 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...  A System of Revealed Religion ... - Page 1731819Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Platts - 1827 - 572 pages
...for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.18 20 For m if after they have n escaped the pollutions of the world ° through the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had been p better for them not to have known the qway of righteousness, than, after they... | |
 | John Wesley - 1827 - 548 pages
...entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning." 2 Pet. ii. 2U, 21. " For it had been better for them, not to have known...it, to 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 Riland - 1828 - 326 pages
...merchandize of you. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption. For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of...latter end is worse with them than the beginning." While desperate wickedness was thus intruding itself into the very fold of Christ, and confounding... | |
 | John Townsend - 1828 - 318 pages
...having loved this present world." The apostle Peter declares, that the latter end of such is worse than the beginning, — " For it had been better for...it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." 2 Peter ii. 21. Such warnings should" stimulate us to a rigid observance of closet, family,... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1828 - 424 pages
...J.esus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse with them tiha,n the beginning. For it had been better for them not...it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it i» happened unto them according to the true proverb: The dog is turned to his own vomit... | |
 | Jacobus Arminius - 1828 - 778 pages
...me nothing/' (1 Cor. xiii, 2.) " Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.T> (1 Cor. viii, 1.) " For it had been better for them not to have known...it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." (2 Peter ii, 21.) SECONDLY. — Neither can this affirmation be truly made in every case, —... | |
 | 1828 - 558 pages
...I praise you, that you keep the ordinances, as! leathern with you 4jr tradition." 2 Peter ii. 21, " For it had been better for them not to have known...it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them by tradition.- It seems from this, that it is more dangerous to depart from tradition, than from... | |
 | 1829 - 412 pages
...world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning...it to 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... | |
 | James Nourse - 1829 - 292 pages
...whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. For if after they have escaped the 20 pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the...with them than the beginning. For it had been better 21 for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it to turn from... | |
 | 1829 - 448 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...again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter * » * 21 For it had been better for :hem not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they... | |
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