Jude 1

But God is without any shadow of turning. 5. The angels were subject to change, they were created holy, but mutable (Jude 1:6). The angels which kept not their first estate.

(1.) They know what God would have them avoid; they know they should not swear (Matthew 5:34), Swear not at all: For this sin the Land mourns (Jeremiah 23:10). Yet though they pray, Hallowed be your Name, they profane it by shooting oaths like chain-bullets against Heaven; they…

These three may further confirm it: 1. If we look in general to what the Scripture speaks of men by nature (Ephesians 2:1-3; Romans 3 and 5); they being as it is (Isaiah 57, penultimate verse), as the raging sea that casts out dirt and mire continually — it is always moving and…

Now Abraham is commended for that he savingly and for his justification, believed the power of God in the Gospel promise that God was able of his mercy to give him the son of promise in his old age; otherwise to believe simply the power of God to give a child to a mother who is…

From going to and fro, etc. It may be doubted, how Satan can be said to go to and fro in the earth, and to walk up and down in it, whereas it is express in the Epistle of Jude (Jude 1:6) that the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he has res…

The Spirit and the Bride say, Come, etc. It's essential to all who have the Spirit, to join in this suit; and the Bride cannot but be supposed to love the last appearing of our Lord Jesus, which will perfect all her desires: And this coming of his, was prophesied of by Enoch, th…

It is not the duty only of ministers, but also of private Christians, keeping within the bounds of their station, and the measures of their knowledge, to teach and to instruct one another. The Scriptures are full for this (Colossians 3:6; Colossians 1:5, 11; Hebrews 3:13; Jude 1…

In short: this separation was not culpable, it came not from error of mind; they went out from us, but they were not of us (1 John 2:19). Not from corruption in manners; these are those that separate themselves, sensual, not having the spirit (Jude 1:19). Not from strife and con…

Say the devils (Matthew 8:29): Are you come to torment us before the time? They confess that the Son of God was to judge them to torment; that they had no exception to make against being tormented, but only as to the time; they are reserved in chains to judgment (2 Peter 2:4; Ju…

The angels in heaven had not learned it; they were not contented. Though their estate was very glorious, yet they were still soaring aloft, and aimed at something higher (Jude 1:6). The angels which kept not their first estate — they kept not their estate, because they were not…

"Son of David, why have you come before the time to torment us?" Again, "Go, you cursed, into the eternal fire that is prepared for the devil and his Angels" (Matthew 8:29; Matthew 25:41; Jude 1:9). Again, "If he spared not his own Angels that had sinned, but cast them down into…

First, as God to all creatures, and thus Satan is the workmanship of God as he is a spirit; so whatever partakes of being, is the adequate and consummate effect of omnipotence, I mean being either possible or actual, and so the motions of Angels from place to place, and of Devil…