 | David Savile - 1810 - 440 pages
...than the be" ginning ; for it had been better for them " not to have known the way of righteous" ness, than after they have known it, to " turn from the holy commandment deli" vered unto them ; but it is happened un*' to them according to the true proverb, — " The dog... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | Richard Mant - 1813 - 440 pages
...warning of the Apostle, that " 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'." Surely, my beloved brethren, it were more prudent to suffer ourselves to be persuaded of this in time,... | |
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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... 
