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For certain men have insinuated themselves among you, who were formerly proscrib'd to be punish'd; impious men, who pervert the divine favour to licentiousness, and renounce their only master, and Jesus Christ our Lord.

As for these, they inveigh against what they do not understand: and abuse those natural instincts which regulate brute animals.

raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame: wandering lights, to whom is reserv'd the thickest darkness for ever.

As for you, my beloved, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ have formerly told you.

for they assur'd you, there would be impostors in the last days, who would follow their own impious passions.

to God only wise, our saviour, be glory, magnificence, power, and empire, both now and for ever.

Happy is he that reads, and attends to the words of this prophecy, and observes the matter therein contain'd: for the time draws nigh.

who hath made us kings and priests to his God and father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

I JOHN, who am your brother, and partake in the tribulation, in the reign, and in the patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony I gave of Jesus Christ.

I am he that liveth; I was dead; but now you see I am alive for all eternity, amen; and I have the keys of the grave, and of death."

thou hast suffer'd, hast patience, for my name's sake thou hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

be watchful, and fortify the rest that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.

thou hast a few persons in Sardis who have not defiled their garments; they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.

I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for tho' few in number, you have kept my word, and have not renounced my name.

I counsel thee to purchase of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayst be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayst be cloathed, and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear; and an ointment for thine eyes to make you see clear.

and honour, and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, the

four and twenty elders fell down before him that sat on the throne, and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

"thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, and honour, and power: for thou hast created all things, by thy WILL they subsist, and were created."

and they sung a new song, saying, "thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation;

and every creature which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I, saying, "blessing, and honour, and glory, and power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the lamb for ever and ever."