 | John Fletcher - 1774 - 212 pages
...knowledge of our Saviour, [ie 1 for believers] ' not to have known the way of ' righteoufnefs? than after they have known it, to ' 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
...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. 2 Pet. ii. zi. — By faith Noah moved with fear PREPARED AN ARK &c, [ie obeyed] by the which he, &c.... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1782 - 478 pages
...beginning. For it had been bet' ter for them not to have known the way ' of righteoufnefs, than after they have ' known it, to 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
...>eginning. 21 For it had been better "or them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than after they have known. it, to 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... | |
 | 1796 - 612 pages
...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. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again;... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1794 - 312 pages
...]Matt. iv. 33. --It had been better for them not tw Lave known the way of rightesufntfn than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them, 2 Pet. ii. 21. ---By faith Noah moved with fear prtpared an ark, &c, [ie obeyed] by t-he which he,... | |
 | Sir Adam Gordon - 1795 - 440 pages
...beginning ; for 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 unto them. For by fo doing they come under the defcription of the proverb, 'The dog is turned to his vomit again,... | |
 | John Flavel - 1799 - 626 pages
...beginning. For it " had been better for them not to have known the way of righte" oufnds, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy " commandment delivered unto them." Double meafures of wrath ieera to be prepared for them that die this double death. Inf. j. If this... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1801 - 442 pages
...the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of ri^hteoufnefs, th:m after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happtned unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1802 - 422 pages
...21. " For it had been better for them, not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." This writes death upon many as none of his. — Such as, (r.) Thofe whofe great bufinefs in the world... | |
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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. 
