| Theophilus Lindsey - Sermons, English - 1810 - 550 pages
...(says an apostle, 2 Pet. ii. 21.) had it been for some not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have .known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them." The great aim and business of the Gospel is, by teaching more worthy and exalted sentiments of the... | |
| Andrew Fuller - Theology, Doctrinal - 1810 - 272 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... | |
| Christian biography - 1810 - 480 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... | |
| Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...or remedy ning. Ver. 21. 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. Ver. 22. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The~dog is turned to... | |
| David Savile - Revelation - 1810 - 440 pages
...than the be" ginning ; for it had been better for them " not to have known the way of righteous" ness, than after they have known it, to " turn from the holy commandment deli" vered unto them ; but it is happened un*' to them according to the true proverb, — " The dog... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 460 pages
...heard a voice saying, " 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. ii. 21. This answer cut me to the very quick, and brought me even to the gates of... | |
| Thomas Sherlock (bp. of London.) - 1812 - 464 pages
...nor their own damnation Jlumber, ver. 3 ; that it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than, /after they have known...turn from the holy commandment delivered to them, ver. 21. In the third and laft chapter he confiders the fcoffers, and their irreligious infult, Where... | |
| Andrew Fuller - Sandemanianism - 1812 - 226 pages
...either side of the question as he finds occasion:" but this I to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." Sermons, p. 66. suy, he appears to me to feel the force of some truths -which do not well... | |
| Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1812 - 630 pages
...It had been better for them, as St. Paul expresses it, 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. ii. 21. Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment... | |
| John Jones - 1812 - 1054 pages
...conformed to his gospel. " 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 ife hath happened to them, according to the true proverb, The dog returns to his own... | |
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