 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 460 pages
...not forget thy commandments," Psalm cxix. 1?6. In answer to this, I thought I heard a voice saying, " For it had been better for them not to have known...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 death ; for... | |
 | George Pretyman - Calvinism - 1811 - 614 pages
...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...beginning. For it had been better for them not to have Jcnown the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from *he holy commandment delivered... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 408 pages
...they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour oo Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome,...beginning; " For it had been better for them not to know the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered... | |
 | Apologetics - 1811 - 300 pages
...they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, •• they are again entangled therein, and...latter end is worse with them than the beginning." Leaving these lukewarm, formal, Laodicean professors to the mercy of God, I subscribe myself, Sir,... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1812 - 378 pages
...had escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, are again entangled therein and overcome; the latter...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. (r) As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in hiin ; holding faith and a good... | |
 | John Jones - 1812 - 1054 pages
...language holds them forth as "persons who once believed in o Christ, and even conformed to his gospel. " It had been better for them not to have known the...from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But ife hath happened to them, according to the true proverb, The dog returns to his own vom|t, and the... | |
 | Missions - 1806 - 662 pages
...entangled therein, and overcome, the hitter end is worse with them than the beginning ; fin it bad been better for them not to have known the way of...than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy coiniinindiftOnt ; but it has happened to them according to thetrue proverb: " The dog is turned to... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - Sandemanianism - 1812 - 226 pages
...he does of me, that " he can take either side of the question as he finds occasion:" but this I to have known the way of righteousness, than after they...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 comport with... | |
 | John Owen - Bible - 1813 - 644 pages
...punishment at the last day. So the apostle determines this matter, " It had been better for men not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them," 2 Peter ii. 21. Again, This unbelief in rejecting the gospel, is either notional and practical, or... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1812 - 630 pages
...mine, I will recompence, saith the Lord'. It had been better for them, as St. Paul expresses it, not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they...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 upon... | |
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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... 
