 | Benjamin Whichcote - 1751 - 460 pages
...judgment is not the proper work of a day of grace. Laftly, God does not reckon time as we do ; for one day is with the Lord as a thoufand years, and a thoufand years as one day, 2 Pet. ^ii. 8. Thefe things I do but interpofe as cominirrn my way. That, for which I have heaped up... | |
 | John Tillotson - Sermons, English - 1757 - 488 pages
...eternal duration ; it being no matter when a duration begins, which is never to have an end ; ver. 8. "Be not ignorant of ** this one thing, that one day...thoufand years, and a thoufand years as one " day." This, it feems, was a common faying among the Jews, to fignify, that to the eternity of GOD, no finite... | |
 | John Conybeare - Sermons, English - 1757 - 554 pages
...future. SER SERMON XII. Reafons why GOD delays the Punifliments of Wicked Men. 2 PET. 3. 8, p. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, That One Day is ivith the Lord as a Thou~ fand Tears, and a Thoufand Tears as One Day. The Lord is not Jlack concerning... | |
 | Richard Clarke - Seven (The number) - 1759 - 60 pages
...underftood, it has a peculiar Force in this Place 3 as the Apoftle feems to intend by doubling \t. " One Day is with the Lord as a thoufand Years, " and a thoufand Years as one Day." There appears a great Propriety in this Paflage to the Jews there addrefled, who acknowledged this... | |
 | John Glas - Sandemanianism - 1761 - 528 pages
...Whereas Peter, when fpeaking of that " day of judgment, and perdition of ungodly men," fays, " But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one "DAY is with the Lord as a thoufand years, and a thou" fand years as ONE DAY*." JC I would fain know what the ProfeflTor will fay of the New Jerufalem... | |
 | Thomas Newton (bp. of Bristol.) - Bible - 1766 - 518 pages
...thoufand will be the great fabbatifm or holy reft to the people of God ; one day (2 Pet. III. 8.) being with the Lord as a thoufand years, and a thoufand years as one day. According to (8) tradition too thefe thoufand years of the reign of Chrift and the faints are the great... | |
 | Richard Watson - Apologetics - 1776 - 316 pages
...taunt of thofe who did then, or fhould in future afk, Where is the promife of his coming? he fays, Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thoufand years as one day: the Lord is notjlack concerning his promife,... | |
 | Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...kept in ftore referved unto fireagainft the day of judgement, and perdition of ungodly men. 8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one...a thoufand years, and a thoufand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not flack concerning his promife, as fome men count flacknefs ; hut is long-fiiffering... | |
 | Richard Watson - Sermons, English - 1788 - 500 pages
...thofe who did then, or fhould in future afk, Where is the promife of his coming? he fays, fieloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the fjord as a thoufand years, * and and a thoufand years as one day : 'The Lord is not flack concerning... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1789 - 364 pages
...the whole fcene in an inllam, and unravel every eircumftance, let it be ever fo intricate, feeing one day is, with the Lord, as a thoufand years, and a thoufand years as one day. IT is time now to attend unto the text, in which, according to the prophetic ftile, the Apoftle fpeaks... | |
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But beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 
