| William BISHOP (Rector of Ufton Nervet.) - 1825 - 364 páginas
...regard this as an instance of God's forbearance : " The Lord," he remarks, " is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness ; but is...long-suffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance11:" he spares the sinner for a while, that he may turn... | |
| Robert Barclay - 1825 - 584 páginas
...That Proof 2. he willeth not the perishing of any, 2 Pet. iii. 9. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness, but is long-suffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. And this is correspondent to that of the prophet Ezekiel,... | |
| William Carpenter - 1825 - 698 páginas
...thy son : make me as one of thy hired servants, Luke xv. 17 — 19. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness ', but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willingthatany should perish, butthat all should come to repentance, 2 Pet. iii. 9. And account tAat... | |
| Robert Morrison - 1826 - 596 páginas
...brother, suffer not Satan to whisper into thine ear such an insinuation. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness, but is long-suffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Know ye not that a thousand years are with the Lord... | |
| John Owen - 1826 - 524 páginas
...The Lord is not slack,' says he, 'concerning his promise (the promise, viz. of a future judgment), as some men count slackness, but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance ;' 2 Pet. iii. 8, 9. Nay, the threatening of punishment... | |
| Thomas Mortimer - 1826 - 356 páginas
...that the true cause of that delay is mercy, and not weakness. The Lord is not slack concerning B 4 his promise, as some men count slackness, but is long-suffering to us-ward ; not willing (hat any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Still, however, there are seasons in... | |
| Jacques Saurin - 1827 - 666 páginas
...objections of libertines, such motives to piety as the apostle intended we should draw from them. ' Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one...and the works that are therein shall be burnt up.' This is the doctrine that the apostle establishes. ' Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved,... | |
| John Platts - 1827 - 676 páginas
...that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. 2 PET. iii. 9: The LOKD Is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness ; but is...long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. "MARK, ii. 18 : And the disciples of John and of the... | |
| 1827 - 516 páginas
...and a new ear^h*, wherein dwelleth righteousness." Also he says, "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." And St. Paul saith in the tenth chapter of the Hebrews,... | |
| John Richards - 1827 - 466 páginas
...and apply it. It is that they may turn and repent, and be saved. " The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness ; but is...long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance :" l and then follow the words of the text, from which... | |
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