you will thus be richly furnished with the right of entry into the eternal realm of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ.

and thus we have gained fresh confirmation of the prophetic word. Pray attend to that word; it shines like a lamp within a darksome spot, till the Day dawns and the daystar rises within your hearts ??20 understanding this, at the outset, that no prophetic scripture allows a man to interpret it by himself;

if he reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorra to ashes when he sentenced them to devastation, and thus gave the impious an example of what was in store for them,

Now as all things are thus to be dissolved, what holy and pious men ought you to be in your behaviour,