 | Jeremiah Seed - 1770 - 546 pages
...Godlinefs are daily adding to the Number and Malignity of their Sins ? What can we think indeed, but that it had been better for them not to have known the way of Rigbteoufaefs, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy Commandment delivered unto them.... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1774 - 530 pages
...have efcaped the pollutions of the world thro' the kitmuledge of eur Saviour, '[ie for believers]' not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than after...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. — Every tree, that bringech not forth good fruit, is cut down, and call into the_/fo. — Every branch... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1774 - 212 pages
...have efcaped the pollutions of the 'world through the knowledge of our Saviour, [ie 1 for believers] ' not to have known the way of ' righteoufnefs? than...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto 'them. — Every tree, that bringeth not forth good fruit, 'iscutdotun, and caft into the fire. — Every... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1775 - 500 pages
...Seek ye poverty of fpirit, and the holinefs defcribed in the fermon on the mount.] Mat. vi, 33. — 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.... | |
 | John Wesley - 1786 - 738 pages
...to whom the gofpel is revealed may do, and doth it not,*Jhall be beaten wilh many Jlripcs ; and fo it had been better for them not to have known the way of life, or to have had no covenant of grace tendered to them. For if they be not able by the grace which... | |
 | Samuel Ogden - 1780 - 380 pages
...mercies are awful, and every blefling has an edge with which it can a Pet. ii. wound. // had bun better not to have *!• known the "way of righteoufnefs,...than after they have known it, to turn from the holy John v. commandment delivered unto them. — Behold I4» thou art made wholet fin no moret left a worfe... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1782 - 478 pages
...therein, and overcome ; the latter end is worfe with them ' than the beginning. For it had been bet' ter for them not to have known the way ' of righteoufnefs,...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." On this account the apoftles urge their fellow-chriftians to conftancy in the profeflion of the gofpel,... | |
 | 1788 - 598 pages
...therein, and overcome, the latter end is worfe with them than the >eginning. 21 For it had been better "or them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than...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... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1789 - 364 pages
...JJ*" 1 ' '• 27' For it haJ b.tn tetter far thefe not to have knc'uin tl:e way of" rigbteoufiiffs, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered uito them *. But, alas! alas! thefe art twice dead, plucked up ly the roots, f and, therefore, fit... | |
 | Andronicus - 1790 - 350 pages
...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 the Way of Rightepufnefs, than after they have known it, ti 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. 
