...in his sins, his apostasy from the truth would be an aggravation of his guift and punishment : " for if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...entangled therein and overcome ; the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have Jcnown the way of righteousness,...

...seduce him again into those vices from which he was almost reformed ; so that, after he had almost escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, he was again entangled therein, and overcome ; and the latter end with him was worse than the beginning....

...seduce him again into those vices from which he was almost reformed ; so that, after he had almost escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, he was again entangled therein, and overcome ; and the latter end with him was worse than the beginning....

...make it so. When this is the case, as Peter says, he abandons his profession and reformation ; for if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour oo Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the latter end...

...life. 'For what shall it avail as,' saith St. Peter, ' to be escaped and delivered from the iillhiuoss of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, if we be entangled again therewith, and be overcome again ? Certeiuly it had been better,' saith he,...

...pollutions of the world, may yet fall back into those pollutions, and perish everlastingly. For thus sakh the Apostle Peter, "If after they have escaped the...the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ," the only possible way of escaping them,) " they are intangled again• therein and overcome, the latter...

...God in his wrath, harden a pillar of salt ; tor if, after they h:ive escaped tlic; pwlIntions of tlie world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour...they are again, entangled therein, and overcome, the hitter end is worse with them than the beginning ; fin it bad been better for them not to have known...

...that 1 have been preserved from blots in my outward profession. It was but last year, after having escaped the pollutions" of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, that i had \\tiJ nigh been ent-angled therein, and overcome. 1 was enticed from the cure of souls into...

...he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die. (1) If they that had escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, are again entangled therein and overcome; the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For...

...through the lufts of the flefh, " through much wantonnefs g ?" Can they, after they " have efcaped the pollutions of the " world through the knowledge of the Lord " and Saviour Jefus Chrift, be again entangled " therein and overcome 1 '?" Can they who have once " known the way...