7 ſuch Men crept in unawares to them, yet it was not without the ” Providence of God fo ordering it. 4 Or, Zudgment, and it may be 5 underſtood, either of a reprobate ſenſe, to which they who thus ; perverted the Goſpel, were given up by God, according to his Pre-ordination ; or of that Damnation he decreed ſhould follow upon their Wickedneſs, in making Shipwrack of the Faith them- ſelves, and ſubverting others. This feems beſt to agree with'2 Pet.
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2. 3- 7 Abuſing the Doftrine of the Grate of God, ind Benefits of Chriſt revealed in the Goſpel, eſpecially the Do&rine of Chri.- itian Liberty, to the encouraging themſelyes and others in ti:e vileſt Luſts, 2 Pet. 2. 1. t Either this may be underſtood- of the Fer diſtin&ly from Chriſt, exprefied in the following clauſe ; and 5n!; 1s put in not to exclude either of the other Perſons of the Trinits from being God, but to exclude Idols and falſe Gods: Or, it may be underſtood of Chriſt, as well as the words follo-vinz ; not only becauſe there is but one Article in the Greeb relating to the whole Sentence, but becauſe it ſeems beſt to agree with the maalle! race, 2 Pet. 2. 1. which is moſt generally underſtood of Cirilt - and he cauſe the Herefies of thoſe times, which ade cautions thoſe Saints
againſt, ſtruck «ſpecially at the Godhead of Chriit, v hich he there-
fore the more exprelly aſſerts.
5 | will therefore pur you in remembrance, thous! ye once knew this, how that the Lord having ftvel the people x out of the land of Egypr, afterward * de- * Num. 1 4: [troyed y them that believed not 3.
#4 This may be joyned either with the Verb following, 2 knew, *- 4 according to our Trantlation, and the Senſe is, though ye knew this certainly, as the word once is taken, Pſal. 89. 35. or perfettly 2nd throughly,.or once tor all : Or rather, with what goes before, and the words may be read, I ll .yet once (viz. while I am in this Ta- bernacle) put you in remembrance of this, though you hnow it ;, as 2 Pt. I. 12. x The People of Jrael. y Viz. In the Wilderneſs by Plague. fiery Serpents, gc. 7x He ſets forth the 17atlites Unbelief, as the original of all their Difobedichce, and Rebellions, and the great Cauſe of their Deſtru@tion. See Heb. 3. 17, 18, 19. and 4.2.
s And * the Angels which kepr not their || firſt *job.2.c1. eſtate a, but left his own habitation b, he hat! re- | Or. 7 ſerved in everlaſting chains c under darkneſs unto the 2%" judgment of the great day. |
a In which they were created, their original Excellency, Truth,
Holinets, Purity, Zohn 8. 44% as welt as Dignity. b Viz. An heaven- ly one, from whence, though they were righteoutly thruſt out by God, 2 Pet. 2. 4. yet they may be truly ſaid to have left it them- ſelyes, in that they voluntarily Rebelled againſt the Law of their Creation, and committed that Sin which they knew would certainly be puniſhed with ſuch a DejeQion. c Into which, Peter favs, they were delivered. | : ;
7 Even as * Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities « ger. ; about them d in like manner e giving themſelves over 24. © to fornication, and going after + ſtrange fleſh /, are ter Deut. 29. forth as an example, fuffering the vengeance of cter- FP nal fire g. 2
d Admah and Zeboim, Jer. 49. 18. Hoſ. 11.8; & As Sodim and © Gomorrah did, likeneſs of Sin inferring likenefs of Puniſhment. f Margin, other Fleſh, he means Male-fleſh, which is other than what God appointed for that uſe they made of it; or, as we render it, ſtrange Fleſh, i. e. that which is ſtrange, improper, and unfit for ſuch an end. It is the Deſcription of the unnatural Filthineſs of the Sodomites, Gen. 19. 5. See Rom. I. 26, 27, g Eternal Fire may be joyned either, I. with Example, and the words thus placed, are ſet forth for an Example of eternal Fire, /uffering Vengeance, and the meaning is, That the Vengeance they ſuffered, 1n being deſtroyed by Fire, is an Example, or Type of eternal Fire, that of Hell : Or,
29. 27.
) 2. with Vengeance, according to our Reading, aud then the ſenſe is,
They are ſet forth for an Example (viz. to thoſe that after ſhould live ungodly, 1 Pet. 2.6.) ſuffering the Vengeance of eternal Fire : | The Vengeance they ſuffer, is an Example to deter others from { the like Wickedneſs. This Fire is called eternal, either becauſe of | the ſtill continuing Effects of it, of rather, becauſe it was a Type or Repreſentation of the Fire of Hell, and to thoſe milerable $59- mites the very beginning of it, they being brought by thefe tempo- ; ral Flames into everlaſting Burnings. | | - Ml $ * Likewiſe alfo þ thefe falthy dreamers 7 defil> the *Excd.-7 bs fleſh k, deſpiſe dominion /, and ſpeak evil ofdignities ||. 25: 1 h Notwithſtanding ſo many Judgments of God upon others, which ſhould have kept them from the like Sins. 7 Either this may be taken properly, and joyned to the next Clauſe, defile the Fleſh, and then it may note the Impurity of thefe Wretches, whodreamed of what they loved, and afted over that Filthineſs in their Sleep, to which they were ſo much addifed when awake : Or metaphorical-
ly, and ſo they are called Dreamers, a5 having the Senſe of their
Minds overcome, and laid afleep by their ſenſual Pleaſures; or be- #4 ing like men in a Dream, deluded by their abſurd, thougi pleafing Imaginations. & This notes all thoſe laſcivious Pra&tices, to which,
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they defile themſelves and others ; the Luſt of Uncleanneſs, as it 13 in Peter. Þ In their Minds; Judzments, Defires, they rejeft, mike void, and abrogate Civil-goverament, as a thins not fit to be, Not only Governours; but Government it felt. "| Either ſyiritua?
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9 * Yer Michael the Archangel zz, when contend- i:z 7 with the devil, he diſputed abour the body of Moſes o, durit nor p bring againſt him a railing accu- {1rion q, bur ſaid, The Lord rebuke thee 7.