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... The Works ... - Page 236de John Fletcher - 1794Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 460 pages
...heard a voice saying, " 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," 2 Pet. ii. 21. This answer cut me to the very quick, and brought me even to the gates of death ; for I was now fully... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 408 pages
...with them than the beginning; " For it had been better for them not to know the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." Our Lord calls this a withering away; Peter terms it a turning away from a knowledge and reformation... | |
| 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 ungodly sinners... | |
| 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 practical... | |
| John Jones - 1812 - 1054 pages
...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. But ife hath happened to them, according to the true proverb, The dog returns to his own vom|t, and... | |
| 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... | |
| John Wesley - 1812 - 462 pages
...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." That the " knowledge of the way of righteousness," which they had attained, was an inward, experimental... | |
| Thomas Sherlock (bp. of London.) - 1812 - 464 pages
...Jlumber, ver. 3 ; that it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than, /after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them, ver. 21. In the third and laft chapter he confiders the fcoffers, and their irreligious infult,... | |
| 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... | |
| 1813 - 580 pages
...the beginning. Ver. 21. For it had been better for them not to have Jcnown the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. Ver. 22. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit... | |
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