 | John Leland - 1769 - 554 pages
...thefe Scoffers St. Peter gives a full Anfwer in the 5th, and following Verfes. He firft obferves, that this they are 'willingly ignorant of, that by the Word of God the Heavens were of eld, and the Earth jlanding out of the Water, Verfe 5. If they did but confider that the Heavens and... | |
 | 1807 - 672 pages
...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... | |
 | 310 pages
...enemies under his feet. ' What saith the Scripture ?' ' 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 foil asleep, all things continue as from the beginning of the creation.'... | |
 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...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... | |
 | Elias Boudinot - 1801 - 366 pages
...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... | |
 | 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 - 596 pages
...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...from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 516 pages
...fulfilment, of 2 Pet. Hi. 3, 4. " 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 - 304 pages
...truth ;\\ resisters of the truth ; men of corrupt minds ; reprobate concerning the faith ;^[ scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming ? willingly ignorant of the tremendous catastrophe of the deluge ;** * One of the grand doctrines... | |
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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 creation. 
