 | Thomas Boston - 1802 - 422 pages
...Peter, ii. 21. " For it had been better for them, not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." This writes death upon many as none of his. — Such as, (r.) Thofe whofe great bufinefs... | |
 | Robert Barclay - 1803 - 176 pages
...entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worfe with them than the be ginning : 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 ,i« turned to his... | |
 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 454 pages
...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... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...than the beginning. 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. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pages
...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. If we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no... | |
 | 1804 - 438 pages
...the beginning. 392 '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. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his... | |
 | Josiah Spalding - Universalism - 1805 - 376 pages
...tie apofllc Peter fays, to have its import without end : ' I r had been better for them * not to bave known the way of righteoufnefs, than, after they have 'known it, to turn from the holy commandrnen' delivered unto them.' And Dr. H. fays that there will be, amone the redeemed in heaven,... | |
 | Henry Kett - Antichrist - 1805 - 448 pages
...them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of rightetufnefs, •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, proverb, The dog is turned... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1806 - 508 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...known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. Heb 6. 4. r Ifai. 11. 11, 13. And in that day did the Lord God of hofts call to weeping... | |
 | 1807 - 592 pages
...it is tremendously true* :" — and better will it be " not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto themf." 4 It may be, however, that we only waste our time, in pressing such. considerations as... | |
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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... 
