 | John Fletcher - 1791 - 468 strani
...acknowledge, " God is not the God of the dead, but of the living;" and that, " if after they have efeaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the• Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift,, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end: is worle with them than... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1791 - 506 strani
...them than the Beginning, .tor it had beeu better for tnem not to have known the Way ot Righteoufnefs, than after they have known it to turn from the holy Commandment, [the Gofpel] delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true Proverb; The Dog... | |
 | 1796 - 612 strani
...unto the spirit of grace ?" Ch. x. 26, 27, 28, 29. "Peter also describes the same characters : " For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,...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... | |
 | 1807 - 672 strani
...they have escaped the pollutions oT the world thro" the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour JesusChrist, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the...been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, aficr they have kuo\vn it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them."... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1794 - 356 strani
...Saviour Jefus Chrift, they *' are again entangled therein, and overcome; the *' latter end is worfe with 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 com*' mandment delivered unto... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1794 - 312 strani
...the mount. ]Matt. iv. 33. --It had been better for them not tw Lave known the way of rightesufntfn than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them, 2 Pet. ii. 21. ---By faith Noah moved with fear prtpared an ark, &c, [ie obeyed]... | |
 | Thomas Wilson - 1795 - 504 strani
...himfelf, will not retain God in their knowledge; if thofe that have been enlightened, and have efcaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Sa* John v 40. vicur viour Jefus Chrift; if they are again entangled therein, and are finally loft;... | |
 | Sir Adam Gordon - 1795 - 440 strani
...the beginning ; for 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 unto them. For by fo doing they come under the defcription of the proverb, 'The dog is turned... | |
 | George Haggitt - 1796 - 408 strani
...ini" quity, that we have committed, we shall " die." St. Peter is very express on this head: — " If, after they have escaped the " pollutions of the...latter end is " worse with them than the beginning." We must, therefore, continue our exertions to the end of our course, we must fight the good fight to... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1796 - 530 strani
...reproach is caft upon God ? 5. Inftability in .the faith is worfe than profanenefs» 2 Pet. ii. 21, 22. " 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." Inftability being... | |
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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... 
