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2 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.

3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the 'common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

4. For there are certain men crept in unawares, i who were before of old ordained1 to this condemnation,2 ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lascivousness, and 1deny

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e See on ROM. i. 7.

f TIT. i. 4 To Titus, mine own son after the common faith.

8 GAL. ii. 5: To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the Gospel might continue with you. PHI. i. 27: That ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the Gospel. 1 TIM. i. 18: This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare. do. vi. 12: Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life. 2 TIM. i. 13: Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. do. iv. 7: I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.

h GAL. ii. 4: Because of false brethren unawares brought in. 2 PET. ii. 1: There were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you.

i See on ROM. ix. 21, 22.

*TIT. ii. 11: For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men. HER. xii. 15: Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled. 2 PET. ii. 10, 19: Them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness.-While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption.

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11 JOHN, ii. 22: Who is a liar but he that denieth Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son. See on 1 TIM. v. 8.

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5 I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, " how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward "destroyed them that believed

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6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath P reserved in everlasting chains under darkness "unto the judgment of the great day.

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7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

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8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities."

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JOHN, viii. 44: [The devil] abode not in the truth.

P See on LUKE, viii. 31.

9 REV. xx. 10: The devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone.

GEN. xix. 24: Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven. See on LUKE, xvii. 29.

s See on 2 PET. ii. 10, 11.

'DAN. X. 13, 21: The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me ; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.-There is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince. do. xii. 1: At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people. REV. xii. 7: There was war in heaven : Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels.

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tending with the devil he disputed about the "body of Moses,, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

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10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.

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11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the "gainsaying of Core.

12 These are a spots in your feasts of charity,9 when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear clouds they are without water,

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8 rebellion. Br. 9 love. Dod. We. Pu.

" DEUT. xxxiv. 6: And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor : but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.

▾ ZEC. iii. 2: The LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee. 2 PET. ii. 11: Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.

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w2 PET. ii. 12: These, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not.

* GEN.iv. 5: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. See on 1 JOHN, iii. 12.

Y NUMB. xxii. 7, 21: And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak. And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. 2 PET. ii. 15: Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness.

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b See on 1 Cor. xi. 21.

€ PRO. xxv. 14: Whoso boasteth like clouds and wind without rain.

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13 Raging waves of the sea, i foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for

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14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints,

wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

d EPH. iv. 14: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive.

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JOHN, xv. 4-6: Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

HEB. vi. 4-6: For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

8 MAT. XV. 13: Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.

h ISA. Ivii. 20: The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

iPHI. iii. 19: Whose glory is in their shame.

* REV. viii. 10, 11: And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon a third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; and the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. 12 PET. ii. 17: The words under ver. 12.

m GEN. v. 18: Jared-begat Enoch.

" DEUT. xxxiii. 2: And he said, The LORD came from Sinai,

15 To execute judgment upon all, and to convince 10 all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

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16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words," having men's 'persons in admiration because of advantage.

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17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ ;

18 How that they told you there should be * mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

10 to convict. We. 11 extravagant things. Dod.

and rose up from Seir unto them : he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them. See on Acts, i. 11.

1 SAM. ii. 3: Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. Ps. xxxi. 18: Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous. do. Ixxiii. 8, 9: They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression they speak loftily. They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. do. xciv. 4: How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? MAL. iii. 13: Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? P See on 1 Cor. x. 10.

92 PET. ii. 18: They speak great swelling words of vanity. See on JAMES, ii. 1, 9.

$ 2 PET. iii. 2: That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour.

* ACTs, xx. 29: I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. 2 TIM. iv. 3: For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears. 2 PET. ii. 1: But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall

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