Redemption draweth nigh Author:John Cumming Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: REDEMPTION DRAWETII NIGH. LECTURE I. WHERE IS THE PROMISE OF HIS COMING ? The nearer the day of the Lord the more frequent and bitter the opposition of ... more »the scoffer. It is a pity it should be so. The prospect, however, is glorious—its certainty is beyond dispute—its advent approaches every day. " Tliis second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you± in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance: that ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: knowing this first, that there shall come in the last day scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming ? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."—2 Peter iii. 1—4. I Have been lately turning my mind with some intensity to the leading thoughts embodied in the chapter of which I have given the opening prefatory verses. I intend to call attention—first of all to the words here prefixed, afterwards to these words, ." For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished;" and next in contrast to this, " But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men ;" and then to the words, " But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." After these the inspired apostle adds more comforting words: " The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackn...« less