| Thomas Taylor - 1789 - 364 pages
...JJ*" 1 ' 'ā¢ 27' For it haJ b.tn tetter far thefe not to have knc'uin tl:e way of" rigbteoufiiffs, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered uito them *. But, alas! alas! thefe art twice dead, plucked up ly the roots, f and, therefore, fit... | |
| Richard Watson - Theology - 1791 - 500 pages
...thelatterEndisworfs with them than the Beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the Way of Righteoufnefs, than after they have known it to turn from the holy Commandment, [the Gofpel] delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true Proverb ; The... | |
| Richard Watson - Theology - 1791 - 506 pages
...is worfe with them than the Beginning, .tor it had beeu better for tnem not to have known the Way ot Righteoufnefs, than after they have known it to turn from the holy Commandment, [the Gofpel] delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true Proverb; The Dog... | |
| Missions - 1796 - 612 pages
...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... | |
| Joseph Priestley - 1794 - 356 pages
...latter end is worfe with them than the beginning. " For it had been better for them not to have " known the way of righteoufnefs, than after " they have known it, to turn from the holy com*' mandment delivered unto them." On this account the apoflles urge their fellowchriftians to conftancy... | |
| John Fletcher - 1794 - 312 pages
...the mount. ]Matt. iv. 33. --It had been better for them not tw Lave known the way of rightesufntfn than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them, 2 Pet. ii. 21. ---By faith Noah moved with fear prtpared an ark, &c, [ie obeyed] by t-he... | |
| Sir Adam Gordon - Sermons, English - 1795 - 440 pages
...being worfe 'with them than the beginning ; for it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. For by fo doing they come under the defcription of the proverb, 'The dog is turned to his... | |
| Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1796 - 530 pages
...faith is worfe than profanenefsĀ» 2 Pet. ii. 21, 22. " It had been better for them, not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment." Inftability being the porch of api ftacy, where this is total, it is worfe than profanity ; for it... | |
| John Flavel - 1799 - 626 pages
...than the beginning. For it " had been better for them not to have known the way of righte" oufnds, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy " commandment delivered unto them." Double meafures of wrath ieera to be prepared for them that die this double death. Inf.... | |
| Daniel Whitby - Calvinism - 1801 - 410 pages
...them than the beginning ; for it had been better for them not to have known the way of righleoujnefs, 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 again,... | |
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