 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1812 - 462 pages
...entangled therein .and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the jbegipiting," 2 Pet. ii. 20, 21. " For it had been better for them, not to have...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." That the " knowledge of the way of righteousness," which they had attained, was an inward, experimental... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1812 - 378 pages
...Christ, 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. (r) As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in hiin ; holding faith and a good... | |
 | John Jones - 1812 - 1054 pages
...language holds them forth as "persons who once believed in o Christ, and even conformed to his gospel. " It had been better for them not to have known the...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... | |
 | Richard Mant - Apologetics - 1813 - 440 pages
...but liereafter they will be painfully convinced of the truth of the warning of the Apostle, that " it had been better for them not to have known the...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,... | |
 | 1814 - 570 pages
...the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overeome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning....righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy'command-, ment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them aeeording to the true proverb,... | |
 | Ethan Smith - Antichrist - 1814 - 598 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:... | |
 | Daniel Whitby - Arminianism - 1816 - 488 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...known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it is happened to them according to the true proverb, — the dog is turned to his own... | |
 | sir George Pretyman Tomline (bart, bp. of Winchester.) - 1817 - 628 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 (d)" St. Paul tells the Romans and Galatians, that they have been justified ; and as a means to obtain... | |
 | Legh Richmond - Suffering - 1817 - 806 pages
...them. For then had his labour been in vain, and they had received the word to their own damnation. For it had been better for them not to have known...they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment given unto them. The devil is the tempter. His strength and practice is not always by force of arms,... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 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...it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto themp. Wherefore, look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that... | |
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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... 
