 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 588 pages
...against the doctrine of the saints' perseverance, is taken from 2 Pet. ii. 20 — 22. For if after thei; have escaped the pollutions of the world, through...entangled therein, and overcome ; the latter end is ivorse with them than the beginning; and they are said in the following verse, to turn from the holy... | |
 | John Mannock - 1815 - 352 pages
...more sacrifice for sins, but a certain terrible expectation of judgment. Heb. x. 26. and St. Peter, It had been better for them not to have known the...they have known it to turn from the holy commandment which was given them. 2. Peter, ii. 21. King Pharoah sinned grievously herein, when so often admonished... | |
 | 1815 - 294 pages
...thfc world through the knowledge of the Lord aw! Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again C!itIin'iliid therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with...For it had been better for them not to have known tiie way of righteousness, than, afrer th*y have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered... | |
 | Daniel Whitby - 1816 - 488 pages
...much wantonness, (or to lasciviousness) those who were clean escaped from them that live in error: For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it is happened to them according to the true proverb, — the dog is turned to his own... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1816 - 482 pages
...impediment in it's way. For of persons so circumstanced the Apostle may be understood, where he says, " if after they have " escaped the pollutions of the...they are again " entangled therein and overcome;" or, as it may be expressed, in immediate reference to our present subject ; if, after having been sanctified... | |
 | sir George Pretyman Tomline (bart, bp. of Winchester.) - 1817 - 644 pages
...in his sins, his apostasy from the truth would be an aggravation of his guilt and punishment : " For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them (d).n St. Paul tells the Romans and Galatians, that they have been justified ; and as a means to obtain... | |
 | John Kenrick - 1817 - 650 pages
...them liberty, while they are themselves the slaves of corruption. " For," concludes the apostle, " if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. Por it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, (the doctrine of Christ,)... | |
 | Legh Richmond - 1817 - 806 pages
...them. For then had his labour been in vain, and they had received the word to their own damnation. For it had been better for them not to have known...they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment given unto them. The devil is the tempter. His strength and practice is not always by force of arms,... | |
 | 1817 - 370 pages
...yet fall hack info those pollutions, and perish everlastingly. For thus saith the apostle Peter, ' If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,...the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (the only possible way of escaping them) they are again entangled therein and overcome ; the latter... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - 1818 - 432 pages
...cursed children ; which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray." And further he says of them ; "If after they have escaped the pollutions of the...than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandments delivered unto them." It is evident that those of whom the Apostle spake, had been in... | |
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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... 
