 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pàgines
...classes, we may turn to those remarkable expressions of St. Peter and St. Paul :.... " If, after having escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. If we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice... | |
 | 1804 - 438 pàgines
...servants of corruption : for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 392 '21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pàgines
...servants of corruption : for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 20 For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have... | |
 | Timothy Kenrick - 1807 - 684 pàgines
...they become stronger and more inveterate than before. Peter has expressed the same sentiment; " for if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning." 2 Peter, ih 20. 46. While he yet talked to the people, behold his mother and his brethren stood without,... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pàgines
...and said unto thee, live. Zeph. iii. 1. Woe to the city that is filthy and polluted. 2 Pet. ii. 20. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. See the wicked pollute God's name. Isa. xx. 9. — xlviii. 11. Jer.xxxiv. 16. Ezek.xiii. 19. — xxxix.r.Mal.... | |
 | 1807 - 592 pàgines
...Church) that " if Christianity be true, it is tremendously true* :" — and better will it be " not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they...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 - 1808 - 592 pàgines
...servants of corruption : for, of whom a man is overcome, of the same he is brought in bondage. For, if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...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,... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 304 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 578 pàgines
...and 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...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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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... 
