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<P><FONT SIZE=+3>Jude</FONT>
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<BR>Completed by J<FONT SIZE=-1>OHN</FONT> B<FONT SIZE=-1>ILLINGSLEY</FONT>.</P>
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<P><B>AN</B></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+2>EXPOSITION,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+1>W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E R V A T I O N S,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=-1>OF THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+3><B>J U D E.</B></FONT>
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T<FONT SIZE=-1>HIS</FONT>
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epistle is styled (as are some few others) <I>general</I> or
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<I>Catholic,</I> because it is not immediately directed to any
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particular person, family, or church, but to the whole society of
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Christians of that time, lately converted to the faith of Christ,
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whether from Judaism or paganism: and it is, and will be, of standing,
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lasting, and special use in and to the church as long as Christianity,
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that is, as time, shall last. The general scope of it is much the same
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with that of the
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=2Pe+2:1-22">second chapter
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of the second epistle of Peter</A>,
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which having been already explained, the less will need to be said on
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this. It is designed to warn us against seducers and their seduction,
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to inspire us with a warm love to, and a hearty concern for, truth
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(evident and important truth), and that in the closest conjunction with
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holiness, of which charity, or sincere unbiased brotherly-love, is a
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most essential character and inseparable branch. The truth we are to
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hold fast, and endeavour that others may be acquainted with and not
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depart from, has two special characters:--It is <I>the truth as it is in
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Jesus</I>
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eph+4:21">Eph. iv. 21</A>;
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and it is <I>truth after</I> (or <I>which is according to)
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godliness,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Tit+1:1">Tit. i. 1</A>.
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The gospel is the gospel of Christ. He has revealed it to us, and he is
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the main subject of it; and therefore we are indispensably bound to
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learn thence all we can of his person, natures, and offices:
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indifference as to this is inexcusable in any who call themselves
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<I>Christians;</I> and we know from what fountain we are wholly and
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solely to draw all necessary saving knowledge. Further, it is also a
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doctrine of godliness. Whatever doctrines favour the corrupt lusts of
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men cannot be of God, let the pleas and pretensions for them be what
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they will. Errors dangerous to the souls of men soon sprang up in the
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church. <I>The servants slept and tares were sown.</I> But such were
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the wisdom and kindness of Providence that they began sensibly to
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appear and show themselves, while some, at least, of the apostles were
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yet alive to confute them, and warn others against them. We are apt to
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think, If we had lived in their times, we should have been abundantly
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fenced against the attempts and artifices of seducers; but we have
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their testimony and their cautions, which is sufficient; and, if we
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will not believe their writings, neither should we have believed or
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regarded their sayings, if we had lived among them and conversed
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