 | Robert Jenkin - 1708 - 466 pages
...Salvation, and they will not regard Itj they muft be wilfully ignorant if they will not ttmfider, that one day is with the Lord as a thoufand years, and a thoufand years as one day j and it is an argument of his Patience and Long-fuffering, that he doth not bring fpeedy Vengeance... | |
 | Francis Gastrell (bp. of Chester) - 1717 - 352 pages
...His Days are not as the Days of Man ; neither can the number of his Years 'be fearched out. ».Qne Day is with the Lord as a thoufand Years, and a thoufand Years as one Day. UNCH AN GE ABL E. 1 God is the fame Yefterday, to Day, and for evet. . . • " . . J Mf.43.i3. Pf.... | |
 | Edward Harley - 1735 - 798 pages
...all fhould come to Repentance. 8. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one Thing, that one Day it with the Lord as a thoufand Years, and a thoufand Years as one Day. n. Seeing then that all t hi-fi Things fhall be DISSOLVED, what planner of Perfons ought ye to b«... | |
 | Bible - 1737 - 468 pages
...Flames * at the Great *s« i Tttf. IT. 1 6. 8 But (beloved) be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is. with the Lord as a thoufand years, and a thoufand years as one day. z Pa ii. 4. Mattb. xxv. 8. But, for a further Anfwer to 41—46. their impious Objection ; when God... | |
 | Samuel Clarke - 1743 - 500 pages
...prefent at once. A Thaufand years in thy jight, are but as yejlerdayf Pf. xc. 4. And 2.Pet.'m. 8, One day is with the Lord as a Thoufand years, and a Thoufand years as one day. Not, a Thourfand years are one day ; but are to Him, as if they were only one Day. HAVING premifed... | |
 | Francis Fox - 1748 - 598 pages
...judgment, and perdition of ungodly men. 8. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that ' one day is with the Lord as a thoufand years, and a thoufand years as one dav. 9. k The Lord is not flack concerning his promife, (as fome men count (lacknefs) but is ' long-fuffering... | |
 | Benjamin Whichcote - 1751 - 460 pages
...judgment is not the proper work of a day of grace. Laftly, God does not reckon time as we do ; for one day is with the Lord as a thoufand years, and a thoufand years as one day, 2 Pet. ^ii. 8. Thefe things I do but interpofe as cominirrn my way. That, for which I have heaped up... | |
 | John Tillotson - Sermons, English - 1757 - 488 pages
...duration begins, which is never to have an end ; ver. 8. "Be not ignorant of ** this one thing, that one day is with the LORD " as a thoufand years, and a thoufand years as one " day." This, it feems, was a common faying among the Jews, to fignify, that to the eternity of GOD, no finite... | |
 | Thomas Newton (bp. of Bristol.) - Bible - 1766 - 518 pages
...thoufand will be the great fabbatifm or holy reft to the people of God ; one day (2 Pet. III. 8.) being with the Lord as a thoufand years, and a thoufand years as one day. According to (8) tradition too thefe thoufand years of the reign of Chrift and the faints are the great... | |
 | William Matthews (of Bath.) - 1786 - 246 pages
...a ieries fubfifting in the weaknefs of our intellect; for with refpect to him, with whom one day is as a thoufand years, and a thoufand years as one day, there could be no divifion of days, nor any fenfible feries of volition. The creation, therefore, may have... | |
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But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thoufand years, and a thoufand years as one day. 
