...probably replied, in language like that of the fcoffers mentioned by St. Peter, Where is the promlfe of his coming ? For all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. The love of profit, or of pleafure, blinded their underftandings and feared their conferences ; they were...

...momentous truth ; and, therefore, we are led to act upon the infidel principle and doctrine, " Where is the promise of His coming? for all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." May grace be given us, to ask, from the heart, the more consistent...

...affect to consider as an idle dream, and say, as they are represented as saying by the Apostle, " where is the promise of "his coming? for all things continue as "they were, from the beginning of the " creation." In order still farther to weaken the power of such restraints, they...

...fear, that he should surely one day perish in like manner. So an ungodly world is prone to say, " Where is the promise of his coming, for all things continue as they were since the foundation of the world." So the believer may often be tempted to think, while suffering...

...to open yet wider and wider the lips of that philosophic scepticism, which scornfully asks, "Where is the promise of his coming, for all things continue as they were since the fathers fell asleep?" Has not this fearful abuse of spiritual blessings thrown back to an...

...in the days of Lot and Noah 1 According to prophecy it will. " There will be scoffers, saying, where is the promise of his coming, for all things continue as they were from the beginning." It is evident, from this passage, that the subject is to be agitated in the last days,...

...the last days, just immediately preceding Christ's second advent ; that they will be saying, " Where is the promise of his coming; for all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." l How could they so say if a spiritual millennium had intervened previously...

...treated it with ridicule, and pronounced him a visionary; others procrastinated; others said, " Where is the promise of his coming ? for all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." Not one solitary penitent came to the ark for safety. For a hundred...

...have passed, and three watches of the night be gone ; hope is never disposed to sneer out — " where is the promise of His coming, for all things continue as they were?" — but still longs and waits, and is ready at a moment's warning, with her filled, and trimmed, and...

...arise out of and follow each other, that the majority of those who are living will be saying, " Where is the promise of His coming, for all things continue as they were ? " But to us who are waiting for Him He will appear for our joy, and we shall be delivered. It is...