 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...  A System of Revealed Religion ... - Page 1731819Full view - About this book
 | John Kenrick - Bible - 1817 - 650 pages
...them liberty, while they are themselves the slaves of corruption. " For," concludes the apostle, " if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. Por it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, (the doctrine of Christ,)... | |
 | Arminianism - 1817 - 370 pages
...through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (the only possible way of escaping them) they are again entangled therein and overcome ; the...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... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - Sermons, American - 1818 - 432 pages
...cursed children ; which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray." And further he says of them ; "If after they have escaped the pollutions of the...than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandments delivered unto them." It is evident that those of whom the Apostle spake, had been in... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - Sermons, American - 1818 - 448 pages
...they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesua Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome...than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandments delivered unto them." 247 It is evident that those of whom the Apostl* spake, had been... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1831 - 516 pages
...brought to the knowledge of the truth, have thoughtlessly gone back to the sinful courses of the world: "For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of...with them than the beginning: For it had been better they had not known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment... | |
 | 1834 - 778 pages
...26—29.) St. Peter also has this observation, in his 2d Epistle, which is much to the same point : " If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...entangled therein and overcome : the latter end is worse than the beginning." And once more, in one of St. John's Epistles, we are told this truth : " There... | |
 | Hector Davies Morgan - Calvinism - 1819 - 442 pages
...Saviour Jesus " Christ, they are again entangled therein, " and overcome, the latter end is worse " than the beginning. For it had been " better for them...after they have " known it, to turn from the holy com** mandment delivered unto them b ." y 1 Cor. xv. 2. z Galat. iii. 4. iv. 20. a Hebrews vi. 4,5,6.... | |
 | Theology - 1823 - 314 pages
...if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord an.d Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and...it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." Christ's coming '^to set a man at vai iance against his father, and the daughter against her... | |
 | Andrew Ramsay - Sermons, English - 1821 - 500 pages
...this character the Apostle Peter speaks in his 2d epistle, 2d chap, ver. 20 and 21, when he says : " For if " after they have escaped the pollutions "...to turn from the " holy commandment delivered unto " them." Alas ! how melancholy is the ' reflection, that there should be in the world persons possessed... | |
 | Church of England articles - 1821 - 234 pages
...them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. 1 Pet. ii. 8. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it ia happened unto them according to the true proverh, The dog has turned to his own vomit... | |
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