 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 592 pages
...those that were clean escaped from them who live in error :" upon which the Apostle remarks, " It had been better for them not to have known the way of...known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. "I1 II. It will be proper for me now to consider an objection, which may possibly be urged... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 304 pages
...those that were clean escaped from them who live in error :" upon which the Apostle remarks, " It had been better for them not to have known the way of...known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them."f II. It will be proper for me now to consider an objection, which may possibly be urged... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 596 pages
...in error :" upon which the Apostle remarks, " It had been better for them not to have known the way1 of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them."^ II. It will be proper for me now to consider an objection, which may possibly be urged... | |
 | Bible - 1808 - 480 pages
...entangled and overcome by them, the last state of such persons is worse 21 than the first. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to 22 turn away from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it hath happened to them... | |
 | John Newton - Theology - 1809 - 312 pages
...unto death, to restore them to their right minds, and to recover them to himself. Otherwise, " it had been better for them not to have known " the way of...it, to turn from the holy commandment, " delivered unto them." OMICRONON DREAMING. DEAR. MADAM, I THANK you for your obliging letter, and would be thankful... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 578 pages
...apostacy of these elevated break-neck professors, see that most dreadful place, 2 Pet. ii. 21. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of...known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. Is not the wrath of God certainly to be revealed agamst all those, who know not God, and... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 648 pages
...Peter speaks of Apostates, 2 Pet. ii. 21. is but too well applicable to the knowing sinner: It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known zV, to turn asideyrowt the. .'. commandment delivered unto them. How ! better not to have known it... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1809 - 414 pages
...only entangled, but overcome. And " their last state is worse than the first." It is added, " It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after . they had known it, to turn from the holy commandment." They knew the way of righteousness, and- yet turned... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1809 - 366 pages
...vi. 16. (m) 1 Pet. v. 9. (p) Heb. xl. 34. ticc is preparing for them ; and it would hare been letter for them, not to have known the Way of Righteousness, than after having known it, to turn aside from the holy Commandment (u). But I would, by Divine Grace, -hope better... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...immediately before w or after these x, or other helps to prevent or remedy ning. Ver. 21. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of...known it, to 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... | |
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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... 
