 | 1807 - 672 pages
...therefore, is to persuade themselves that it is a falsehood. The apostle Peter tells us, that there should come in the last days scoffers, walking after their...own lusts, and saying, " Where is the promise of his coming ?" This prediction has been exactly fulfilled, and has received a remarkable accomplishment... | |
 | 1802 - 596 pages
...endless duration. The effect of these things upon the ungodly, was foretold by Peter : " There shall come in the last days, scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promisé of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, nil things continue as they were from the... | |
 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...JBut this very unbelief fulfils the Scriptures. St. Peter says, • In the last days there shall be scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the... | |
 | 310 pages
...and weak Christians are discouraged in their hope. Thus is fulfilled that prophecy — " There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and uaving, Where is the promise of his coming ': for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue... | |
 | Elias Boudinot - 1801 - 366 pages
...the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Saviour — knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days, scoffers walking after their...own lusts, and saying, where is the promise of his coming." As to the consolation that is to be afforded to the doubting inquirer, it can never arise... | |
 | 1828
...passages from the third chapter of the second epistle of St. Peter: " Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their...own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? " — P. 103. Is this, then, the great event to which the creation is supposed to look forward,... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1805 - 566 pages
...regard those "scoffers," who, according to the prediction of the apostle, are " come in these last days, walking after their " own lusts, and saying, where is the promise of " his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all " things continue as they were from the beginning "... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1805 - 398 pages
...preparation for an event so infinitely momentous. " There will come in the last days scoffers, \valk" ing after their own lusts, and saying Where is the " promise of his coming ; for since the fathers fell " asleep all things continue as they were from the " beginning... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 304 pages
...folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was."* " Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their...own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming ; for, since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 596 pages
...folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs atso was."* " Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their...own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming ; for, since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of... | |
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Saviour; knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the... 
