 | Andrew Fuller - 1812 - 226 sidor
...either side of the question as he finds occasion:" but this I to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." Sermons, p. 66. suy, he appears to me to feel the force of some truths -which do not well... | |
 | John Wesley - 1812 - 462 sidor
...jbegipiting," 2 Pet. ii. 20, 21. " 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." That the " knowledge of the way of righteousness," which they had attained, was an inward,... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1812 - 630 sidor
...It had been better for them, as St. Paul expresses it, not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them ; 2 Pet. ii. 21. Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment... | |
 | John Jones - 1812 - 1054 sidor
...conformed to his gospel. " 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. But ife hath happened to them, according to the true proverb, The dog returns to his own... | |
 | John Owen - 1813 - 644 sidor
...apostle determines this matter, " It had been better for men not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them," 2 Peter ii. 21. Again, This unbelief in rejecting the gospel, is either notional and practical,... | |
 | 1813 - 432 sidor
...them than the heginning. For it had heen hetter for them not to have known the way of righteousuess, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." — You must lay your accounts with some such characters from amongst you, "men of corrupt... | |
 | 1813 - 580 sidor
...the beginning. Ver. 21. For it had been better for them not to have Jcnown the way of righteousness, than, after they have 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... | |
 | Richard Mant - 1813 - 440 sidor
...warning of the Apostle, that " 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'." Surely, my beloved brethren, it were more prudent to suffer ourselves to be persuaded... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 498 sidor
...resistance. Hear St. Peter, // had been better for them not to have known Uie way of righteousness, than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment, 2 Epist. ii. 21. The case of those who commit the unpardonable sin, attests the same. Hear these thundering... | |
 | Ethan Smith - 1814 - 598 sidor
...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 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own... | |
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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... 
