 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...  A Treatise on English Punctuation - Page 91by John Wilson - 1868Full view - About this book
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 304 pages
...wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error :" upon which the Apostle remarks, " It had been better for them not to have known the...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 - 624 pages
...them. They will not only lose the prize, but will receive a heavy and aggravated doom. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of...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... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 596 pages
...in error :" upon which the Apostle remarks, " It had been better for them not to have known the way1 of righteousness, than, after they have known it,...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them."^ II. It will be proper for me now to consider an objection, which may possibly be urged against the... | |
 | Bible - 1808 - 504 pages
...again entangled and overc.ome by them, the last state of such persons is worse 21 than the first. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to 22 turn away from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it hath happened to them... | |
 | Thomas Belsham - Bible - 1808 - 656 pages
...Christ, they be again entangled in them, and overcome, their 21 last stale is worse than their first. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, when they have, known it, to turn from the holy command22 ment delivered to them.... | |
 | John Newton - Theology - 1809 - 312 pages
...near unto death, to restore them to their right minds, and to recover them to himself. Otherwise, " it had been better for them not to have known " the...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
...apostacy of these elevated break-neck professors, see that most dreadful place, 2 Pet. ii. 21. For it had been better for them not to have known the...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... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1809 - 414 pages
...from heaven." The Apostle Peter, to guard christians against apostasy, holds up the same warning — " It had been better for them not to have known the...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 648 pages
...What St. Peter speaks of Apostates, 2 Pet. ii. 21. is but too well applicable to the knowing sinner: It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known zV, to turn asideyrowt the. .'. commandment delivered unto them. How ! better not to have known it... | |
 | Christianity - 1809 - 220 pages
...Christ, are again, entangled therein and •overcome, the latter end is worse than the beginning, for it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than offer Ihey had known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them,... | |
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