 | Henry Kollock - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 442 pages
...recovery is more difficult, and less probable. Listen with a holy awe to St. Peter, whilst he cries, " If after they have escaped the. pollutions of the...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... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...14. Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked. 2 Pet. ii. 20, 2 1 . For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. Ezek. xxiii. 37 — 39. That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 550 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... | |
 | Edward John Burrow - 1822 - 594 pages
...heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. 2 Pet. ii, 20, 21 . For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end isQG worse with them than the beginning. For it had beet better for them not to have known the way... | |
 | Whitlock Nicol - 1823 - 356 pages
...17. d Rom. ii. 6 — 9. b 2 Thess. i. 7, 8. « John, iii. 19. « Matt. xvi. 27. f 2 Peter, ii. 21. of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and...the latter end is worse with them than the beginning *." " For, if we wilfully sin after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no... | |
 | Greville Ewing - Baptism - 1824 - 268 pages
...sins." Nay, he declares the danger of such a state in still stronger terms, 2 Epis. ii. 20 — 22. " 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, tha!n, after they have... | |
 | James Nichols - Arminianism - 1824 - 562 pages
...dwell there. And the last state of that man is worse than the first. Matt, xii, 43 — 15. — For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 2 Peter ii, 20 ; compare this with verse 1, <^c. — For it is impossible, (that is, very difficult,... | |
 | James Nichols - 1824 - 554 pages
...dwell there. And the last state of that man is worse than the first. Matt, xii, 43 — 45. — For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 2 Peter ii, 20 ; compare this with verse 1, <^c. — For it is impossible, (that is, very difficult,... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - Baptists - 1824 - 506 pages
...the last state of that man is worse than the first a.' To the same purpose says the apostle Peter, ' If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,...entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than... | |
 | Bible - 1824 - 462 pages
...servants of corruption : for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have... | |
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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. 
