 | 1817 - 334 pages
...the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, (as some men count slackness) but is...long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." Here St. Peter disposes of the interval between death... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...the Lord as a thousand years', and a thousand years as or* day. 3. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness ; but is...long-suffering to us-ward, not willing" that any should perish', but that all should come to repentance. 4. The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - 1820 - 514 pages
...tire, may melt down thine impenitence, and thy hardness of heart: "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, (as some men count slackness) but is...long-suffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." 2(%. The goodness of God, and his tender concern for... | |
 | Francis Atterbury (bp. of Rochester.) - 1820 - 358 pages
...wait with patience and humility for their accomplishment. The Lord, saith he, is not slack concerning his promise [as some men count slackness] ; but is...long-suffering to US-ward, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance, ver. 9Where he intimates the true reason of Christ's... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 568 pages
...delayed a thousand years, will be true to the utmost, at last. 9. " The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness ; but is...long-suffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.'' As repentance is the gift of God, and HE bestows... | |
 | Henry Kollock - 1822 - 510 pages
...denunciations against the objections of the profane, he declares, " The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness, but is longsuffering to us-ward ; not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." (2 Pet. iii. 9.) When our blessed Saviour would lead... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...(Ephes. ii. 3. See above.) (Gal. iii. 10. See above.) 2 Pet. iii. 9. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any skould perish, but that all should come to repentance. Mark i. 15. And saying, The time is fulfilled,... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1822 - 398 pages
...as some men count slackness ; but is long-suffering to us-vvard, pot willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night ; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the... | |
 | Hervey Wilbur - 1823 - 146 pages
...in the misery and destruction of the wicked, in itself considered? The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness ; but is...long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1823 - 494 pages
...as some men count slackness ; but is long suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the... | |
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The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness : but is long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 
