Matthew Poole and continuators on Jude 1:21

21 Keep your selves in the love of God , looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

i. [illegible: 1 letter]. In Love to God, or that Love whereby ye love God; this implies love to each other, as the cause doth the effect.

Viz. By Hope; and so in these two Verses we have the three Cardinal Graces, Faith, Hope and Charity.

The merciful or gracious sentence of Christ the Judg, whereby he puts Believers in possession of Eternal Life, Matth. 25.34. This reward of Eternal Life is promised, but being promised freely, and out of Mercy, it is called Mercy, 2 Tim. 1.18. the effect being put for the cause.