...righteousness shall shine forth as the sun, for ever and ever." SERMON XX. -2 PETER, CHAP. III. VERSE 3. Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts. A. VERY little acquaintance with human nature will inform us, that there are few men who can patiently...

...said to afford a singular accomplishment of Scripture prophecy, in the prediction, 2 Peter, iii. 3 : " That there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts. ' And when 1 call to mind the speeches I have heard on the Lisbon job, and the many returns to the embraces...

..."Knowing this first, that there shall tome in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lasts, and saying, where is the promise of his coming? for...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...

...attention : — " That ye be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and...days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saving, Where is the promise of his coming ? for, lince the fathers fell asleep, all things continue...

...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...

...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...

...days perilous times shall come : for men shall be lovers of their ownselves, &c. — 2Tim.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 GOD, WHEN OUR...

...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...