 | Hosea Ballou - Sermons, American - 1818 - 448 pages
...he had not at that time been born of the spirit of truth ; for Peter says of those that fall away ; "It had been better for them not to have known the...than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandments delivered unto them." Either of these suppositions is within the possible meaning of the... | |
 | Edward Cooper - Sermons, English - 1818 - 362 pages
...receive a greater damnation. " It had been better for them (says St. Peter of such characters) not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." * And St. Jude declares of such, that to them is " reserved th« * 2 Pet. ii. 21. " blackness of darkness... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...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;...it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto themp. Wherefore, look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that... | |
 | Hector Davies Morgan - Calvinism - 1819 - 442 pages
...Saviour Jesus " Christ, they are again entangled therein, " and overcome, the latter end is worse " than the beginning. For it had been " better for them...after they have " known it, to turn from the holy com** mandment delivered unto them b ." y 1 Cor. xv. 2. z Galat. iii. 4. iv. 20. a Hebrews vi. 4,5,6.... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1831 - 516 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,...with them than the beginning: For it had been better they had not known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment... | |
 | Theology - 1823 - 314 pages
...after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord an.d Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome,...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." Christ's coming '^to set a man at vai iance against his father, and the daughter against her mother,... | |
 | Theology - 1826 - 302 pages
...belief to set me right. JB A QUESTION FOR THE BKI.IKVF.R IN ENDLESS MI8ERT TO SOLVE. An Apostle says, "For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after VOL. VI. 3 St> Christian Repository. they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered... | |
 | Church of England articles - 1821 - 234 pages
...after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord aud Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome,...commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverh, The dog has turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that... | |
 | Church of England articles - 1821 - 234 pages
...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,...from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it ia happened unto them according to the true proverh, The dog has turned to his own vomit again; and... | |
 | Andrew Ramsay - Sermons, English - 1821 - 500 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 "...from the " holy commandment delivered unto " them." Alas ! how melancholy is the ' reflection, that there should be in the world persons possessed of the... | |
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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... 
