...delivered me. 12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 14 But continue thou w we things which thou hast learned, and hast been assured of, knowing«» whom...

...which is his law, that hath condemned him. And this is gathered from that saying of St. Paul, " But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived)." First, they are evil men; malice and peevishness is in their wills ; then they turn heretics, and k...

...erred from the faith, and some have studied the Scriptures with no other view than to pervert them. Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived : there have been many unruly and vain talkers in every age, whose mouth must be stopped from subverting...

...have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me." 2d Timothy, ch. iii. v. 13, 14, 15. "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived; but continue thou in the things them hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast...

...first had a being. We propose to show from fheir example how true is that saying of inspired wisdom, " Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived." The doctrine that in the revolutions of the eternity to come, a period will arrive when sin and suffering...

...(Acts xix. 19h.) and Timothy was residing at Ephesus, when St. Paul forewarned him, as in the text, that evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being1 deceived. These seducers, or 7«fTf<, were evidently men who dealt in magic : and though the...

...godliness, but denying the power thereof." Thus, it was foretold, things would continue to go on. " But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived." Ministers, or bishops, as they were usually called, and the people likewise, would become more and...

...communion. The apostle Paul, in a few words, sketched its character, in prophetic terms, when he said—" Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived." THE NOVATIANISTS. You will doubtless recollect that in a former Lecture, appropriated to the history...

...that will live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution. Mark, shall, if they live godly. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived ; therefore he exhorts Timothy, to ' watch in all things, and endure afflictions,' &c. for he was ready...

...punishments. The history of infidelity from this time is a striking comment upon the words of St. Paul, " But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived ;" for, in the progress of this deadly error, all Lord Herberfs five articles of Natural Religion have...