mercy, and peace, and love be multiplied unto you.

Wo unto them; for they have gone in the way of Cain, and been carried away by Balaam's error, the love of lucre, and perished as in the contradiction of Korah.

These are spots in your love-feasts, feeding themselves without fear, when they are feasting with you: clouds without water, carried about by the winds; trees withered and without fruit, twice dead and rooted up; raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame;

But, beloved, remember the words which were formerly spoken by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; for they told you,

that in the latter days there will be scoffers, walking according to their own impious lusts.

as snatching them out of the fire: hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

to the only wise God our Saviour be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and for ever. Amen.