...ke was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace ? 2 Pet. iii. 3. Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts. Deut. xxix. 29. The secret things belong unto the Lord oar God: but those things which are revealed...

...schemes of infidel speculation avail ? Alas ! how correct is that comprehensive line of St. Peter,—. " Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts !" (2 Pet. iii. 3.) Alas for intellectual pride ! the world has never discovered " the ^highway of...

...by which the roperaaker twisted his larger ropes. there are, especially, to be in the " last times, scoffers walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming ?" &c. Nor can we well mistake the following verses, when we reflect upon the prodigies of moral...

...spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour : knowing this first, that there shall come in the last...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...

...firmando. — BOMUET. prophets, and of the commandments of the apostles of the Lord and Saviour, because there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking...own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming?' 2 Pet. iii. 4. 52. ' Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen and Amen.' But whatever be at...

...not long warning? Yes ; all of us : so long, that too many wicked men allow themselves in scoffing, 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...

...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 begin" ning...

...esteem* who purest gold, " Compar'd with them, despise." ' • Knowing fhts first, that there ahull come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and taying, Where is the promise of his coming ? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue...

...perilous times shall come : for men shall be lovers of their ownselves, &c. — 2 Tim. iii. 1 — 4. Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last...own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming ? &c.— 2 Pet. iii. 3, &c. CHAP. XLVII. ENCOURAGEMENTS TO HOPE IN, AND CRY TO COD, WHEN OUR...

...shall not come, " except there come a falling away first ;" and ш 2 Pet. ii. 3. St. Peter says, " There " shall come in the last days scoffers, walk"ing...own lusts, and saying, •' where is the promise of hie coming.'* It ц to these apostates so spoken of beforehand that St. Jude here alludes. (rf) " The...