II Peter, chap, i, verses 12–15. “ Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things , though ye know them and be established in the present truth .  Yea , I think it meet , as long as I am in this tabernacle , to stir you up by putting you in remembrance ; knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle , even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me .  Moreover , I will endeavour that ye may be able , after my decease , to have these things always in reme