...himself be the very instrument which Providence has selected for fulfilling this its immutable decree, " that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, (viz. of their carnal understandings,) and saying, where is the promise of his coming? for since the...

...the same image, from glory to glory, as by the Spirit of the Lord.'' Dransfield. MODERN INFIDELITY. There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts. — 2 Peter iii. 3. I. THE CHARACTER OF INFIDELITY REQUIRES OUR SERIOUS ATTENTION. This state of mind...

...their antagonists, and perpetuate all the principles and interests of his kingdom. The apostle says, " There shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts," and immediately adds, "They are ignorant," nay, "willingly ignorant." This is true in respect to those...

...hearers to the practical lesson to be drawn from a knowledge of " the terrors of the Lord." v. iii. " Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts." He exhorts them in the first place to beware of those ungodly men, who, in order to stifle the fears...

...before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour : 3 knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue...

...despised. The apostle Saint Peter, in his second epistle to the Christian church, solemnly predicted, that " there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts ;" a prediction which in our time we have too often seen verified and fulfilled. As the insinuations...

...unwary, are depicted in the clearest colours by the pencil of prophecy: Knowing this first (says Peter), that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts.* In the same epistle he more fully describes the persons he alludes to ; as chiejly them which walk...

...unwary, are depicted in the clearest colours by the pencil of prophecy : Knowing this first (says Peter), that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts.* In the same epistle he more fully describes the persons he alludes to ; as chiefly them which walk...

...unwary, are depicted in the clearest colours by the pencil of prophecy : Knowing this first (says Peter), that there shall come in the last days scoffers walking after their own lusts* In the same epistle he more fully describes the persons he alludes to ; a* chiefly them which walk...

...spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us, the apostles of the Lord and Saviour : knowing this first, that there shall come, in the last days, scoffers, walking after their own lusU : " And. say ing, where is the promise of his coming ? For since the fathers fell asleep, all...