| William Malkin - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...have everlasting life. SERMON II. ON THE EXTERNAL EVIDENCE THAT CHRISTIANITY IS THAT REVELATION. " For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power, and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; but were eye-witnesses of his Majesty." — 2 PETKB. i. 16. HAVING... | |
| John William Fletcher - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 618
...supreme, and eternal,] and of Jesus our Lord ;' a weak, peccable, and mortal man ! For (verse 16,)—' We have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of [this mere man] our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty, ' (;uFya\«o7ii7os,)... | |
| Elijah Bailey - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...passages found in 2d Epistle of Peter, 1st chapter, and verses -It! and 17, where Peter saith, " For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of hi? majesty. For he received from God the... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...Peter also was not afraid to avow his religious sentiments, because he knew they were true. He says, " We have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of .our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his glory." The great and essential doctrines... | |
| 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 442
...The following passages will more fully develope the Evangelist's meaning: — 2 Peter i. 16-18, " For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power anil coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty. For he received from God... | |
| John Owen - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...matter of it, that it was a cunningly devised fable. So the apostle Peter tells us, 2 Epist. i. 16. ' We have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power of Christ.' The world charged it so, and thought that gave it its efficacv. Secondly, There was another... | |
| John Platts - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 688
...his witnesses unto the people. 1 PET. v. 1 : A witness of the sufferings of Christ. 2 PET. i. 16: For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty. MSA. xliv. 3 : I will pour... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 638
...friends in the next. VOL. IX. 2 M SERMON VI. INTERNAL MARKS OF CREDIBILITY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. for we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty. 2 Pet. i. 16. WE are laying... | |
| 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able, after my decease to have these things in remembrance. For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, hut were eve-witnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the... | |
| Samuel Burder - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 502
...human nature. St. Paul gloried in the cross : it was this that raised him up. And St. Peter says, ' We have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the coming and power of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty,' &c. No, faith apprehends... | |
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