this

And besides this, giuing all diligence, adde to your faith, vertue; and to vertue knowledge;

Yea, I thinke it meete, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stirre you vp, by putting you in remembrance:

Knowing that shortly I must put off this my Tabernacle, euen as our Lord Iesus Christ hath shewed mee.

1611 marginal noteIoh. 21.17.

For hee receiued from God the Father, honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloued Sonne in whom I am well pleased.

And this voice which came from heauen wee heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any priuate Interpretation:

¶ This second Epistle (beloued) I now write vnto you, in both which I stir vp your pure mindes by way of remembrance:

Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last dayes scoffers, walking after their owne lusts,

For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heauens were of olde, and the earth standing out of the water, and in the water,

1611 marginal noteGr. consisting.

But (beloued) bee not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand yeeres, and a thousand yeeres as one day.