 | Hosea Ballou - 1818 - 448 pages
...they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesua Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome...than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandments delivered unto them." 247 It is evident that those of whom the Apostl* spake, had been... | |
 | Edward Cooper - 1818 - 362 pages
...receive a greater damnation. " It had been better for them (says St. Peter of such characters) not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." * And St. Jude declares of such, that to them is " reserved th« * 2 Pet. ii. 21. " blackness of darkness... | |
 | 1819 - 488 pages
...admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such, is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto themk. For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift,... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1831 - 516 pages
...to the knowledge of the truth, have thoughtlessly gone back to the sinful courses of the world: "For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...with them than the beginning: For it had been better they had not known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment... | |
 | 1834 - 778 pages
...26—29.) St. Peter also has this observation, in his 2d Epistle, which is much to the same point : " If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...entangled therein and overcome : the latter end is worse than the beginning." And once more, in one of St. John's Epistles, we are told this truth : " There... | |
 | Hector Davies Morgan - 1819 - 442 pages
...Saviour Jesus " Christ, they are again entangled therein, " and overcome, the latter end is worse " than the beginning. For it had been " better for them...after they have " known it, to turn from the holy com** mandment delivered unto them b ." y 1 Cor. xv. 2. z Galat. iii. 4. iv. 20. a Hebrews vi. 4,5,6.... | |
 | 1823 - 314 pages
...if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord an.d Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." Christ's coming '^to set a man at vai iance against his father, and the daughter against her mother,... | |
 | Andrew Ramsay - 1821 - 500 pages
...character the Apostle Peter speaks in his 2d epistle, 2d chap, ver. 20 and 21, when he says : " For if " after they have escaped the pollutions " of the...from the " holy commandment delivered unto " them." Alas ! how melancholy is the ' reflection, that there should be in the world persons possessed of the... | |
 | Church of England articles - 1821 - 234 pages
...them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. 1 Pet. ii. 8. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it ia happened unto them according to the true proverh, The dog has turned to his own vomit again;... | |
 | Church of England articles - 1821 - 234 pages
...ii. 8. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord aud Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein,...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverh, The dog has turned to his own vomit again;... | |
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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... 
