 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...  Sermons - Pàgina 38per John Conybeare - 1757Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Newton - 1809 - 312 pàgines
...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." OMICRONON DREAMING. DEAR. MADAM, I THANK you for your obliging letter, and would be thankful to the... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 578 pàgines
...dreadful place, 2 Pet. ii. 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. Is not the wrath of God certainly to be revealed agamst all those, who know not God, and obey not the... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 414 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1810 - 272 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1810 - 480 pàgines
...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;... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 pàgines
...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 - 1810 - 550 pàgines
...(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 - 1810 - 440 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 I was now... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 408 pàgines
...with them than the beginning; " For it had been better for them not to know the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." Our Lord calls this a withering away; Peter terms it a turning away from a knowledge and reformation... | |
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