 | 1821 - 614 pages
...remembering these texts, " For it bad been better for thara not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered uato them." — " To whom much is given, of him much will be required." You have beau taught the principles... | |
 | John Newton - 1821 - 656 pages
...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. " OMICRON. ON DREAMING. Dear Madam, T THANK you for your obliging letter, and -*- would... | |
 | Andrew Ramsay - Sermons, English - 1821 - 500 pages
...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." Alas ! how melancholy is the ' reflection, that there should be in the world persons... | |
 | Willis Harris - Methodist Church - 1821 - 344 pages
...has come into the world." " For it were better for them not to have known the ways of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." The faculties of our minds were given us to be employed in seeking to find out God, not... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 568 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 has happened unto them according to the true proverb : The dog is turned to his own... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 544 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 them1." So that a relapse, after a state of grace, into a state of sin, into confirmed habits,... | |
 | Henry Kollock - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 442 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." Listen, and let your soul quake within you while you listen, to that terrible declaration... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 554 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 them1." So that a relapse, after a state of grace, into a state of sin, into confirmed habits,... | |
 | Mark Copeland - Religion - 2002 - 114 pages
...spouse, and your children. "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. 2:21). You have found pleasure in your sins, and tossed aside the holy words of... | |
 | Thomas Holland - Bible - 2002 - 338 pages
...than the beginning. 2 1 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 Verses 15-16: delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The... | |
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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... 
