2 Peter — Introduction

^{0 !} The effect of the Apostle here is to exhorte them which haue once professed the true faith of Christ, to stande to the same euen to the last breath: also that God by his effectual grace towardes men moueth them to holines of life in punishing the hypocrites which abuse his Name, & in increasing his gifts in the godlie: wherefore by godlie life he being now almost at death dare, exhorteht them to approue their vocation, not setting their affections on worldlie things (as he had oft write vnto them) but lifting their eyes towarde heauen as they be taught by the Gospel, whereof he is a cleare witnes, chiefly in that he heard with his owne eares but Christ was proclaimed from heauen to be the Sonne of God, as likewise the Prophetes testified. And lest they shulde promise to them selues quietnes by professing the Gospel, he warneth them bothe of troubles which they shulde susteine by the false teachers, and also by the mockers & contemners of religion, whose maners and trade he liuely setteth forthe as in a table: aduertising the faithful not onely to waite diligently for Christ, but also to beholde presently the day of his comming, and to preserue them selues vnspotted against the same.