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8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jefus Chrift.

9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot fee afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old fins.

10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election fure: for, if ye do these things, ye fhall never fall:

II For fo an entrance fhall be miniftered unto you abundantly, into the everlafting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift.

12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth..

13 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to ftir you up, by putting you in remembrance; 14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jefus Chrift hath fhewed

me.

15 Moreover I will endeavour, that ye may be able after my decease to have these

things always in remembrance.

16 For we have not follow ed cunningly devised fables, when we made known. unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jefus Chrift, but were eye-witneffes of his majefty.

17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the ex

cellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

18 And this voice, which came from heaven, we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.

19 We have also a more fure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-ftar arise in your hearts:

20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the fcripture is of any private interpretation.

21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man; but holy men of God fpake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

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godly;

7 And delivered juft Lot, vexed with the filthy converfation of the wicked:

8 (For that righteous man, dwelling among them, in feeing, and hearing, vexed his righteous foul from day

UT there were falfe prophets also among the people, even as there shall be falfe teachers among you, who privily fhall bring in damnable herefies, even denying the Lord that bought to day with their unlawful them, and bring upon them- deeds;) felves fwift deftruction.

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9 The Lord knoweth how 2 And many fhall follow to deliver the godly out of their pernicious ways; by temptations, and to reserve reason of whom the way of the unjuft unto the daytruth fhall be evil spoken of. of judgement to be pu3 And through covetouf- nifhed: nefs fhall they with feigned 10 But chiefly them that words make merchandize of walk after the flesh, in the you; whofe judgement now luft of uncleanness, and defof a long time lingereth not, pife government. Prefumpand their damnation flumber-tuous are they, felf - willed, eth not. they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

4 For if God fpared not the angels that finned, but caft them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be referved unto judgement;

5 And fpared not the old world, but faved Noah, the eighth perfon, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into afhes, condemned them with an overthrow, making them an enfample unto thofe that after fhould live un

II Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accufation against them before the Lord.

12 But these as natural brute beafts, made to be taken and deftroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not, and fhall utterly perish in their own corruption;

13 And fhall receive the. reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day-time. Spots they are, and blemishes, fport

ing themselves with their own | escaped the pollutions of the deceivings, while they feast with you;

14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from fin; beguiling unstable souls; an heart they have, exercised with covetous practices; curfed children :

15 Which have forfaken the right way, and are gone aftray, following the way of Balaam the fon of Bofor, who loved the wages of unrighteoufnefs;

16 But was rebuked for his iniquity. The dumb afs fpeaking with man's voice, forbad the madness of the prophet.

17 Thefe are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempeft; to - whom the mift of darkness is referved for ever.

18 For when they speak great fwelling words of vanity, they allure through the lufts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worfe with them than the beginning.

21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

22 But it is happened unto them, according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the fow that was wafhed to her wallowing in the mire.

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HIS fecond epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were fpoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apof

19 While they promife them liberty, they themselves tles of the Lord and Saviare the fervants of corrup-our: tion: for of whom a man is overcome, of the fame is he brought in bondage. 20 For if after they have their own lusts,

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3 Knowing this first, that there fhall come in the laft days fcoffers, walking after

4 And

4 And faying, Where is | works that are therein shall be burned up.

the promise of his coming? for fince the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth ftanding out of the water, and in the water:

6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the fame word are kept in ftore referved unto fire against the day of judgement, and perdition of ungodly men.

8 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.

II Seeing then that all these things fhall be diffolved, what manner of perfons ought ye to be in all holy converfation and godliness,

12 Looking for and hafting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be diffolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righ– teousness.

14 Wherefore, beloved, feeing that ye look for fuch things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without fpot, and blameless.

15 And account that the long-fuffering of our Lord is falvation; even as our beloved brother Paul alfo, according to the wisdom given unto him, hath written unto

9 The Lord is not flack concerning his promife, as fome men count flacknefs; but is long-fuffering to us-you: ward, not willing that any fhould perish, but that all fhould come to repentance.

10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens fhall pass away with a great noife, and the elements fhall melt with fervent heat, the earth alfo and the

16 As alfo in all his epiftles speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood; which they that are unlearned and unstable wreft, as they do alfo the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

17 Ye therefore, beloved, feeing ye know these things

before,

before, beware left ye alfo, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own ftedfaftness.

18 But grow in grace,

and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

From the First Epiftle General of JOHN.

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HAT which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled of the word of life;

2 (For the life was manifefted, and we have seen it, and bear witnefs, and fhew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifefted unto us ;)

3 That which we have feen and heard declare we unto you, that ye alfo may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jefus Chrift.

4 And these things write we unto you, that our joy may be full.

6 If we fay that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jefus Chrift his fon cleanfeth us from all fin.

8 If we fay that we have no fin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

9 If we confefs our fins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our fins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteoufnefs.

10 If we fay that we have not finned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in

us,

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fage which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light and in him is no darkness at all.

CHAP. III.

Ehold, what manner of love the Father hath beftowed upon us, that we fhould be called the fons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it

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