 | Thomas Boston - 1802 - 422 pages
...Peter, ii. 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... | |
 | N. NISBETT - 1802 - 314 pages
...ver. 3. — that it would have 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 to '' them. ver. 21. In the third and last chapter, he considers " the scoffers, and their irreligious... | |
 | Robert Barclay - 1803 - 176 pages
...than the be ginning : 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. But it is happened unto them, according to the true proverb, The dog ,i« turned to his own vomit again,... | |
 | John Smalley - 1803 - 454 pages
...them than the 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... | |
 | 1804 - 438 pages
...the beginning. 392 '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. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again;... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...than the beginning. 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. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pages
...them than the 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. If we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1805 - 448 pages
...them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of rightetufnefs, •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, proverb, The dog is turned to his own... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1806 - 508 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. Heb 6. 4. r Ifai. 11. 11, 13. And in that day did the Lord God of hofts call to weeping and to mourning,... | |
 | 1807 - 592 pages
...it is tremendously true* :" — and better will it be " not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto themf." 4 It may be, however, that we only waste our time, in pressing such. considerations as these,... | |
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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... 
