...This I think is clearly taught by St. Peter, who says, " Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for a new heaven and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." I am aware that these words are by many considered as being figurative. But the literal sense, I conceive,...

...God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets e,ver since the world began, and, therefore, I look for a new heaven and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. I am not rendered unhappy by the words of my Saviour, nor hath any individual of the human race reason...

...which we must comfort one another, and not Jewishly with the hopes of an earthly kingdom. And yet "we look for a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness, according to his promise." But who shall be the inhabitants, and how that heaven and earth shall differ,...

...' the elements shall melt with fervent heat.' ' Nevertheless,' it is your privilege, as Christians, to ' look for a new heaven and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.' The moment in which all things shall be destroyed, is the moment which fixes the seal of permanence...

...BECAUSE it is made part of our prayers, " Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven ;" and, " we look for a new heaven, and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness :" I hope their opinion is not true, who think that the earth shall still grow more and more like to...

...then his truth and justice make the execution necessary afterwards/ '2. When this life is ended, we look for a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness : and the penalties of the sinners of this world may be a means of that righteousness p Ut fulmina...

...which we must comfort one another, and not Jewishly with the hopes of an earthly kingdom. And yet " we look for a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness, according to his promise." But who shall be the inhabitants, and how that heaven and earth shall differ,...

...are brought to favour it. The passages of Scripture mainly relied on, are 2 Pet. 3: 7 —12. Rev. 21: 1. Is. 11: 6 seq. 65: 17 seq. Heb. 12: 26 seq. Hints...creation of the heavens and the earth, here means a HCW, literal, material creation, made out of the old one, and differing from the first only in its...

...respecting these passages, are all which any reader will here expect. The passage in 2 Pet. 3: 7—12, declares that the present heavens and earth are to...dwelleth righteousness; ie the old creation is to bo destroyed, and a new one to come in its place. But what the nature of this is to be, except that...

...also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for a new heaven and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.' Here, then, allusion is made to a special promise contained in some other part of the scriptures, by...