 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,...  Ruth - Page 57by Aubrey Charles Price - 1869Full view - About this book
 | John Ball - Arminianism - 1645 - 380 pages
...Church, enjoyed the Ordinances of God, profcflcd the faith, had known the way of truth, and efcaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jcfos Chrift. i/Vf.a.so. they had turned from the holy Commandement delivered onto tticm, and it had... | |
 | James Ussher - 1660 - 628 pages
...say, he doth this too ; but how shall this be proved ? most evidently in 2 Peter, chap. II. ver. 20. " For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and overcome, the latter end with them... | |
 | John Scott - Christian life - 1686 - 486 pages
...than ever. For thus S. Peter determines in the Cafe, 2 Pet. ii. 20, 2 1. If after they have- efcaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jefm Chrift, they are again int angled therein, endwercomejhe latter end is worfe with them than the... | |
 | Henry Dodwell - Immortality - 1706 - 434 pages
...the Gofpel. So St. Peter $ It had been letter for them not to have known the way of Rijihteoufnefi, than after they have known it , to turn from the holy Commandment delivered unto them: a St. Pet. ii. zi. This is the fame Ignorance., and the fame Commandment now mentioned by St. Paul.... | |
 | Sir William Dawes - Conscience - 1707 - 530 pages
...better for them never to have known ' '; i4 ., J „ . , rrir Mar.tf.ll the way of righteoufnefs , than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. So that, if there were ground, from Scripture, to hope, that any of the damn'd (hould ever... | |
 | William Payne - Repentance - 1708 - 432 pages
...Saviour Jeftu Chrift, they are again entangled therein and overcome j the latter end is worfe wifh them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of right eonfnefs, then after they have known *>, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.... | |
 | John Norris - English literature - 1710 - 392 pages
...hav^ ing in it many degrees of Evil beyond the lommon State of Sin. for if after they have efcaped the Pollutions of the World through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Je~ fits Chrift, they are again entangled therein and overcome^ the Inner End is worje with them than... | |
 | William Beveridge - 1711 - 892 pages
...to dtftroy tb¿ Works of {be Devi!, I John »ii. 8. ' But, as the Apoftle obferves. Men efcafe tee pollutions of the World, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jefus Cbrift, 2 Pet. ii. 20. For by it we know how to overcome the World, fo as to live above it :... | |
 | Francis Gastrell (bp. of Chester) - 1717 - 352 pages
...trefpafted , and in his Sin that . he hath finned, in them (hall he die. c If they that had efcaped the Pollutions of. the World, through the Knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrid, are again intangled therein, and overcome ; the latter end is worfc' with. them than the... | |
 | Luke Milbourne - 1722 - 454 pages
...Gofpel, that, It bad been bet- 2 Pet. 2, ier for them not to have known the Way of Righ-'21' teoiifnefs, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy Commandment delivered to them -, it may be truly faid of thefe -, it had been better for them never to have aflumed the Chaf... | |
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