith as if he had swallowed Moons that he was never consistent to and with himself before the Councel he held for the Divinity of Christ among his companions otherwise Thus the Apostle complains of the Galatians for their being so soon removed unto another Gospel 1 Gal. 6. and warnes his Ephesians chap. 4.14 that they should not be carried about c. and Peter 2 Pet. 2.14 mentions unstable souls Oft from Brownism men wander to Anabaptism from thence to Arminianism thence to Socinianisme and Arminianisme and then they become Seekers or rather indeed loosers of themselves just nothing as a thin empty cloud they are tossed so long up and down by winds that at length they come to nothing at all Their heads are like Inns and their opinions like Travellers which oft lodg not above one night in them like wax they take any new impression It s bard to say whether they are pluralists or neutralists in Religion and as hard to please them in any opinion as to make a Coat that should constantly fit the Moon They know they shall dy but in what faith they know not One error is ever a bridg to another 2 Pet. 3.16 They are called unlearned and unstable and therefore such as wrest the Scriptures whence its plain that by unstable he means such as were not grounded in the Faith and Learning of the Truth Hymeneus and Philetus who once held the Truth concerning the Resurrection afterward erred concerniag the Faith saying that the Resurrection was past already 2 Tim. 2.18 2. They might be carried about and unstable in respect of their affections the goodnesse whereof was onely by fits and pangs sometimes they were fire-hot perhaps in Religion soon after stone-cold their heat like that in the fit of an ague is not from nature but distemper and therefore though violent yet not permanent they resemble the Mariners Psal 107.26 of whom the Psalmist speaks that at one time they are mounted up to heaven and presently fall down again into the depths like David who in his youth was full of Spirits and vigor but in his old age grew cold and chilly these who somtime seem'd fervent in spirit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 now are cold in their affections and come to a state of indifferency and neutrality and frame to themselves such a moderation as will just serve the scantling of the times They were they say forward and foolish in the heat of their youth to oppose sin but now they see their error and admire their present staiednesse and the golden mean which they have attained Thus it was with those unsettled Galatians who at first could have pull'd out their eyes for Paul Gal. 4.16 soon after counted him an eye-sore their enemy fortelling them the truth The Church of Ephesus had left her first love Rev. 2.4 Thus Alexander who as some think for his zeal against Diana the Heathens Idol Qui martyrio propinquus erat perfidum sceleratum apostatam factum videmus Cal. in Ac. 19. formidabile exemplum or as others for his noted love towards Paul was like to have been torn in pieces as a Martyr afterwards as Calvin thinks became Pauls deadly adversary 2 Tim. 4.14 and would have martyred him Johns hearers rejoyced in his light for a season Affections raised upon no true grounds will soon fall and by so much the greater will the fall be by how much the higher the building was They who have been sometimes more then Christians in their fervor for afterwards have proved worse then heathens in fury against the truth 3. They might be carried about and unstable in their practices very strict and precise in their carriage at the first very loose and profane afterwards Seducers grew from better to worse or as the Apostle speaks worse and worse 2 Tim. 3.13 golden professors haply in their youth silver in their middle age leaden in their old age They set out well but did not hold out at all so appearingly consciencious at the first that the very appearances of sin were shun'd so really wicked at last that the greatest abominations are not scrupled and they are grown so strong that their stomacks can digest those impieties with the very sight whereof heretofore they seem'd to be sick How frequently hath the glorious the morning beginnings of Christian Profession been overcast with the darknesse and gloomy cloudinesse of prophanenesse before the evening Many who have been elevated to a high pitch of Profession have faln like clouds into some dirty lane or slough of uncleannesse and loosnesse Gal. 3.3 They begin in the flesh and end in the flesh though they seem'd to have escapt the pollutions of the world and to be washt from their filthinesse yet they return with the dog to their vomit 2 Pet. 2.22 and with the sow to their wallowing in the mire 2. Plurium conflictus ventorum Lorin Impetuosus turbo Geth Luke 8 23. Mar. 4.37 Hebr. 13.9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For the second by what they were carried about and unsetled viz. By the windes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies any blast which blows in the air but Peter 2 Pet. 2.17 saith they are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 carried with a tempest the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 properly signifying a whirlwind not one wind but a conflict of many winds It s used by the Evangelists in the describing the tempest miraculously appeased and calmed by Christ There were several sorts of winds and tempests wherewith these Seducers were carried about 1. The wind of strange doctrines this is noted by the Apostle Hebr. 13.9 where he warns the Christians that they be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines And Eph. 4.14 with every wind of doctrine Every doctrine which was new was by them entertained as true They had itching ears delighted with novelty not obedient ears attentive to profitable truths whence it was that every new doctrine carried them a several way and that they meeting with several new Doctrines were hurried round as in a whirlwind and knew not where to rest The Divel pleased them like children with change of toyes The true Gospel was neglected for another as Paul speaks Gal. 1.6 they were of the same mind with him who taught them last they were meer moveables in the Church like the water ever of the same figure with the vessel into which its put like a company of cyphers which signifie what it pleaseth the Figure which is put before them 2. Seducers are carried about with the wind of fear to save their skins they car'd not what they held taught did they were impatient of persecution Thus speaks the Apostle of these seducers Gal. 6.12 They constrain you to be circumcised lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of

as lyes or at the best as Conjecturall uncertainties but our faith must take into its vast comprehension Gods whole revealed will part whereof is this of the last judgement The last and dreadfull judgement will never affright us from sin if we look upon it in the devils dress of uncertainty for then we shall but sport with it and make it our play-fellow in stead of our monitor Let us therefore labour to make it by prayer and meditation to sink into our hearts Si nunc omne peccatum manifestâ plecter●tur poenâ nihil ultimo judicio reservari crederetur rursus si nullum peccatum nunc puni ret apertè divinitas nulla esse divina providentia putaretur Aug. de Civ Dei cap 8. and to beleeve it though never so distant from or opposite to sense taking heed lest the deferring thereof and the present impunity of sinners destroy or damp our belief of Christs coming to judgment considering that if every offender should now be openly punished men would think that nothing would be reserved to the last judgment as on the contrary if no offender should be plagued men would beleeve that there were no providence And let us beware lest we make that concealment of the last judgment to be an occasion of sin which God intends should be an incentive to repentance This briefly for the note of incitement c. Behold The description of the judgment followes Rev. 1. Jo. 5.27 and in that first of the first part The coming of the judg to judgment in these words The Lord cometh with ten thousands of his Saints EXPLICATION And here 1. the Title 2. Approach 3. Attendance of the Judg are all worthy of consideration by way of explication 1. Tune manifestè veniet judicaturus justè qui occultè venerat judicandus injustè Aug. Of the title Lord I have spoken very largely before pag. 344 c. p. 1. Of the greatness of this Lord the Judg as he is God and man I have also spoken pag. 527 528 529. The reasons also why he shal even as man judge the world I have mentioned p. 525 526 528. and how he excludes not Father and holy Ghost Nor wil it be needful here again to repeat the fitness of Christ for judicature Rev. 6.16 1 Jo. 2.28 Rev. 5.9 Rev. 19.11 Psal 45.6 2 Cor. 5.10 Rev. 1.14 1 Cor. 4.5 in respect of his advancement after his humiliation the necessity that the judicial proceeding should be visible the great horror and amazement of his enemies the comfort of the Saints the excellent qualifications of this judg in regard of his righteousnesse omniscience strength and fortitude c. 2. For the second therefore Act. 1.11.10.42.17.13 Aoristum secundum ponit pro futuro the Approach of the Judg in the word cometh Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in which word Jude puts the signification of the time past for the time to come after the manner of the Prophets who are wont to speak of those things which are to come as if they were already past and this he doth for two reasons First to note the certainty of Christs coming to judgment it being as sure as if it were already Concerning this certainty of the coming of Christ to judgment I have spoken already pag. 536 Part 1. and in several pages before 2. Secondly to shew the nearness thereof Christs coming is at hand 1 Cor. 7 the time is short saith Paul its sails almost wound up The Judge stands at the doors He that shal come wil come and wil not tary If he were coming in Enochs time if in the first what is he then in the last times as these are frequently called come Lord Jesus come quickly Behold I come quickly Rev. 3.11 The Brides prayer and the Bridegrooms promise are both for speedy coming Rev. 1.7 Behold he cometh with clouds c. not shall come he is as good as come already Christ cometh to us either in spirit or in person 1. In Spirit he cometh 1. In the Ministry to win and perswade us to come unto him thus he went and preached in Noahs time to the spirits now in prison 1 Pet. 3.19 2. In some special manifestation of his presence in mercy or judgment The former when he meets us with comfort strength and increase of grace John 14.18.23 The later in testification of displeasure Rev. 2.16 John 16.8 2. In person he comes two waies 1. in carnem 2. in carne 1. Into flesh in humility in his incarnation to be judged 2. In flesh in glory at the last day to judg all flesh Where consider 1. Whence he cometh Where consider 2. Whither he cometh Where consider 3. When he cometh 1. Whence he cometh from heaven 1 Thes 4.16 The Lord himself shall descend from heaven he shall come in the clouds of heaven to heaven he ascended and from heaven wil he descend Acts 1.11 This Jesus which is taken from you into heaven shall so come as ye have seen him go into heaven And its necessary that Christ should come from heaven to judg because it is not meet that the wicked should come thither to him though to be judged for into that holy place can no unclean thing enter 2. Whither cometh he some think that the judgment seat shal be upon the earth that the sentence may be given where the faults have been committed and that in some place neer Jerusalem where the judg was formerly unjustly condemned and particularly some think it shal be in the valley of Jehoshaphat though that place Joel 3.12 contains but an allegorical or typical prophesie The Apostle seems to intimate that the place of judgment shal be in the air 1 Thes 4.17 where he mentions our being caught up to meet the Lord in the air it being probable that the judgment shall be in that place where we shall meet the judg in the clouds of the air and the Scripture saith he shall come in the clouds of heaven and then the divels shal be conquered and sentenced in the very place wherein they have ruled all this while as princes but over what place it seems to me a rashness to determine 3. When shal he come In the end of the world but the particular age day or year is not known to man or Angel Mark 13.32 this secret the Spirit revealed not to nor taught the Apostles who yet were led by him into all necessary truths and Christ must come as a thief in the night and as in the daies of Noah when men knew nothing And we are commanded to watch and to be ever prepared because we know not the houre The childish curiosity of sundry in their computation of a set year wherein the day of judgement shall be rather deserves our caution then confutation 3. The third thing to be opened in this coming of the Judg is his attendance in these words ten thousands of his Saints The words in the original are 〈◊〉

mistaken who account Spiritual showres their greatest plague and complain of these dewes of Grace as if they were a deluge of woe to whom the word of the Lord is the greatest burthen who cry out the Land cannot bear it A Church without a Preacher is as a Ship sayling in a dark night on a rough Sea without a Pilot. Never was Christ more moved in compassion toward the people then when he saw them scattered as sheep without a Shepherd They who would be rid of the Word would also be without pardon peace holinesse happinesse it being the Word of Faith the Word which sanctifies the Gospel of Peace the Word of life the Power of God to salvation Ministers are Saviours Watch-m●n Labourers in the Harvest Nurses Guides Builders Sowers Seers Light Salt Clouds c. VVhat then a●e places destitute of saving instruction but unsafe spoiled starved waste blind wandering unsavoury barren and yet how commonly do many curse the preaching of the word as the people who live under the torrid Zone do the rising of the Sun To conclude what apparent enemies are they to the souls of people who hinder the preaching of the Gospel who will not suffer it to run and be glorifi●d who revile and abuse the faithful Dispensers thereof an act no doubt of greater unthankfulness then to wrong and abuse a man who in a time of Famine should open his Garners for the relief of a whole Country 2 The greatest commendation of a Minister Observ 2 is industry for and usefulness to the souls of others Clouds are not appointed for themselves but to water the earth and in doing so they consume themselves like Silk-worms Ministers wear and weave out their own boweis 'T is a sin for any much more for a Minister to be an unprofitable servant He must not go to Sea in his M●nisterial Calling for Pleasure but Employment He must say with Pompey who being to sayl over the Seas with Corn to relieve distressed Rome and being told by the Pilot that it would prove a dangerous Voyage answered 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is not necessary we should live but that we should sayl The Excellency of the Sun is not so much in respect of its glory and splendor as its influences and beneficialness and he who expects hereafter to shine like the Sun must here run like the Sun They who preach the Sun of Righteousness must be like the Sun who cometh forth of his chamber like a Bridegroom and rejoiceth to run his race The clods of the earth may be of a more dull and sad temper rest and lye still but the clouds of Heaven must be in a perpetual motion Ministers must like the Cherubims which give attendance in the presence of God have wings for expedition in the execution of his will They are called Labourers and workmen they labour in the Word and Doctrine Pauls glory was not that he was more advanced but that he laboured more abundantly then they all As much as in me is saith he I am ready to preach the Gospel He made Preaching his business therein he was glad to spend and to be spent 2 Cor. 12.15 Knowledg without industry speaks no man Excellent None is accounted good for the good he hath but the good he doth A wooden key that opens the door is a better one then a Golden one that cannot do it Greatest industry is alway to be used about the salvation of souls Impudent importunity is in no case so commendable as in this Paul was an excellent Orator and all his Oratory was to perswade men to be saved Never did Malefactor so plead to obtain his own life as did Paul beg of men to accept of life He was an importunate woer of souls and he would take no denyal Ministers must rather be worn with using then rusting The sweat of a Minister as it is reported of Alexanders casts a sweet smell his Talents are not for the Napkin but Occupation not to be laid up but to be laid out They who are full Clouds should be free in pouring out returning as they have received How unworthily do they deal with God who are all for taking in and nothing for laying out How liitle is the age and place wherein they live beholding to them How just is it with God that they who will not give him the interest of their abilities by improving and acting them should lose the principal by ceasing to have and retain them 1 Cor. 12.7 The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every one to profit withal Standing water soon putrifies Musical Instruments which are most used sound most melodiously Eccles 5.17 If Solomon observed it to be a great vanity that some men had Riches who had not power to use them how much greater is the vanity of having great intellectual abilities and yet to have no power to make use of them for the good of others In short therefore Ministers must remember that they are not appointed for sight but service and usefulness We account not a Pillar to be good because it is sightly but strong We should fear to sit under that Structure the Pillars whereof are though curiously gilded and painted outwardly yet crazy and rotten within It s better to be under a disgraced persecuted Paul then under a silken Diotrephes who is altogether for worldly glory and preheminence nothing for duty and performance 3 Ministers of the Gospel must be full and watery clouds Observ 3 Able and apt to teach gifted and enabled to their Ministry As Ambassadors they must be sure to have their instructions with them 2 Cor. 3.6 Ephes 4.2 and to be able Ministers of the New Testament for the perfecting of the Saints for the work of the Ministry Able to impart Spiritual gifts Match 13.52 2 Tim. 2.15 bringing forth out of his treasure things new and old being Workmen that need not be shamed rightly dividing the Word of Truth 1. Able they must be to open the Scriptures They must have the water of Knowledg and be able to unlock the Cabinet of the Word fit to feed the people with understanding to role away the stone from the mouth of the well for the watering of the flocks of Christ He who calls for a reasonable Sacrifice will not be content with an unreasonable Sacrificer Ministers must teach every one in all wisdom Col. 1.28 2. They must have ability to convince gainsayers by sound Doctrine Tit. 1.9 A Ministers brest should be a Spiritual Armory furnished with Spiritual Weapons for overcoming of opposers Apollos mightily convinced the Jewes so Paul disputed against the adversaries of the Truth Act. 9.29 and 17.17 3 The Gift of working upon the affections and quickning to duty Ability not only to enlighten the understanding but to warm the heart I think it meet c. 2 Pet. 1.13 saith Peter to stir you up Paul knowing the terror of the Lord perswaded men The Ministers