 | John Bevans - 1810 - 134 pages
...when I have preached to others, 'I myself should be a cast-away. 2 Peter ii. 20. For if after (hey have escaped the pollutions of the world, through...been better for them not to have known the -way of righteousness, than after they have known !•:, io turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 pages
...let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants, and for handmaids. 2 Pet. ii. 20. For if after they have escaped the pollutions...overcome ; the latter end is worse with them than the benuiP 3 ning. 4. From circumstances of time r and place ": if on the Lord's day ', or other times... | |
 | George Pretyman - 1811 - 614 pages
...died in his sins, his apostasy from the truth would be an aggravation of his guift and punishment : " for if, after they have escaped the pollutions of...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have Jcnown the way of righteousness, than after they have known... | |
 | 1811 - 300 pages
...mistake, and frankly acknowledge^ " God is not the God ot'the dead, but of the living ;" and that, " if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,...latter end is worse with them than the beginning." Leaving these lukewarm, formal, Laodicean professors to the mercy of God, I subscribe myself, Sir,... | |
 | Nathan Bangs - 1815 - 336 pages
...wicked, it is said they have not faith, and their consciences are defiled. — 2 Pet. ii. 20, 21. " If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they had known.it,... | |
 | Daniel Whitby - 1816 - 488 pages
...much wantonness, (or to lasciviousness) those who were clean escaped from them that live in error: For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the...the latter end is worse with them than the beginning : For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have... | |
 | sir George Pretyman Tomline (bart, bp. of Winchester.) - 1817 - 628 pages
...died in his sins, his apostasy from the truth would be an aggravation of his guilt and punishment : " For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known... | |
 | John Kenrick - 1817 - 650 pages
...them liberty, while they are themselves the slaves of corruption. " For," concludes the apostle, " if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. Por it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, (the doctrine of Christ,)... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - 1818 - 432 pages
...cursed children ; which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray." And further he says of them ; "If after they have escaped the pollutions of the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1831 - 516 pages
...brought to the knowledge of the truth, have thoughtlessly gone back to the sinful courses of the world: "For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of...latter end is worse with them than the beginning: For it had been better they had not known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it,... | |
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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. 
