...wisdom given him, hath written unto you; as also in all his Epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which...the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction.'" To clear this testimony, some few tilings must be observed in it, and concerning it. As 1st, That St...

...unto you ; as also in all his Epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which arc some tilings hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned...the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction." To clear this testimony, some few things must be observed in it, and concerning it. As 1st, That St...

...are, as St. Peter says, when speaking of St. Paul's Epistles, " Some things hard to be un~ derstood, which they that are unlearned and unstable, wrest as they do also other Scripture to their own destruction *. But so far from furnishing a reason for keeping back the...

...Have we not inspired authority for answering this question in the affirmative f St. Peter himstlf, speaking of the Epistles of St. Paul, said, " In which...scriptures, unto their own destruction." Would St. Peter, if he had lived in the present age, have thought this admonition less necessary, than in the age of...

...promising him life. b 2 Pet. iii. 16. As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things ; in which are some things hard to be understood, which...also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction Mat. xxii. 24. to Verse .11 Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother...

...In those epistles, as another great apostle observed, immediately after they were written; " there are some things hard to be understood, which they...the other scriptures unto their own destruction." * And in these days it is too evident, that certain tenets, which have been imputed, and falsely imputed...

...darken counsel ; for they wrested the counsel of God ; 2 Pet. iii. 16. In Paul's epistles, saith he, "are some things hard to be understood, which they...unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, to their own destruction." Some things in the Scriptures are hard to be known, and they are made harder...

...wisdom 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...are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also, Hie other scriptures, unto their own destruction." We will not now affirm, that the subjects, which...

...them that are lost ; in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not" " In which are some things hard to be understood, which...that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction. Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things...

...Gentiles to live as do the Jews ?"* Peter acknowledges, that in the epistles of his colleague Paul, are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable, wrest, as they do other Scriptures, unto their own destruction. The difficulty must be ascribed to his abstruse mode...