 | John Newton - 1821 - 656 pàgines
...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...turn from the holy " commandment delivered unto them. " OMICRON. ON DREAMING. Dear Madam, T THANK you for your obliging letter, and -*- would be thankful... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 568 pàgines
...servants of corruption ; for of whom a man is overcome, by the same he is brought into bondage. For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...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... | |
 | Henry Kollock - 1822 - 442 pàgines
...recovery is more difficult, and less probable. Listen with a holy awe to St. Peter, whilst he cries, " If after they have escaped the. pollutions of the...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." Listen, and let your soul quake within you while you listen, to that terrible declaration of St. Paul... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 554 pàgines
...next to desperate. 21. I represent this sad, but most true doctrine, in the •words of St. Peter : " If, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them1." So that a relapse, after a state of grace, into a state of sin, into confirmed habits, is to... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 550 pàgines
...next to desperate. 21. I represent this sad, but most true doctrine, in the words of St. Peter : " If, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them1." So that a relapse, after a state of grace, into a state of sin, into confirmed habits, is to... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pàgines
...14. Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked. 2 Pet. ii. 20, 2 1 . For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. Ezek. xxiii. 37 — 39. That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their... | |
 | 1819 - 996 pàgines
...forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts," ver. 19. "If after they have escaped the pollutions of the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning," 2 Pet. ii. 20. " They say, if a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's,... | |
 | Edward John Burrow - 1822 - 594 pàgines
...heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. 2 Pet. ii, 20, 21 . For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end isQG worse with them than the beginning. For it had beet better for them not to have known the way... | |
 | Aaron Bancroft - 1822 - 468 pàgines
...— " When it shall turn tothe Lord." In 2 Peter ii. 21, the same word is rendered turn from — " It had been better for them not to have known the...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. In these passages the same word is translated to be converted, to turn the body, to turn to the Lord,... | |
 | Whitlock Nicol - 1823 - 356 pàgines
...17. d Rom. ii. 6 — 9. b 2 Thess. i. 7, 8. « John, iii. 19. « Matt. xvi. 27. f 2 Peter, ii. 21. of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and...end is worse with them than the beginning *." " For, if we wilfully sin after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice... | |
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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... 
