_This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you._ ST. PETER’S LOVE TOKEN I. The nature of it--a letter written. What shall we render to the Lord for His mercy in writing these blessed covenants? II. The number of it--a second after the former. “This second”; not so much fearing the miscarriag... [ Continue Reading ]
_There shall come in the last days scoffers._ THE CHARACTER OF THE LAST DAYS I. The personal qualifications of the disputers here described. To be a scoffer is sure no very laudable character, being the joint result of pride and malice, the doing mischief, and the doing it in sport. But as this te... [ Continue Reading ]
_This they willingly are ignorant of._ WILLING IGNORANCE Nelson, at St. Vincent, putting the telescope to his blind eye, and swearing that he could not see the signal to cease firing, affords an apt illustration of ninny who, for less worthy motives, will not, because they wish not, see the truth.... [ Continue Reading ]
_The day of the Lord will come as a thief._ THE DAY OF THE LORD I. The text first points us to a period advancing rapidly upon us, in the future; and as such differs from any other which may have marked an epoch in the succession of ages since the world began. 1. The bright display of the Lord’s... [ Continue Reading ]
_Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved._ IMMORTALITY AND SCIENCE It is a singular fact that these words have far more probability of truth than they had a generation ago. Then, the stability of the physical universe was held to be a settled fact of science; it is not so regarded now.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Look for new heavens and a new earth._ NEW HEAVENS AND NEW EARTH A question here arises whether the new heavens and new earth will be created out of the-ruins of the old. The idea of the annihilation of so many immense and glorious bodies, organised with inimitable skill, is gloomy and forbidding... [ Continue Reading ]