 | Thomas Sherlock (bp. of London.) - 1812 - 464 pages
....prophecy is compared and preferred. At the fixteenth verfe the Apoftle fays, We have not followed cunningly devifed fables, when 'we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jefus Chrift. And after thus difclaiming all art and deceit in fetting forth the promifes and expeftations... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock - Sermons, English - 1812 - 478 pages
...under confideration : the Apoftle's reafoning to the faithful believers is this, We have not followed cunningly devifed fables, -when we made known unto you the POWER and COMING of our Lord Jefus Chrift, but were eye-witnejfes of his MAJESTY. For he received from God the Father HONOUR and GLORY,... | |
 | William Bengo Collyer - Bible - 1813 - 448 pages
...me also, as of one born out of due time. 2 PETER i, 16. For tee have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty. THERE is a certain degree of sublimity in which... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 598 pages
...behalf of himself and the rest of the apostles, when he says, We have not followed cunningly devised fables, -when we made known unto •you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but -were eye-witnesses of his Majesty, 2 Pet. i. 1 8. and, indeed, their writings discover... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 616 pages
...VR INTERNAL MARKS OF CREDIBILITY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. For tt'tf have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his Majesty. 2 Peter, i. 16. are laying before you the arguments... | |
 | Samuel Eyles Pierce - 1815 - 644 pages
...eye-witnesses of his majesty ; for we saw his person in glory : for we have not followed cunningly de•vised fables, when we made known unto you, the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty. For he received from God, the Father, honour and... | |
 | Charles Buck - Bible - 1815 - 430 pages
...moderation and peace»Weness towards all. April 12. i. 16. For we have not followed cunningly devised when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye witnesses of his majesty. Dr. YOUNG died 1765, in his 84th year. Dr. Cotton,... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 600 pages
...himself and the rest of the apostles, when he says, We have not followed cunningly devised fables, tuhen we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord yesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his Majesty, 2 Pet. i. 1 8. and, indeed, their writings discover... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 778 pages
...and •uiitneft.] An ocular evidence ; One who gives teltimony to fafts fe*n with -his own eyes. — We made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jefus Cbrift, and were ejtivitneffm of bis Majefty. t Pit. To meet him all his faints, who filent flood Eyewitnc/Jc-s... | |
 | Joseph Benson - Christian literature, American - 1817 - 630 pages
...St. Peter speaks, 2d Epistle i. 16 — 18, where he says, " We have not followed cunningly devised fables when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and... | |
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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. 
