| Morning watch - 1830 - 814 pages
...Where is the promise of his coming T for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation " (2 Pet. iii. 4) ; but they will even deny the authenticity of the Scriptures : while others will set up some monstrous and... | |
| 1852 - 1000 pages
...Where is the promise of his coming? for, since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation" (2 Pet. iii. 4). But be not ye moved from your stedfastness, knowing that the Lord is not slack concerning either his promises... | |
| 322 pages
...Where is the promise of his coming? for, since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." 2 Pet. iii. 4. But Peter calls this willing ignorance. " For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of... | |
| Aubrey Charles Price - 1872 - 236 pages
..."Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the Creation" (2 Pet. iii. 4) ; but Christian men and women can trust the " sure word of prophecy," and in patience possess their souls.... | |
| 1873 - 442 pages
...'Where is the promise of Ilia coming 1 For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the Creation' (2 Pet. iii. 4} ; but Christian men and women can trust the ' sure word of prophecy,' and in patience possess their souls.... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - 1877 - 1116 pages
...their own lusts,— and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, ail things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." — 2 PETER iii. 3, 4. THE infidelity spoken of in our text, nad for its basis the stability of nature, or... | |
| John Guthrie - 1878 - 220 pages
...indication of it. To the eye of sense, as to the scoffers yet to come, " all things continued as they were from the beginning of the creation " (2 Pet. iii. 4). But Noah's faith, having God's word to rest on, swept all these mountains of difficulty headlong into the... | |
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