 | Holy Spirit - 1805 - 298 pages
...to itself, to increase the number of those sorrowful examples, which, justify the strong and antient proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again, and the sow that teas washed to her wallowing in the mire. These examples, therefore, serve to convince us, more entirely,... | |
 | Henry Kett - Antichrist - 1805 - 448 pages
...holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true . ' proverb, proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again ; and the fow that was wajhed, to her wallowing in the mire. This fecond Rpiftle, beloved, I now write unto you... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Bible - 1806 - 338 pages
...under their feet, and turn again and rent you. ^ Pet. ii. a2, But it is happened to them according to the true proverb. The dog is turned to his own vomit again : and the fow that was walhed to her wallowing in the mire. u Pfalm xxii. 16, For dogs have compafled me, the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...harvest, we lost half our crops. This overset all my wisdom, and I returned, like the dog to his vomit, and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire* " I now began to be known in the neighbourhood as a maker of rhymes. The first of my poetic offspring that... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...harvest, we lost half our crops. This overset all my wisdom, and I returned, like the dog to his vomit, and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.* • " I now began to be known in the neighbourhood as a maker of rhymes. The first of my poetic offspring that... | |
 | Jean Siffrein Maury - Eloquence - 1807 - 298 pages
...proverbs, which the learned generally suppose to have been from some comic writer' whose works are lost, ' The dog is turned to his own vomit again, ' and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the ' mire.' ? Did not Maury recollect these, and many others ; or had rancour benumbed... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 592 pages
...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 vomit again, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire."t '• There are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 304 pages
...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 vomit again, and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire/"f " There are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained... | |
 | Theophilus Lindsey - Sermons, English - 1810 - 564 pages
...use the homely but serious reprehension of the apostle, — " it has happened to them according to the true proverb ; The dog is turned to his own vomit again ; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." (2 Pet. ii. 22.) V. Lastly : If the behaviour of one of these men who were... | |
 | David Savile - Revelation - 1810 - 440 pages
...turn from the holy commandment deli" vered unto them ; but it is happened un*' to them according to the true proverb, — " The dog is turned to his own...vomit again, " and the sow that was washed, to her wal" lowing in the mire *." And to correct a similar abuse which some were then making of the grace... | |
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But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. 
