 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 592 pages
...wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error :" upon which the Apostle remarks, " It had been better for them not to have known the...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. "I1 II. It will be proper for me now to consider an objection, which may possibly be urged against... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 304 pages
...wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error :" upon which the Apostle remarks, " It had been better for them not to have known the...it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them."f II. It will be proper for me now to consider an objection, which may possibly be urged against... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 578 pages
...folly and apostacy of these elevated break-neck professors, see that most dreadful place, 2 Pet. ii. 21. For it had been better for them not to have known...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. Is not the wrath of God certainly to be revealed agamst all those, who know not God, and obey not the... | |
 | John Newton - Theology - 1809 - 312 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." OMICRONON DREAMING. DEAR. MADAM, I THANK you for your obliging letter, and would be thankful to the... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1809 - 414 pages
...from heaven." The Apostle Peter, to guard christians against apostasy, holds up the same warning — " It had been better for them not to have known the...known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them." Remarkable are the words of our Saviour to his Apostles, when he sent them forth to preach... | |
 | John Bevans - Religious education of children - 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...-way of righteousness, than after they have known !•:, io turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. §. IV. 66th Q. — How does a Christian... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...worship u ; or immediately before w or after these x, or other helps to prevent or remedy ning. Ver. 21. For it had been better for them not to have known...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... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - Theology, Doctrinal - 1810 - 272 pages
...they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known...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... | |
 | Christian biography - 1810 - 480 pages
...they are again entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it has happened unto them according to the true proverb, "The dog is turned to his own vomit again;... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 460 pages
...not forget thy commandments," Psalm cxix. 1?6. In answer to this, I thought I heard a voice saying, " For it had been better for them not to have known...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... | |
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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... 
