 | Nathanael Torriano (the elder.) - 1757 - 228 pages
...than the 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... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1757 - 498 pages
...to do it ; " how much better had it * been for them not to have known the way of ** 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 of the true GOD and his will, " we... | |
 | Assembly of divines confess. and catech - 1765 - 626 pages
...than the 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
...them than 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
...can we think 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 - 212 pages
...the 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 - 1774 - 530 pages
...thro' the 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... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1775 - 500 pages
...the mount.] 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
...than the 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
...than the >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... | |
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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... 
