 | George Fox - Society of Friends - 1831 - 518 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, &c. the dog is turned to his own vomit again, and the sow that was washed, to the... | |
 | Job Scott - Society of Friends - 1831 - 606 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...have known it, to turn from the holy commandment." Thus earnestly laboured this primitive disciple of Jesus, against this beguiling doctrine ; clearly... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...they are again entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. y of fools sha But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog « turned to his own vomit again... | |
 | James Slade - 1832 - 564 pages
...and keep it not, will be a sad and dreadful reproach, will bring down the severest condemnation : " For it had been better for them not to have known...turn from the holy' commandment delivered unto them." 2 Pet. ii. 21. But we are by nature weak and corrupt, and set against the holy word of God ; and therefore... | |
 | American Doctrinal Tract Society - 1832 - 322 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." This passage, it will be remarked, is entirely hypothetical ; but I do not insist on this, because... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 664 pages
...overcome (a case that too frequently occurs), 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 them8." And is there one in such an unhappy state as this? 0 Jude ver. 24. * Heb. vii. 25. y Isai.... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 612 pages
...own waysh?" Follow them also into the eternal world ; and there also you will find that verified, " It had been better for them not to have known the...known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them1." They " have been heaping up treasures indeed for the last days ;" but they are found to... | |
 | Samuel Hanson Cox - Society of Friends - 1833 - 710 pages
...account for the apathy or the antipathy of millions toward the gospel. "Awn THIS is THE CONDEMNATION!" "For it had been better for them not to have known...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." THE GRAND ERROR. Sint castae delieiae meae, scripturae tuae ; ncc fallur in eii, nee fallara ci eis.... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1833 - 604 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. THAT persons inspired with the love of God should endeavour to bring their fellow-creatures to the... | |
 | Francis Bragge - Theology - 1833 - 334 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... | |
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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... 
