...power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty — he adds — we have also a more sure word of prophecy ; whereunto ye do...the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. By which he could not mean that the prophecies were surer evidence to himself, that Christ had appeared,...

...settled among them, if they might. THE TWELVE VISIONS OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR, DANIEL, AND ST. JOHN. . Wehave also a more sure word of prophecy ; whereunto ye do...the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts : knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy...

...the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them ; and that from a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures,...salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus," 2 Tim. iii, 14, 15. IF any subject in the entire range of morality and religion is entitled to the highest...

...Prophecy " (literally, " and we have more confirmed the prophetic word"), " whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark...the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts," I am desirous to shew unto the church, that the Prophecy is indeed light, and is not darkness ; a light...

...to put this matter still farther beyond all doubt, is it not written in the Second Epistle of Peter, i. 19 : " We have also a more sure word of prophecy...day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts." Turn with me also to the First Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, ii. 9 : " But, as it is written,...

...word is a lamp unto njy feet, and a light unto my path ;" and to that of the Apostle Petei , " We have also a more sure word of prophecy ; whereunto ye do...day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts," 2 Pel:, i. 19. By keeping this light in his eye, and praying for mercy, the sincere EvangtlUt directs...

...testify of Christ, to give us hope, life, wisdom and salvation. Concerning them, Peter says, " We have also a more sure word of " prophecy, whereunto ye...until the day " dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts."(i) Paul says, " From a child thou hast known the holy scriptures " £of the Old Testament]...

...primitive church, to whom Peter says, " We have also a more sure word of prophecy, to which ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark...the day dawn and the Day-STAR arise in your hearts" (2 Pet. i. 19). The Star is necessarily during the night, and therefore this title belongs to the present...

...excellent glory," " unto which [prophetic word ; so he styles the holy Scriptures] ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark...day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts," 2 Pet. i. 19. Let all, therefore, who desire that day to dawn upon their hearts, wait for it in " searching...

...God ? And in 2 Pet. i. 19. ' But we also have a more sure word of prophecy, to which ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shines in a dark...the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts : for the prophecy came not in the old time by the will of man ; but holy men of God spoke as they...