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Sobriety, Watchfulness, and Charity; Improvement of Talents. (a. d. 66.)
SOBRIETY, WATCHFULNESS, AND CHARITY; IMPROVEMENT OF TALENTS. (A. D. 66.) We have here an awful position or doctrine, and an inference drawn from it. The position is that the end of all things is at hand. The miserable d…
Fortitude and Circumspection; Advice to Suffering Christians. (a. d. 66.)
FORTITUDE AND CIRCUMSPECTION; ADVICE TO SUFFERING CHRISTIANS. (A. D. 66.) The frequent repetition of counsel and comfort to Christians, considered as sufferers, in every chapter of this epistle, shows that the greatest…
Advice to Elders. (a. d. 66.)
ADVICE TO ELDERS. (A. D. 66.) Here we may observe, I. The persons to whom this exhortation is given—to the presbyters, pastors, and spiritual guides of the church, elders by office, rather than by age, ministers of thos…
Humility Recommended. (a. d. 66.)
HUMILITY RECOMMENDED. (A. D. 66.) Having settled and explained the duty of the pastors or spiritual guides of the church, the apostle comes now to instruct the flock, I. How to behave themselves to their ministers and t…
Sobriety and Vigilance Enjoined. (a. d. 66.)
SOBRIETY AND VIGILANCE ENJOINED. (A. D. 66.) Here the apostle does three things:— I. He shows them their danger from an enemy more cruel and restless than even the worst of men, whom he describes, 1. By his characters a…
The Apostle's Prayer. (a. d. 66.)
THE APOSTLE'S PRAYER. (A. D. 66.) We come now to the conclusion of this epistle, which, I. The apostle begins with a most weighty prayer, which he addresses to God as the God of all grace, the author and finisher of eve…
The Felicity of the Church. (a. d. 67.)
THE FELICITY OF THE CHURCH. (A. D. 67.) The apostle Peter, being moved by the Holy Ghost to write once more to those who from among the Jews were turned to faith in Christ, begins this second epistle with an introductio…
Spiritual Diligence; Advancement in Holiness. (a. d. 67.)
SPIRITUAL DILIGENCE; ADVANCEMENT IN HOLINESS. (A. D. 67.) In these words the apostle comes to the chief thing intended in this epistle—to excite and engage them to advance in grace and holiness, they having already obta…
Spiritual Exertions. (a. d. 67.)
SPIRITUAL EXERTIONS. (A. D. 67.) I. The importance and advantage of progress and perseverance in grace and holiness made the apostle to be very diligent in doing the work of a minister of Christ, that he might thereby e…
Evidence of the Gospel. (a. d. 67.)
EVIDENCE OF THE GOSPEL. (A. D. 67.) Here we have the reason of giving the foregoing exhortation, and that with so much diligence and seriousness. These things are not idle tales, or a vain thing, but of undoubted truth…
Inspiration of the Scriptures. (a. d. 67.)
INSPIRATION OF THE SCRIPTURES. (A. D. 67.) In these words the apostle lays down another argument to prove the truth and reality of the gospel, and intimates that this second proof is more strong and convincing than the…
False Prophets and Corrupt Leaders. (a. d. 67.)
FALSE PROPHETS AND CORRUPT LEADERS. (A. D. 67.) I. In the end of the former chapter there is mention made of holy men of God, who lived in the times of the Old Testament, and were used as the amanuenses of the Holy Ghos…
Divine Judgments. (a. d. 67.)
DIVINE JUDGMENTS. (A. D. 67.) Men are apt to think that a reprieve is the forerunner of a pardon, and that if judgment be not speedily executed it is, or will be, certainly reversed. But the apostle tells us that how su…
Divine Judgments. (a. d. 67.)
DIVINE JUDGMENTS. (A. D. 67.) When God sends destruction on the ungodly, he commands deliverance for the righteous; and, if he rain fire and brimstone on the wicked, he will cover the head of the just, and they shall be…
False Teachers. (a. d. 67.)
FALSE TEACHERS. (A. D. 67.) The apostle's design being to warn us of, and arm us against, seducers, he now returns to discourse more particularly of them, and give us an account of their character and conduct, which abu…
Adhere to Words of the Prophets and Commandments of the Apostles. (a. d. 67.)
ADHERE TO WORDS OF THE PROPHETS AND COMMANDMENTS OF THE APOSTLES. (A. D. 67.) That the apostle might the better reach his end in writing this epistle, which is to make them steady and constant in a fiducial and practica…
The Cavils of Infidels; Destruction of the World. (a. d. 67.)
THE CAVILS OF INFIDELS; DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD. (A. D. 67.) To quicken and excite us to a serious minding and firm adhering to what God has revealed to us by the prophets and apostles, we are told that there will be s…
Conception of Eternity. (a. d. 67.)
CONCEPTION OF ETERNITY. (A. D. 67.) The apostle comes in these words to instruct and establish Christians in the truth of the coming of the Lord, where we may clearly discern the tenderness and affection wherewith he sp…
Destruction of the World. (a. d. 67.)
DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD. (A. D. 67.) We are here told that the Lord is not slack—he does not delay beyond the appointed time; as God kept the time that he had appointed for the delivering of Israel out of Egypt, to a d…
Solemn Exhortations. (a. d. 67.)
SOLEMN EXHORTATIONS. (A. D. 67.) The apostle, having instructed them in the doctrine of Christ's second coming, I. Takes occasion thence to exhort them to purity and godliness in their whole conversation: all the truths…
The Apostolic Testimony. (a. d. 80.)
THE APOSTOLIC TESTIMONY. (A. D. 80.) The apostle omits his name and character (as also the author to the Hebrews does) either out of humility, or as being willing that the Christian reader should be swayed by the light…
The Apostolic Testimony. (a. d. 80.)
THE APOSTOLIC TESTIMONY. (A. D. 80.) The apostle, having declared the truth and dignity of the author of the gospel, brings a message or report from him, from which a just conclusion is to be drawn for the consideration…
Confession and Forgiveness. (a. d. 80.)
CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS. (A. D. 80.) Here, I. The apostle, having supposed that even those of this heavenly communion have yet their sin, proceeds here to justify that supposition, and this he does by showing the dre…
Christ the Propitiation. (a. d. 80.)
CHRIST THE PROPITIATION. (A. D. 80.) These verses relate to the concluding subject of the foregoing chapter, in which the apostle proceeds upon the supposition of the real Christian's sin. And here he gives them both di…