...XVII. To the Rev. J. JENKINS, at the new Vicarage, Lewes, Sussex. TO MY OWN SON IN THE FAITH. BELOVED, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir up thy pure mind by way of remembrance, that after my decease these things may remain with thee. Meditate...

...present truth : yet I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to encourage by reminding you ; knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ declared to me : so I will endeavour to enable you, after my departure, to make mention of the same...

...choosing the 2nd Epistle of St. Peter, 1st chapter, 10th to 17th verses, in which occur the words, ' I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle,...my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me." She had then resigned herself wholly to await the approach of death. One month of suffering...

...sense, may I feel as a pastor, the solemn import of the valedictory language of the apostles, — ' I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance.' — ' And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build...

...things, though ye know them, and are established Í3 in the present truth ; Yea, I think it right, so long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by reminding you: 14 Knowing that shortly I must put off my tabernacle, even 15 as our Lord Jesus Christ...

...of the testimony of another apostle— St Peter— where he says— -" Knowing that I must shortly put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me,"* that there is .substituted for the last words---" declared to me:" meaning-, it would...

...of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." (2 Cor. v. 1.) So the apostle Peter, " Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me." (2 Peter i. 14.) Such an anticipation of mortality is as necessary for youth as for age, for no one...

...world passeth away." I am the more diligent, says the apostle Peter, " knowing that I must shortly " put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus " Christ hath shewed me." And has he not shewed you the same, if not by immediate revelation, yet by the language of Scripture,...

...always in remembranee of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. 13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernaele^ to stir you up, by putting you in remembranee ; 14 Knowing that shortly I must put off...

...before our eyes: and he says it when he was in expectation of leaving this world in a very short time: " Knowing* that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me-,'* 2 Pet. i. 14. St. Luke likewise avers in the beginning of his gospel, that he had perfect understanding...