 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
 | Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1809 - 414 pages
...holds up the same warning — " 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 to them." Remarkable are the words of our Saviour to his Apostles, when he sent them forth to preach... | |
 | Christian biography - 1810 - 480 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 has happened unto them according to the true proverb, "The dog is turned to his own vomit again;... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - Theology, Doctrinal - 1810 - 272 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 proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...or remedy ning. Ver. 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. Ver. 22. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The~dog is turned to his own vomit... | |
 | Theophilus Lindsey - Sermons, English - 1810 - 550 pages
...(says an apostle, 2 Pet. ii. 21.) had it been for some not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have .known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them." The great aim and business of the Gospel is, by teaching more worthy and exalted sentiments... | |
 | David Savile - Revelation - 1810 - 440 pages
...than the be" ginning ; for it had been better for them " not to have known the way of righteous" ness, than after they have known it, to " turn from the holy commandment deli" vered unto them ; but it is happened un*' to them according to the true proverb, — " The dog... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 460 pages
...heard a voice saying, " 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. ii. 21. This answer cut me to the very quick, and brought me even to the gates of death ; for... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock (bp. of London.) - 1812 - 464 pages
...judgment did not linger, nor their own damnation Jlumber, ver. 3 ; that it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than,...known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them, ver. 21. In the third and laft chapter he confiders the fcoffers, and their irreligious infult,... | |
 | John Owen - Bible - 1813 - 644 pages
...apostle determines this matter, " It had been better for men not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them," 2 Peter ii. 21. Again, This unbelief in rejecting the gospel, is either notional and practical, or... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - Sandemanianism - 1812 - 226 pages
...either side of the question as he finds occasion:" but this I to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." Sermons, p. 66. suy, he appears to me to feel the force of some truths -which do not well comport with... | |
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