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PRINTED FOR J. G. & F. RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD,

AND WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL.

1833.

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ST. PETER wrote this Epistle a very few years before the
city of Jerusalem was taken by the Romans, who left
thereof "not one stone upon another," according to the
words of our Lord's prophecy 1. The apostle, mindful
of his Master's saying, and knowing the time of this
dreadful calamity to be fast approaching, earnestly warns
all his brethren, "lest that day should come upon them
unawares." He exhorteth them to be sober, and watch
unto prayer, that the day of the Lord might not come
upon them as a snare. That dreadful day did come: it
surprised many, alas! too many, whose hearts were over-
charged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of
this life upon them this warning was lost! O let it not
be so upon us! Can any one, even among those who are
now in the flower of their age, say that to them "the

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