IV. The Spirit of the World and the Spirit of Christianity, 73 99 121 137 155 177 195 215 A DIVINE NATURE. 2 PETER i. 4. Partakers of the divine nature. THE text occurs in the salutation with which the apostle Peter opens his epistle to those, who had "obtained like precious faith with him through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ." "Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue; whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises; that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. "And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, pa |