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Two Discourses On Prophecy: With an Appendix in Which Mr. [W.] Miller's Scheme, Concerning Our Lord's Second Advent Is Considered and Refuted
Two Discourses On Prophecy With an Appendix in Which Mr Miller's Scheme Concerning Our Lord's Second Advent Is Considered and Refuted - W. Author:Samuel Farmar Jarvis, William Miller General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1843 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: SERMON I. 2 Peter, i. 19, 20, 21. " We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts : Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man : but holy men of God spake a they were moved by the Holy Ghost." Thk second Epistle of St. Peter was probably written at Rome after the death of St. Paul, and certainly a very short time before his own. This he expressly declares in the 14th verse of this chapter, in assigning the motives for his writing. It was written therefore in the latter part of the reign of Nero, and not more than four years before the destruction of Jerusalem. It was addressed to the same Christian communities to whom he had sent his first Epistle; namely, to the Jewish Christians scattered in the Provinces of Asia Minor, lying along the Euxine or Black Sea. The object of it was, to give them, and through them, all the members of God's Church till the end of time, his dying charge to make their calling and election sure, and to prepare, by the practice of all the Christian gifts and graces, for the second coming of their Lord. Some have supposed, from the time in which the Apostle wrote, that when he spake of " the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ," he meant to indicate merely the approaching termination of the Jewish Commonwealth. But though he may have had that event in view as the beginning of those judgments which are to overtake all the enemies ...« less