 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
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...them than the beginning; 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 themk. For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift,... | |
 | Theology - 1823 - 314 pages
...them than the beginning. 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." Christ's coming '^to set a man at vai iance against his father, and the daughter against her mother,... | |
 | Theology - 1826 - 302 pages
...for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after VOL. VI. 3 St> Christian Repository. they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." Now the believer in endless misery supposes that those who have never known the way of righteousness,... | |
 | John Wesley, George Story - Christianity - 1806
...Holy Ghofl. " If any man draw back, my foul fhall have no pleafure in him." It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than,...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." By fo doing they are difpleafing to God, and offenfive to men. The Holy Spirit is grieved, the ferious... | |
 | Church of England articles - 1821 - 234 pages
...them than the beginning. 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. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverh, The dog has turned to his own vomit again;... | |
 | Willis Harris - Methodist Church - 1821 - 346 pages
...has come into the world." " For it were better for them not to have known the ways of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." The faculties of our minds were given us to be employed in seeking to find out God, not indeed to perfection,... | |
 | Andrew Ramsay - Sermons, English - 1821 - 434 pages
...than the beginning. 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." Alas ! how melancholy is the ' reflection, that there should be in the world persons possessed of the... | |
 | John Newton - 1821 - 658 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. " OMICRON. ON DREAMING. Dear Madam, T THANK you for your obliging letter, and -*- would be thankful... | |
 | Mark Copeland - Religion - 2002 - 114 pages
...spouse, and your children. "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" (2 Pet. 2:21). You have found pleasure in your sins, and tossed aside the holy words of God. For this,... | |
 | Thomas Holland - Religion - 2002 - 339 pages
...than the beginning. 2 1 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 Verses 15-16: delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The... | |
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