 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
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 498 pàgines
...resistance. Hear St. Peter, // had been better for them not to have known Uie way of righteousness, than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment, 2 Epist. ii. 21. The case of those who commit the unpardonable sin, attests the same. Hear these thundering... | |
 | Ethan Smith - 1814 - 598 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:... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1845 - 496 pàgines
...state of salvation. " Better would it have been for such not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment." (2 Peter ii. 2l.) Perhaps I may not be deemed intrusive, if I suggest a preventive of the danger I... | |
 | John Mannock - 1815 - 352 pàgines
...Heb. x. 26. and St. Peter, 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 which was given them. 2. Peter, ii. 21. King Pharoah sinned grievously herein, when so often admonished... | |
 | 1815 - 294 pàgines
...beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known tiie way of righteousness, than, afrer th*y have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. Blessed is the man that endure'h temptation : for when he is tried, he ihail receive the crown of life... | |
 | Daniel Whitby - 1816 - 488 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 to them. But it is happened to them according to the true proverb, — the dog is turned to his own... | |
 | Edward Cooper - 1816 - 344 pàgines
...been better for them (says St. Peter of such characters) not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delir vered unto them."* And St. Jude declares of such, that to them is " reserved the » 3 Pet. ii.... | |
 | sir George Pretyman Tomline (bart, bp. of Winchester.) - 1817 - 628 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 (d)" St. Paul tells the Romans and Galatians, that they have been justified ; and as a means to obtain... | |
 | 1817 - 370 pàgines
...beginning. ' For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they had known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.' 2 Pet. ii. 20, 21. That the 'knowledge of the way of righteousness, which they had attained, was an inward experimental... | |
 | John Kenrick - 1817 - 650 pàgines
...Por it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, (the doctrine of Christ,) than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it is happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit... | |
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