 | John Fletcher - 1775 - 500 pages
...Seek ye poverty of fpirit, and the holinefs defcribed in the fermon on the mount.] Mat. vi, 33. — 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.... | |
 | John Wesley - 1786 - 738 pages
...to whom the gofpel is revealed may do, and doth it not,*Jhall be beaten wilh many Jlripcs ; and fo it had been better for them not to have known the way of life, or to have had no covenant of grace tendered to them. For if they be not able by the grace which... | |
 | 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 - 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 Way of Righteoufnefs, than after they have known it to turn from the holy Commandment, [the Gofpel] delivered... | |
 | 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 way of righteoufnefs, than after " they have known it, to turn from the holy com*' mandment delivered unto... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 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 way of righteoufnefs, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment." Inftability being... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Daniel Whitby - 1801 - 436 pages
...that there remain^ по more facrißce for their ßn ; that they draw back to perdition ; and that it had been better for them not to have known the way of life, than afterwards to depart from the holy commandment. Our Lord tells his difciples, that (a) if... | |
 | Daniel Whitby - 1801 - 410 pages
...again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is tuorfe with them than the beginning ; for it had been better for them not to have known the way of righleoujnefs, than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. But... | |
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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. 
