 | Josiah Hort (abp. of Tuam.) - 1738 - 534 pages
...entangled therein and overcome, he fays, that the latter End is worfe 'with them than the Beginning Jorit had been better for them not to have known the Way of RighteouJnefi, than to turn ajide from the holy Commandment delivered unto them. I (hould proceed in... | |
 | Daniel Wilcox - 1744 - 454 pages
...end in the flefh ; fuch may be faid to be twice dead, and in the moft deplorable cafe of any others : For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteoufnefe, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them,... | |
 | 1744 - 448 pages
...fuch unhappy creatures to have had nothing at ail done to them, becaufe, as the apoftle affures us, it had been better for them not to have known the way of rjghteoufnejs, than after they have known it, to turn from the hc-ly commandment delivered unto them.... | |
 | 1769 - 760 pages
...Chrift, they are again intangled therein and overcome ; the latter end is worfe than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteoufaefs, than after thejr have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.... | |
 | Francis Fox - 1748 - 598 pages
...therein, and overcome j the latter end is worfe Kith them than the beginning. 21. For. it had been s better for them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs,...turn from the holy commandment delivered ' unto them. 22. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The u dog is turned to his own vomit... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1748 - 448 pages
...gives the reafon, $ 21. For it had been better fir them not to have known the may ofrightcoufnefs, than after they have kno-wn it, to turn from the holy...them, And St. John calls this fin of apoftafy, the fln unto death : and tho- he do not forbid Chriftians to pray for them that are guilty of it ; yet... | |
 | John Abernethy - 1748 - 414 pages
...hardened, and their reformation rendered more difficult, as St. Peter fays, 2d epift. ii. 21. It -were better for them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs,...they have known it to turn from the holy commandment. But after all there is no other remedy ; repent they muft or perifh. Tho' the fcripture fpeaks but... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1748 - 438 pages
...this light and knowledge. So the fame Apoftle declares, chap. ii. 2.r. For it had beenbetter for jhem not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than after they have known it, to turn front the holy commandment delivered unto them. I proceed to the Fourth particular, That i£ we make... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1748 - 470 pages
...This is that which St. Peter calls, the holy (tmmandment which was delivered unto them, z Pet. ii. 21. It had been better for them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs , than afeer they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them, fpeaking in all probability... | |
 | Peter Brett - 1748 - 260 pages
...fame reproachcth the Lord ; and that Soul fhall be cut off from among his People. 2 Peter ii. 21, 22 For it had been better for them not to have known the Way of RighteoulV nefs, than after they have known it, to turn from the Holy Commandment delivered unto them.... | |
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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. 
