 | John Owen, Edward Williams - Bible - 1812 - 596 pages
...distempers who hath rejected and despised it, what can cure him? "It had been better for men not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandments delivered to them," 2 Pet. ii, 21. Renegadoes from the gospel are the greatest villains... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1812 - 462 pages
...through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, [the only possible way of escaping them, j they are again entangled therein .and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the jbegipiting," 2 Pet. ii. 20, 21. " For it had been better for them, not to have known the way of righteousness,... | |
 | Richard Mant - Apologetics - 1813 - 440 pages
...but liereafter they will be painfully convinced of the truth of the warning of the Apostle, that " it had been better for them not to have known the...from the Holy Commandment, delivered unto them'." Surely, my beloved brethren, it were more prudent to suffer ourselves to be persuaded of this in time,... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1813 - 580 pages
...is worse with them than the beginning. Ver. 21. For it had been better for them not to have Jcnown the way of righteousness, than, after they have known...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 his own vomit... | |
 | Missions - 1841 - 712 pages
...after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome,...latter end is worse with them than the beginning," 2 Peter ii. 20. Such texts, I fear, are made too light of among us. There is a disposition, by adroit... | |
 | Ethan Smith - Antichrist - 1814 - 598 pages
...after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome,...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... | |
 | 1814 - 570 pages
...are again entangled therein, and overeome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had been better for them not to have known...righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy'command-, ment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them aeeording to the true proverb,... | |
 | Lorenzo Dow - Christian life - 1814 - 666 pages
...world, through the knowledge of Christ, &c. — and yet are again entangled therein. And saith he, it had been better for them not to have known the...of righteousness, than after they have known it, to tarn from, &c.. ('4 Pet. i. 9. and ii. 20. to the end,) how could they have forgot that which they... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1845 - 496 pages
...Christian character, and alone evidences a state of salvation. " Better would it have been for such not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they...have known it, to turn from the holy commandment." (2 Peter ii. 2l.) Perhaps I may not be deemed intrusive, if I suggest a preventive of the danger I... | |
 | Nathan Bangs - Theology, Doctrinal - 1815 - 336 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...have known the way of righteousness, than after they had known.it, to turn irom the holy commandment delivered unto them." On this text it is proper to... | |
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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... 
