Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1828 Excerpt: ... 1. "The heavens wereof old, and the earth." VerseS. 2. "The heavens and the earth which are now." Verse 7. 3. "New heavens and a new earth." Verse 13. The first "perished, being overflowed with water." The second is "reserved unto fire," and is to be "dissolved." The third is the subject of " promise" and of expectation. The same word, " perish," applied by St. Peter to the first, is used by St. Paul with reference to the second; and, qualified by his own explanation, gives the sense of "dissolved" in the language of St. Peter. "They shall perish, but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old, as doth a garment, and as a vesture (irtpifioXaiov) shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be Changed; but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail." Heb. i. 11, 12. As the perishing of the "old world" was not its utter destruction, but a material alteration in its form, properties, and appearance; so, from analogy, as well as direct inference from the text, the dissolution of the present world may be expected to amount to no more than a very material alteration, or such as may be signified by a change of raiment; which, though it may denude for a time, does not essentially destroy the body, but may increase its comeliness and beauty. Some analogy has ever been recognized between the two great works of God, Creation and Redemption. Jewish and Christian writers (since the time, as supposed, of Elias) have intimated the idea, that as the one was finished in seven days, the other will be accomplished in seven thousand years. St. Peter admonishes the church, that "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day;" and as he is there speaking of " the day of the Lord," "iť which the heavens shall pass away," and "the earth also, a...
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