 | Samuel Stennett - Baptists - 1824 - 506 pages
...of that man is worse than the first a.' To the same purpose says the apostle Peter, ' If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through...entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than... | |
 | John Newton, Richard Cecil - Theology - 1824 - 706 pages
...near unto death, to restore them to their right minds, and to recover them to himself. Otherwise, " it had been " better for them not to have known the...from the holy commandment delivered unto " them." OMICRON. ON DREAMING. Dear Madam; I THANK you for your obliging letter, and would be thankful to the... | |
 | Bible - 1824 - 462 pages
...corruption : for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the...again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have... | |
 | Christian literature, English - 1847 - 390 pages
...out of Sodom, and yet become again entangled by its snares. In such is fulfilled that Scripture, " It had been better for them not to have known the...have known it, to turn from the holy commandment." Again, we are here instructed that not to go all lengths in obeying the Divine commandment is wholly... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 500 pages
...Christ, they are again entangled therein, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning ; and that it had been better for them not to have known the...than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandments, delivered to them.' Of this his own memory might have given him peculiar feelings. St.... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 1044 pages
...Christ, they are again entangled therein, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning ; and that it had been better for them not to have known the...than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandments, delivered to them.' Of Uiis his own memory might have given him peculiar feelings. St.... | |
 | John Newton, Richard Cecil - Theology - 1824 - 634 pages
...them. They will not only lose the prize, but will receive a heavy and aggravated doom. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of...known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. If you were forced to run for your lives, you would be very thoughtful about the event. But... | |
 | Jesse Fonda - Baptism - 1824 - 382 pages
...SO— SS? escaped the pollutions of the world, through the know>edge of the Lord and Saviour Jesu. Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome,...with them than the beginning! For it had been better tor them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1825 - 506 pages
...and of smaller hope : because he is " twice dead and plucked up by the rootd." " For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through...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... | |
 | Hugh McNeile - Sermons, English - 1825 - 472 pages
...? Hear what the Apostle Peter says, and let the awful words sink into your hearts. " If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the...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 vomit again,... | |
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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... 
