 | Richard Watson - 1820 - 498 pages
...philosophy and vain deceit, they fall into perdition, temporal and eternal. SERMON II. 2 Pet. i. 16. WE HAVE NOT FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES, WHEN...POWER AND COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS cHRIST, BUT WERE EYE-WITNESSES OF HIS MAJESTY. WHETHER the Christian religion be a revelation of the will of God, or... | |
 | 1827 - 304 pages
...angels," Heb. ii. 9. Can God become lower than his creatures ? LIX. Because Peter declares, that "Christ received from God the Father, honor and glory, when there came such a Toice to him from the excellent glory, this is my beloved Son," &c. 2 Peter i. 17. LX. Because it is_represented... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1821 - 472 pages
...appears by what one of them, viz. the apostle Peter, says concerning it, 2 Pet. i. 16, 17, 18, " For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when...his majesty. For he received from God the Father, honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved... | |
 | James Clarke Franks - 1821 - 570 pages
...testimony given by the Father at his baptism. " We have not," says the Apostle, "followed cunningly-devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 568 pages
...Second Epistle, to which we have already had occasion to refer, is much to be remarked : — " For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when...power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty." t That is, evidently, of that majesty in which the Lord Jesus will appear... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 546 pages
...other Gospel unto yon than that ye have received, let him bo accursed. SECTION IX. 2 Pet. i. 16. For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power aud coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty. Luke i. 3. It seemed good... | |
 | David Jennings - 1823 - 654 pages
...prophecy, in the following remarkable passage of his second epistle, which I will recite at large : " For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when...power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - 1823 - 342 pages
...tell you there verily is a reward for the righteous, and a God that judgeth in the earth ; and that we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when...made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, ^.nd we appeal for the truth of what we thus affirm, to the testimony of the most authentic... | |
 | John Henry Hobart (bp. of New York.) - 1824 - 526 pages
...transfiguration, and thus proves that this latter sublime event was designed to denote the former. " For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when...power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came... | |
 | 1824 - 462 pages
...endeavour that ye may be able, after my decease, to have these things always in remembrance. 16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when...power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came... | |
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For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him... 
