...shall be lovers of their ownselves." This is selfishness, which, he proceeds to say, shall make men "covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient...parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady,...

...and know the truth." 1 Tim. iv. 1 — 3. Again, " This know also, that in the last days perilous time shall come, for men shall be lovers of their own selves,...are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; — having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof."...

...blasphemers, disor bedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of...lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof; they are never able to come to the knowledge of the truth, they resist the truth,;...

...and know the truth." 1 Tim. iv. 1 — 3. Again, " This know also, that in the last days perilous time shall come, for men shall be lovers of their own selves,...natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incontirient, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures...

...after the course of this world, "lovers of their ownselves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, — traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more...of God"—" having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof." f And, as this state of things continued to increase in progressive enormity, until...

...disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural aflection, truce-breakers, false-accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,...pleasure more than lovers of God, having a form of religion but denying the power." We might make an historical comment on almost every particular in...

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...him at his will. m CHAP. III. J. HIS know also, that"3 in the last dayi ]>erilous times shall come. 2 For ° men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous,...blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without nalural affection, trucebreakers, t] false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those...

...adherence to the mere semblance of piety may be learnt from the statements which introduce the text. Men .shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters,...high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. How terrible a picture; and how calculated to inspire us with a dread of mere formality in religion!...

...words of the text, as the sum and substance of it. " This know also," saith the Apostle to Timothy, " that in the last " days perilous times shall come....are good, traitors, " heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures " more than lovers of God ; having a form " of godliness, but denying the power " thereof...