| Lorenzo Dow - 1804 - 170 pages
...world* through the knowledge of Chrift, &c.— ?rad yet are again entangled therein. And iaith he, it had been better for them not to have known the...righteoufnefs, than after they have known it, to turn from, &c, (2 Pet. i. 9, and 2C. 2ov, to the end) how could they have forgot that which they knew, &c. Again,... | |
| 1804 - 438 pages
...the beginning. 392 '21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from .the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again;... | |
| John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pages
...they are again entangled therein and overcome ; the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For, it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.... | |
| 1804 - 476 pages
...are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.... | |
| Josiah Spalding - 1805 - 376 pages
...tie apofllc Peter fays, to have its import without end : ' I r had been better for them * not to bave known the way of righteoufnefs, than, after they have 'known it, to turn from the holy commandrnen' delivered unto them.' And Dr. H. fays that there will be, amone the redeemed in heaven,... | |
| Henry Kett - 1805 - 448 pages
...them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of rightetufnefs, •than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true . ' proverb, proverb, The dog is turned to his own... | |
| Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1806 - 508 pages
...they are again entangled therein, and overcome: the latter end is worfe with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. Heb 6. 4. r Ifai. 11. 11, 13. And in that day did the Lord God of hofts call to weeping and to mourning,... | |
| 1807 - 592 pages
...it is tremendously true* :" — and better will it be " not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto themf." 4 It may be, however, that we only waste our time, in pressing such. considerations as these,... | |
| Philip Doddridge - 1807 - 428 pages
...Christ, they are entangled and subdu21 ed by them again, their last state is worse than the first. Fork had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it to have turned aside from the holy 22 commandment delivered to... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 596 pages
...they are again entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.... | |
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