 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them...  An Exposition of the Church-catechism - Page 132by Samuel Clarke, John Clarke - 1729 - 344 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1804 - 438 pages
...the beginning. 392 '21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from .the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again;... | |
 | Josiah Spalding - Universalism - 1805 - 372 pages
...tie apofllc Peter fays, to have its import without end : ' I r had been better for them * not to bave known the way of righteoufnefs, than, after they have 'known it, to turn from the holy commandrnen' delivered unto them.' And Dr. H. fays that there will be, amone the redeemed in heaven,... | |
 | Henry Kett - Antichrist - 1805 - 448 pages
...them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of rightetufnefs, •than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true . ' proverb, proverb, The dog is turned to his own... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1806 - 470 pages
...therein, and overcome: the latter end is worfe with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. Heb 6. 4. r Ifai. 11. 11, 13. And in that day did the Lord God of hofts call to weeping and to mourning,... | |
 | 1807 - 592 pages
...it is tremendously true* :" — and better will it be " not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto themf." 4 It may be, however, that we only waste our time, in pressing such. considerations as these,... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 592 pages
...which the Apostle remarks, " It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. "I1 II. It will be proper for me now to consider an objection, which may possibly be urged against... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 304 pages
...which the Apostle remarks, " It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them."f II. It will be proper for me now to consider an objection, which may possibly be urged against... | |
 | John Newton - 1808 - 622 pages
...and aggravated doom. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. If. you were forced to run for your lives, you would be very thoughtful about the event. But... | |
 | John Newton - Theology - 1809 - 312 pages
...to himself. Otherwise, " it had been better for them not to have known " the way of righteousness, than after they have " known it, to turn from the holy commandment, " delivered unto them." OMICRONON DREAMING. DEAR. MADAM, I THANK you for your obliging letter, and would be thankful to the... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 578 pages
...dreadful place, 2 Pet. ii. 21. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. Is not the wrath of God certainly to be revealed agamst all those, who know not God, and obey not the... | |
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