 | Andronicus - 1790 - 350 pages
...again entangled therein, and overcome ; the latter End is worfe with them than the Beginning : for it had been better for them not to have known the Way of Rightepufnefs, than after they have known it, ti turn from, the holy Commandment delivered unto them.... | |
 | Richard Watson - Theology - 1791 - 500 pages
...rift, a re again ¡mangled therein,and overcome ; thelatterEndisworfs with them than the Beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the...they have known it to turn from the holy Commandment, [the Gofpel] delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true Proverb ; The... | |
 | Richard Watson - Theology - 1791 - 506 pages
...is worfe with them than the Beginning, .tor it had beeu better for tnem not to have known the Way ot Righteoufnefs, than after they have known it to turn from the holy Commandment, [the Gofpel] delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true Proverb; The Dog... | |
 | Missions - 1796 - 612 pages
...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 the way of righteousness, than . after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1794 - 356 pages
...again entangled therein, and overcome; the *' latter end is worfe with them than the beginning. " For it had been better for them not to have " known the...after " they have known it, to turn from the holy com*' mandment delivered unto them." On this account the apoflles urge their fellowchriftians to conftancy... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1794 - 312 pages
...the mount. ]Matt. iv. 33. --It had been better for them not tw Lave known the way of rightesufntfn than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them, 2 Pet. ii. 21. ---By faith Noah moved with fear prtpared an ark, &c, [ie obeyed] by t-he which he,... | |
 | Sir Adam Gordon - Sermons, English - 1795 - 440 pages
...and overcome, the latter end of Juch being worfe 'with them than the beginning ; for it would have been better for them not to have known the way of...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. For by fo doing they come under the defcription of the proverb, 'The dog is turned to his vomit again,... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1796 - 530 pages
...reproach is caft upon God ? 5. Inftability in .the faith is worfe than profanenefs» 2 Pet. ii. 21, 22. " It had been better for them, not to have known the...have known it, to turn from the holy commandment." Inftability being the porch of api ftacy, where this is total, it is worfe than profanity ; for it... | |
 | John Flavel - 1799 - 626 pages
...• Peter would not have faid of thofe finners againft light, as he doth, ; 2 Pet. ii. 2 r. " that it had been better for them not to have known " the way of righteoumefs." Nor would Christ have told the inf habitants of Chorazin or Bethfaida, that it fhould... | |
 | Henry Kett - Bible - 1801 - 442 pages
...are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worfe with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of ri^hteoufnefs, th:m after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.... | |
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For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 
