...seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived, &c.—Z Tim. iii. 1—8. 13, 14. But there were false prophets also among the people,...even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring upon themselves...

...whom God has devoted to destruction. With these passages agree the other sacred writers. Says Peter, But there were false prophets also among the people,...even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves...

...speed, is partaker of his evil deeds. The apostle Peter employs language no less decisive and solemn. But there were false prophets also among the people,...even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves...

...and to obev. If the preceding texts were not sufficient, it is contradicted in terms by St. Peter, " There shall be false teachers among you, who shall...bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that BOUGHT THEM, and bring upon themselves swift DESTRUCTION." Also by St. Paul, "DESTROY not him with...

...priestcraft, are the same now as ever they were. " There were then, " says the Apostle Peter, " ftjj^se prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them." (2 Peter ii. 1)....

...lasciviousness, denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ." " But there were," saith St. Peter, "false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not : for if God spared...

...also to what Peter alludes, 2d Epis. i. 16. ' We have not followed cunningly devised fables; ' ii. 1. 'There shall be false teachers among you, who shall privily bring in damnable heresies;' 3. 'And through covetousness shall they, with feigned words, make merchandise of you.' * In this system...

...prophets, as decidedly corroborating and agreeing with his own prediction. But there were false prophets among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you ; who privily shall bring in damnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them, and shall bring upon...

...second chapter he assigns a valid reason for all this care and caution ; ' there were false prophets among the people, even as there shall be false teachers...bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.' The beloved disciple, who survived after...

...himself." "There must be — heresies among you that they which are approved may be made manifest." "There were false prophets also among the people,...even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, EVEN DENYING THE LORD THAT BOUOHT THEM, and bring upon themselves...