 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 596 páginas
...in error :" upon which the Apostle remarks, " It had been better for them not to have known the way1 of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them."^ II. It will be proper for me now to consider an objection, which may possibly be urged... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1809 - 414 páginas
...heaven." The Apostle Peter, to guard christians against apostasy, holds up the same warning — " It had been better for them not to have known the way of...turn from the holy commandment delivered to them." Remarkable are the words of our Saviour to his Apostles, when he sent them forth to preach the kingdom... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 578 páginas
...apostacy of these elevated break-neck professors, see that most dreadful place, 2 Pet. ii. 21. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of...known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. Is not the wrath of God certainly to be revealed agamst all those, who know not God, and... | |
 | John Newton - 1809 - 312 páginas
...unto death, to restore them to their right minds, and to recover them to himself. Otherwise, " it had been better for them not to have known " the way of...it, to turn from the holy commandment, " delivered unto them." OMICRONON DREAMING. DEAR. MADAM, I THANK you for your obliging letter, and would be thankful... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 páginas
...immediately before w or after these x, or other helps to prevent or remedy ning. Ver. 21. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of...known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. Ver. 22. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The~dog is turned to... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1810 - 272 páginas
...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...known 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... | |
 | 1810 - 480 páginas
...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...known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it has happened unto them according to the true proverb, "The dog is turned to his own... | |
 | Theophilus Lindsey - 1810 - 544 páginas
...amended and reformed by them. " Better (says an apostle, 2 Pet. ii. 21.) had it been for some not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they...turn from the holy commandment delivered to them." The great aim and business of the Gospel is, by teaching more worthy and exalted sentiments of the... | |
 | David Savile - 1810 - 440 páginas
...than the be" ginning ; for it had been better for them " not to have known the way of righteous" ness, than after they have known it, to " turn from the holy commandment deli" vered unto them ; but it is happened un*' to them according to the true proverb, — " The dog... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 460 páginas
...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 the way of...known it, to 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... | |
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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... 
