 | 1811 - 300 sider
...frankly acknowledge^ " God is not the God ot'the dead, but of the living ;" and that, " if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through...latter end is worse with them than the beginning." Leaving these lukewarm, formal, Laodicean professors to the mercy of God, I subscribe myself, Sir,... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 460 sider
...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... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 408 sider
...after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour oo Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and...beginning; " For it had been better for them not to know the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - 1812 - 378 sider
...had escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, are again entangled therein and overcome; the latter...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 Wesley - 1812 - 462 sider
...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 known...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." That the " knowledge of the way of righteousness," which they had attained, was an inward, experimental... | |
 | John Jones - 1812 - 1054 sider
...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... | |
 | 1806 - 662 sider
...entangled therein, and overcome, the hitter end is worse with them than the beginning ; fin it bad been better for them not to have known the way of...than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy coiniinindiftOnt ; but it has happened to them according to thetrue proverb: " The dog is turned to... | |
 | Richard Mant - 1813 - 440 sider
...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,... | |
 | Ethan Smith - 1814 - 598 sider
...if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and...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:... | |
 | William Jay - 1814 - 552 sider
...into the world, and are more distinguished by its vices and follies than before. " For if after they have escaped the pollutions *.* of the world, through..." therein, and overcome ; the latter end is worse than " the beginning." Mark the falls of good men themselves, who have been " recovered from the snare... | |
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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... 
