 | Missions - 1796 - 612 pages
...despite unto the spirit of grace ?" Ch. x. 26, 27, 28, 29. "Peter also describes the same characters : " For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than . after they have... | |
 | George Haggitt - 1796 - 408 pages
...ini" quity, that we have committed, we shall " die." St. Peter is very express on this head: — " If, after they have escaped the " pollutions of the...latter end is " worse with them than the beginning." We must, therefore, continue our exertions to the end of our course, we must fight the good fight to... | |
 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 448 pages
...spirit and in truth. 2. There must be continuance in well-doing. It is said, 2 Pet. ii. 20, 21, 22, " If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...the servants of 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...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again... | |
 | 1804 - 438 pages
...the servants of 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...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 392 '21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they... | |
 | Timothy Kenrick - Bible - 1807 - 684 pages
...them, they become stronger and more inveterate than before. Peter has expressed the same sentiment; " for if, after they have escaped the pollutions of...latter end is worse with them than the beginning." 2 Peter, ih 20. 46. While he yet talked to the people, behold his mother and his brethren stood without,... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...and said unto thee, live. Zeph. iii. 1. Woe to the city that is filthy and polluted. 2 Pet. ii. 20. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. See the wicked pollute God's name. Isa. xx. 9. — xlviii. 11. Jer.xxxiv. 16. Ezek.xiii. 19. — xxxix.r.Mal.... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 304 pages
...the servants of corruption : for, of whom a man is overcome, of the same he is brought in bondage. For, if, after they have escaped the pollutions of...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 596 pages
...the servants of corruption : for, of whom a man is overcome, of the same he is brought in bondage. For, if, after they have escaped the pollutions of...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
