 | sir George Pretyman Tomline (bart, bp. of Winchester.) - 1817 - 644 pages
...in his sins, his apostasy from the truth would be an aggravation of his guilt and punishment : " For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known... | |
 | 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...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such, is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...latter end is worse with them than the beginning; for it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1831 - 516 pages
...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 the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning: For it had been better they had not known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known... | |
 | Andrew Ramsay - Sermons, English - 1821 - 500 pages
...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 " of the...latter end is worse with " them than the beginning. For it had " been better for them not to have known " the way of righteousness, than, after " they... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 568 pages
...servants of corruption ; for of whom a man is overcome, by the same he is brought into bondage. For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning: for it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known... | |
 | Arminianism - 1819 - 996 pages
...forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts," ver. 19. "If after they have escaped the pollutions of the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning," 2 Pet. ii. 20. " They say, if a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 554 pages
...next to desperate. 21. I represent this sad, but most true doctrine, in the •words of St. Peter : " If, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known... | |
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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. 
