to practice charity in endeavouring to convert their neighbour, where
they will meet with three sorts of persons: 1st, With persons obstinate
in their errors and sins; these may be said to be already judged and
condemned; they are to be sharply reprehended, reproved, and if possible
convinced of their error. 2d, As to others you must endeavour to save
them, by pulling them, as it were, out of the fire, from the ruin they
stand in great danger of. 3d, You must have mercy on others in fear,
when you see them through ignorance of frailty, in danger of being drawn
into the snares of these heretics; with these you must deal more gently
and mildly, with a charitable compassion, hating always, and teaching
others to hate the carnal garment which is spotted, their sensual and
corrupt manners, that defile both the soul and body.

1:24. Now to him who is able to preserve you without sin and to present
you spotless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, in the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

1:25. To the only God our Saviour through Jesus Christ our Lord, be
glory and magnificence, empire and power, before all ages, and now, and
for all ages of ages. Amen.

Now to him, etc... St. Jude concludes his epistle with this doxology of
praising God, and praying to the only God our Saviour, which may either
signify God the Father, or God as equally agreeing to all the three
persons, who are equally the cause of Christ's incarnation, and man's
salvation, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who, being God from eternity,
took upon him our human nature, that he might become our Redeemer.

THE APOCALYPSE OF ST. JOHN THE APOSTLE

In the first, second, and third chapters of this Book are contained
instructions and admonitions which St. John was commanded to write to
the seven bishops of the churches in Asia. And in the following
chapters, to the end, are contained prophecies of things that are to
come to pass in the Church of Christ, particularly towards the end of
the world, in the time of Antichrist. It was written in Greek, in the
island of Patmos, where St. John was in banishment by order of the cruel
emperor Domitian, about sixty-four years after our Lord's Ascension.

Apocalypse Chapter 1

St. John is ordered to write to the seven churches in Asia. The manner
of Christ's appearing to him.

1:1. The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to make
known to his servants the things which must shortly