Mace(i)
1 Take notice that in the latter days difficult incidents will arise;
2 for men will be selfish, avaricious, vain, proud, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful,
3 villainous, unnatural, perfidious, defamers, debauchees,
4 cruel, enemies to virtue, traitors, insolent, conceited, and more devoted to pleasure than to piety:
5 of which they wear the appearance, but disclaim its influence. have no intercourse with such.
6 Of this number are they, who insinuate themselves into families, to make a prey of the weaker sex, who are inveigled by their vitious suggestions, abetted by their own subtle passions,
7 and by lending an assiduous ear to such lessons, render it impossible they should ever be acquainted with the truth.
8 Moses did not meet with greater opposition from Jannes and Jambres, than truth does from men so corrupted in their mind, and so adulterated in their faith.
9 but they will be stop'd in their career; for they shall be expos'd to the world for impostors, as those magicians were.