Author: John Brown

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9781230371030

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...hold on the hope set before you in the Gospel." Listen to the call of mercy, believe the testimony of God, embrace the promise of salvation, "receive the reconciliation," and then, under the influence of " the Holy Ghost shed forth abundantly, " through Jesus Christ the Saviour, on all who believe," "give diligence to make your calling and election sure" (for then ye are among "the called, and chosen, and faithful")--by "giving all diligence to add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness, and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness charity." Your fruit will thus be "unto righteousness, and the end will be everlasting life." "Consider what has been said, and the Lord give you understanding in all things," and make you, indeed, "wise unto salvation." PART II.--THE APOSTLE'S RESOLUTIONS, AND THE GROUNDS OF THEM. 2 Peter i. 12-21.--Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up, by putting you in remembrance; knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. Moreover, I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance. For we have not followed cunningly-devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of His majesty. For He received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to Him from the...