| John Owen - 1812 - 584 pages
...long-suffering of our Lord is salvation, even as our beloved brother Paul also, according unto the wisdom given him, hath written unto you; as also in all his Epistles,...unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction.'" To clear this testimony, some few tilings must be observed in it, and... | |
| John Owen - Bible - 1812 - 578 pages
...long-suffering of our Lord is salvation, even as our beloved brother Paul also, according unto the wisdom given him. hath written unto you ; as also in all his Epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which arc some tilings hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - Religious education - 1812 - 362 pages
...are, as St. Peter says, when speaking of St. Paul's Epistles, " Some things hard to be un~ derstood, which they that are unlearned and unstable, wrest as they do also other Scripture to their own destruction *. But so far from furnishing a reason for keeping back the... | |
| Presbyterianism - 1813 - 580 pages
...the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life. b 2 Pet. iii. 16. As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these...unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction Mat. xxii. 24. to Verse .11 Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1813 - 698 pages
...this question in the affirmative f St. Peter himstlf, speaking of the Epistles of St. Paul, said, " In which are some things hard to be understood, which...unstable wrest as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction." Would St. Peter, if he had lived in the present age, have thought this... | |
| Wills - 1813 - 266 pages
...In those epistles, as another great apostle observed, immediately after they were written; " there are some things hard to be understood, which they...unstable, wrest, as they do also the other scriptures unto their own destruction." * And in these days it is too evident, that certain tenets, which have... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, English - 1813 - 468 pages
...consideration, taken from what follows our text, ver. 15. 16. "Even as our beloved brother Paul also speaks of these things, in which are some things hard to...which they that are unlearned and unstable, wrest unto their own destruction." What are these things hard to be understood? Many interpreters, ancient... | |
| Edward Dorr Griffin - Congregational churches - 1813 - 416 pages
...them that are lost ; in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not" " In which are some things hard to be understood, which...that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction. Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things... | |
| Thomas Cogan - Christianity - 1813 - 606 pages
...Gentiles to live as do the Jews ?"* Peter acknowledges, that in the epistles of his colleague Paul, are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable, wrest, as they do other Scriptures, unto their own destruction. The difficulty must be ascribed to his abstruse mode... | |
| Missions - 1849 - 748 pages
...Peter, referring to the writings of bis colleague, St. Paul, affirms, that they contain " some thing* hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also tlte other Scriptures, unto their men deitruction." But what of that? Did St. Peter, perceiving this... | |
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