...the long suffering of our Lord is salva" tion ; even as our beloved brother Paul, also, ac" cording to the wisdom given unto him, hath written "unto you;...unstable wrest, as they do also the other scrip"tures, to their own destruction." 2 Epistle in, 15, 16. That Peter here refcred very particularly to Romans...

...PETER iii. 15, 16. Even as our beloved brother Paul, also, according to the wisdom given unto him, bath written unto you, as also in all his epistles, speaking...the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. . 166 — 189 .SERMON XII. Habit. JEREMIAH xiii. 23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard...

...Paul, who wrote " according to the wisdom given unto him," at that time, the apostle Peter discovered " some things hard to be understood, which they that...unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, (not the epistolary writings) unto their own destruction." It would be well if this particular discrimination...

...epistles, speaking in them of these things; in whieh are some things hard to be understood, .whieh they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other seriptures, unto their own destruetion. - 17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before,...

...the causes of obscurity in his writings. 2 PETER iii. 15, 16. Even as our beloved brother Paul, also, according to the wisdom given unto him, hath written...also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction 135 — 153 SERMON XII. Habit. JEREMIAH xiii. 23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or " the leopard...

...God. Account that the long-suffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written...the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. Is not my word like as afire ? saith the Lord ; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces...

...things ; in which are some things hard to be understood (from the spiritual nature of the subjects,) which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest,...Scriptures, unto their' own destruction."— 2 Pet. i«. 15, 16, authority of St. Paul, or by any special deference on the part of the other Apostles to...

...things in it that are hard to be understood; as the apostle Peter expresses it, in 2 Pet. iii. 16. which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest,...the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. But to this it may be replied ; that it must be allowed that some things contained in scripture, are...

...are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they S56 do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction." 2 Pet. iii. 15, 16. In order that the reader may for himself see the truth of the above assertion, I will transcribe, or...

...in particular : 2 Pet. iii. 16 — " as also in all his epistles. . .which they that are unlearned wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction." Plainly denoting, that * St. Paul's epistles are scriptures in the highest sense of the word. II. Bible...