and names those who shall suffer judgment. Whence we
infer what our young clerical gentlemen shall expect at the last day,
be the time long or short.

_And for all the hard speeches which Godless sinners have uttered
against Him._ There he at once strikes upon their life and preaching,
and would say this much:--They speak fiercely and harshly against the
Lord who is to come; they are shameless and proud; they deride and
revile him, as St. Peter has said. He speaks not of their sinful,
shameful life, but of their godless state. But the godless is he who
lives without faith, although he leads a passable life outwardly.
Outwardly wicked works are indeed the fruits of unbelief, but we
speak more particularly of that as a godless state, where the heart
is full of unbelief. These very godless ones the Lord will punish, he
says, because their preaching is shameless and presumptuous, for they
stick ever to their own wilfulness; do not permit themselves to be
swayed at all, and are as hard as an anvil, to condemn and revile
continually. Thus has Enoch struck in this passage at the very estate
which before the last day should be in the world, as we now see it
before our eyes. Jude says, further:

V. 16. _There are murmurers and complainers who walk after their own
lusts, and their mouth speaketh swelling words._ When men will not
let their own circumstances be fair and favorable, then there is
nothing but murmuring and complaining. So when one does not give a
Bishop the title he claims, then they cry out against disobedience.
Besides, they are such a class of people as we cannot guard against,
for they give out that they have a right over soul and body; they
have grasped in their own hands both the civil and spiritual sword,
so that they cannot be controlled, since no one must preach against
them; they have got rid of all tax, tribute, and rent, so that no one
dares to touch their wealth, besides, none dares preach a word
without first asking them about it. And even though one should attack
them with Scripture, yet they say that none but they only must be
suffered to explain Scripture. Thus they live in all respects as they
will, according to their lusts. For they cannot explain that to us,
as they would be glad to, since we have subjected ourselves both to
the Gospel and to the civil sword, but they would be free and
uncontrolled of both. And, moreover, their whole law and claim is
nothing but the fullness of mere high, p