...sufficient to determine the enquiry about it. His words to this purpose, Epist. 2. Chap. iii. 15,1C. are; " And account that the 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...

...sometimes wrote and preached upon these high points to which St. Peter alludes in his second Epistle. "Even as our beloved brother Paul also, according...given unto him, hath written unto you. As also in his Epistles, speaking in them of these things: in which are some things hard to be understood, which...

...according to the wisdom given him, + 16 hath written to you : As also in all his epistles, speaking therein of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction. 17...

...The history and character of Paul ; and the causes of obscurity in his writings. 2 PETER iii. 15, 16. Even as our beloved brother Paul, also, according to the wisdom given unto him, bath written unto you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are...

...shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in whieh are some things hard to be understood, .whieh they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as...

...accordingly done ; and Mr. How preached from 2 Peter, iii. 16. As one that in all his epistles speaks of these things ; in which are some things hard to be understood, &c. Mr. Goodwin, who heard the sermon, was far from being satisfied with it, as appears by the ludicrous...

...St. Peter's supremacy, is not warranted by any thing that St. Peter says of himself, or of the * " And account that the long-suffering of our Lord is...things ; in which are some things hard to be understood (from the spiritual nature of the subjects,) which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they...

...arises solely from the antiquity of our own translation. The passage correctly translated runs thus : " Even as our beloved Brother Paul, also, according...Epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which things," (sv oic, not svai;, scilicet ra-iroxauj), viz. in the coming of the day of the Lord, in the...

...acknowledges this to be the case. Hear what he says on this subject. " And account that the long suffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother...according to the wisdom given unto him, hath written unto yon ; as also in all his epistles, speaking iu them of these things ; in which are some things hard...

...goodness of God Icadeth thee to repentance," Rom. ii. 4. " And account that the longsuffering of the Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul...the wisdom given unto him, hath written unto you," 2 Pet. iii. 15. So that, even these vessels of wrath, upon whom God will fmally shew his wrath, and...