 | Francis Fox - 1748 - 598 pages
...beginning. 21. For. it had been s 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. 22. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The u dog is turned to his own vomit... | |
 | Jeremiah Seed - 1750 - 336 pages
...indeed, but that it had 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. Let their Danger fuggeft to us the Means of our own Security : And let us not entertain a mean Opinion... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1757 - 498 pages
...righteoufnefs, than after they have known it, to " turn from the holy commandment delivered un** to them !" If we had been born, and brought up in ignorance...will aggravate our condemnation beyond meafure, that v/e had the knowledge of falvation fo clearly revealed to us. Our duty lies plainly before us, we know... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1757 - 482 pages
...reafon, " for it had 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." And St. John calls this fin of apoftafy, the " fin unto " death ;" and though he do not forbid Chriftians... | |
 | John Conybeare - 1757 - 554 pages
...Beginning; for it had heen hetter 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. [2 Pet. ii. ao, »'•] To the WEAK I would addrefs myfelf, in order to ftrengthen and confirm them.... | |
 | Nathanael Torriano (the elder.) - 1757 - 228 pages
...Beginning, becaufe it had 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 ; in as much as by fo doing they reject the Covenant of Grace and Mercy in Chrift. But, as the former... | |
 | Assembly of divines confess. and catech - 1765 - 626 pages
...beginning, v. 21. For it had 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. v. 22. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit... | |
 | John Flavel - 1770 - 512 pages
...the beginning. For it had 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." Double meafures of wrath feem to be prepared for them that die this double death. Infer. 5. If this... | |
 | Jeremiah Seed - 1770 - 546 pages
...indeed, but that it had been better for them not to have known the way of Rigbteoufaefs, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy Commandment delivered unto them. Let their Danger fuggeft to us the Means of our own Security : And let us hot entertain a mean Opinion... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1774 - 530 pages
...kitmuledge of eur Saviour, '[ie 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 bringech not forth good fruit, is cut down, and call into the_/fo. — Every branch... | |
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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. 
