 | Legh Richmond - Suffering - 1817 - 806 pages
...to their own damnation. 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 given unto them. The devil is the tempter. His strength and practice is not always by force of arms,... | |
 | Edward Cooper - Sermons, English - 1818 - 362 pages
...been better for them (says St. Peter of such characters) not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." * And St. Jude declares of such, that to them is " reserved th« * 2 Pet. ii. 21. " blackness... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 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 themk. For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1831 - 516 pages
...worse with them than the beginning: For it had been better they had not known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." O, my beloved sister, may this never be your sad case! "My heart's desire and prayer to... | |
 | Theology - 1823 - 314 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." Christ's coming '^to set a man at vai iance against his father, and the daughter against... | |
 | John Wesley, George Story - Christianity - 1806
...ftrong colours by the Holy Ghofl. " If any man draw back, my foul fhall have no pleafure in him." It had been better for them not to have known the way of...known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." By fo doing they are difpleafing to God, and offenfive to men. The Holy Spirit is grieved,... | |
 | Church of England articles - 1821 - 234 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 proverh, The dog has turned to his own... | |
 | Willis Harris - Methodist Church - 1821 - 344 pages
...has come into the world." " For it were better for them not to have known the ways of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." The faculties of our minds were given us to be employed in seeking to find out God, not... | |
 | 1821 - 614 pages
...remembering these texts, " For it bad been better for thara not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered uato them." — " To whom much is given, of him much will be required." You have beau taught the principles... | |
 | John Newton - 1821 - 656 pages
...to himself. Otherwise, " 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. " OMICRON. ON DREAMING. Dear Madam, T THANK you for your obliging letter, and -*- would... | |
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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... 
