II. PETER, I.

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strengthen, settle you. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. By Silvanus, a faith­ful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.

Aug. 21, Dec. 18.

The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, salut­eth you; and so doth Marcus my son. Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

THE SECOND EPISTLE GENERAL OF

PETER.

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April 22, August 21, Dec. 18. NIMON Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righte­ousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the know­ledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the cor­ruption that is in the world through lust. And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith vir­tue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to pa­tience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to bro­therly kindness charity. 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 Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your call­ing and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: for so an entrance shall be minis­tered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 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. Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this' ta­bernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in