 | Hugh Blair - 1790 - 470 pages
...embarrafs him ; nor any unforefeenobftacle retard the performance of his moft diflant promife. One day is with the Lord as a thoufand years ; and a thoufand years are as one day. There is no viciffitude of the human ftate in which good men cannot take fanctuary... | |
 | Richard Watson (bp. of Llandaff.) - 1791 - 266 pages
...thofe who did then, or fhould in future afk, Where is the promife of his coming ? he fays, Behi-edf be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thouJand years, and a thoufand years as one Jay : "The Lord is not Jlack concerning bis protnife,... | |
 | James Williamson - Atonement - 1793 - 264 pages
...days, fcoff'ers, faying, Where is the promife of his coming? (2 Pet. iii. 3, 4.) To this he anfwers, Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one...a thoufand years, and a thoufand years as one day. The Lord is not Jlack concerning his promife, as feme men count Jlacknefs. (iii. 8, 9.) We may therefore... | |
 | James Williamson - Atonement - 1793 - 268 pages
...days, /coffers, faying, Where is the promife of his coming? (2 Pet. iii. 3, 4.) To this he anfwers, Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one...-with the Lord as a thoufand years, and a thoufand jears as one day. The Lord is not Jlack concerning his promife, as feme men count Jlacknefs. (iii.... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Sermons, English - 1798 - 492 pages
...paffions to precipitate action, fo to him there are no lenfible differences of time, one day being -witb the Lord as a thoufand years, and a thoufand years as one day. 8. Again, God (as is the property of every wife agent) is wont to act varioufly, according to the ftate... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 304 pages
...as a small sum. This difficulty is solved by the connection of our text with the following verses: 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. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise,... | |
 | Henry Kett - Bible - 1801 - 442 pages
...are kept in Jtore, referred unto fre again/I the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thouj "and years, and a thoi/fand years as one day. The Lord is not Jlack concerning his promife,... | |
 | Joseph Galloway - Bible - 1802 - 512 pages
...understanding of the fubjecl: of \vhichhewastreating: "For," fays he,, "beloved, " be not ignorant of one thing, that one day is with " the Lord as a thoufand years, and a thoufand " years as one day ;" evidently meaning, that with God, and according to his appointment and decree, rcfpecling the diftribution... | |
 | Joseph Benson - Methodism - 1802 - 382 pages
...coming ? for ever lince the Fathers fell afleep,. all things continue as they were:" we reply,. " One day is with the Lord as a thoufand years,. and a thoufand years as one day." No time is long or fhort with him who is Eternal: He can. do the work of a thoufand years in one day,... | |
 | Johann David Michaelis - Bible - 1801 - 586 pages
...event, with which they had little or no concern. Fourthly, what St. Peter fays ch. iii. 8. ' that one day is with the Lord as a thoufand years, and a thoufand years as one day," is not very applicable to an event, which was to take place within fix or feven years after St. Peter... | |
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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. 
