 | Isaac Watts - 1812 - 630 pages
...It had been better for them, as St. Paul expresses it, not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them ; 2 Pet. ii. 21. Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1812 - 226 pages
...either side of the question as he finds occasion:" but this I to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." Sermons, p. 66. suy, he appears to me to feel the force of some truths -which do not well comport with... | |
 | rev. Christopher Brown - 1812 - 508 pages
...begin, ning. O. Is it good for them to have known GOD, and the means of falvation ? A. It is not : It had been better for them, not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than to turn from ir, ver. 21. O. By what doth he fitly exprefs them ? A.^By the dog returning to eat what... | |
 | John Owen - 1813 - 644 pages
...apostle determines this matter, " It had been better for men not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them," 2 Peter ii. 21. Again, This unbelief in rejecting the gospel, is either notional and practical, or... | |
 | John Wesley - 1812 - 462 pages
...therein .and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the jbegipiting," 2 Pet. ii. 20, 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."... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - 1812 - 378 pages
...Christ, 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.... | |
 | John Jones - 1812 - 1054 pages
...language holds them forth as "persons who once believed in o Christ, and even conformed to his gospel. " 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.... | |
 | 1813 - 432 pages
...them than the heginning. For it had heen hetter for them not to have known the way of righteousuess, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." — You must lay your accounts with some such characters from amongst you, "men of corrupt minds, who... | |
 | Charles Grandison Finney - 2003 - 1234 pages
...Jesus Christ, they are entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse 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.... | |
 | Ben Lunis - 2003 - 590 pages
...than the beginning. For it would have 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 to them. (II Peter 2:20, 21) The role of evangelist Background Dowgiewicz notes that it is apparent... | |
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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. 
