Christ's Warning to the Churches to Beware of False Prophets, Who Come As ...
Christ's Warning to the Churches to Beware of False Prophets, Who Come As ...
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Speaking of the«e heretics, he says, < They made it their custom, in their festivals, aoriUnu ludersy to play with lots.* How 4hese lota were applied, Peter may be supposed to intimate, when he saya^ their porting was to deceive ^nd beguile^ that they might better exercite their awetout practices. It is probable that these deceivers, pre- tending, that a lot drawn in a particular: manner was a divine de- cision, took upon them thus to direct men^s conduct, and to pre- dict their destiny. . -Hence it appears that the impious practice, lately known among as, of discovering men^s spiritnal state by « htteryi is not so novel as some have imagined. Something simi- lar to it seems to have been in use among those religious game- sters who vexed the cbnrch in, and soou after the apostles* time* Bnt the use of passages of sacred writ ip a way of lottery, ia m^ Digitized by VjOOQ IC V^HKilTG TO CBVRen^g. 8t Paul gives the same account of them ia his second letter to Timothy. He aays^ ' Perilous tioiea shall com^^for men shall be lovers of their own selves* covetous/ teachf ing things which they ought not, for filthy lucre^s «»ake ; ^ proud^ and boastera of their own superior sanctity; ^evil speakers and disobedient to parents^ under pretence of being more godly than they ; ' unthankful^ unholy, without natural affection, covenant breakers/ or disregarding the covenant obli- gations which they are under to the church of God : ' false accusers, incontinent,^ or mvLch given to lust ; ^ fierce' and maUgnant in their tempers ; ' heady and high-minded :^ and yet assuming a ^ibrm of godUnesa!' ^Qf this sort are they who creep into bquses, to lead the simple captive.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Speaking of the«e heretics, he says, < They made it their custom, in their festivals, aoriUnu ludersy to play with lots.* How 4hese lota were applied, Peter may be supposed to intimate, when he saya^ their porting was to deceive ^nd beguile^ that they might better exercite their awetout practices. It is probable that these deceivers, pre- tending, that a lot drawn in a particular: manner was a divine de- cision, took upon them thus to direct men^s conduct, and to pre- dict their destiny. . -Hence it appears that the impious practice, lately known among as, of discovering men^s spiritnal state by « htteryi is not so novel as some have imagined. Something simi- lar to it seems to have been in use among those religious game- sters who vexed the cbnrch in, and soou after the apostles* time* Bnt the use of passages of sacred writ ip a way of lottery, ia m^ Digitized by VjOOQ IC V^HKilTG TO CBVRen^g. 8t Paul gives the same account of them ia his second letter to Timothy. He aays^ ' Perilous tioiea shall com^^for men shall be lovers of their own selves* covetous/ teachf ing things which they ought not, for filthy lucre^s «»ake ; ^ proud^ and boastera of their own superior sanctity; ^evil speakers and disobedient to parents^ under pretence of being more godly than they ; ' unthankful^ unholy, without natural affection, covenant breakers/ or disregarding the covenant obli- gations which they are under to the church of God : ' false accusers, incontinent,^ or mvLch given to lust ; ^ fierce' and maUgnant in their tempers ; ' heady and high-minded :^ and yet assuming a ^ibrm of godUnesa!' ^Qf this sort are they who creep into bquses, to lead the simple captive.
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