| Thomas Sherlock - Sermons, English - 1812 - 478 pages
...trouble others with any account of them. DISCOURSE I. 2 PETER i. 19. • IVe have alfo a more fore word of prophecy ; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that Jhineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-Jlar arife in your hearts. , 1 HERE being... | |
| Thomas Sherlock (bp. of London.) - 1812 - 464 pages
...as a light to be attended to only until a better comes : hear his words ; We have alfo a more fure word of prophecy ; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that Jhineth in a dark place, UNTIL the day dawn, and the day-Jtar arife in your hearts. This light you... | |
| Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 512 pages
...supposes, that the apostles and believers in those days had not this light ; for they say, * We have a more sure word of prophecy, whereunto ye do well that ye take heed.' This being so, we envy not the Quakers their light, which the apostles and these Christians... | |
| Presbyterianism - 1813 - 580 pages
...of man ; but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. IV. < 2 Pet. i. 19. We have also a more sure word of prophecy, whereunto ye do...the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. Ver. 21. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man ; but holy men of God spake as they... | |
| Missions - 1847 - 760 pages
...the Star of revelation, we shall not see Christ. Hence, says the apostle, "We have a more sure word prophecy, whereunto ye do well, that ye take heed...dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts." And the evangelist Luke says, " Through the tender mercy of our God, whereby the day-spring from on high... | |
| John Murray - Sermons, American - 1813 - 438 pages
...splendid day star of which the Apostle Peter speaks, in his second General Epistle, i. 19, "We have also a more sure word of prophecy ; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts." How unclouded... | |
| William Eusebius Andrews - 1816 - 516 pages
...the more firm prophetical word, whereunto you do well to attend, as to a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the daystar arise in your hearts ;"....'' for,' he concludes, (and observe the reason,] "' prophecy came not by the will o man, but... | |
| Assembly of divines larger catech - 1813 - 158 pages
...gold, yea, than much fine gold : sweeter also than honey, and the honeycomh. that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the seripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 pages
...and urged in the Scriptures, " we have also a more sure word of prophecy, whereunto ye do dwell that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark...the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts." Some questions were asked, and replied to by the lecturer. A reply to the lecture was announced to... | |
| William Smith - Anglican Communion - 1814 - 330 pages
...be brought low, and cease to exist.* This is the " sure word of jH-ophecy, whercunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark...the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. For prophecy came not in old time by the will of man; but holy men of God spake as they were moved... | |
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