 | 1796 - 612 pagine
...unto the spirit of grace ?" Ch. x. 26, 27, 28, 29. "Peter also describes the same characters : " For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than . after they have... | |
 | George Haggitt - 1796 - 408 pagine
...ini" quity, that we have committed, we shall " die." St. Peter is very express on this head: — " If, after they have escaped the " pollutions of the...latter end is " worse with them than the beginning." We must, therefore, continue our exertions to the end of our course, we must fight the good fight to... | |
 | John Smalley - 1803 - 448 pagine
...spirit and in truth. 2. There must be continuance in well-doing. It is said, 2 Pet. ii. 20, 21, 22, " If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known... | |
 | 1804 - 438 pagine
...servants of corruption : for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 392 '21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pagine
...servants of corruption : for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 20 For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pagine
...classes, we may turn to those remarkable expressions of St. Peter and St. Paul :.... " If, after having escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For, it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pagine
...and said unto thee, live. Zeph. iii. 1. Woe to the city that is filthy and polluted. 2 Pet. ii. 20. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. See the wicked pollute God's name. Isa. xx. 9. — xlviii. 11. Jer.xxxiv. 16. Ezek.xiii. 19. — xxxix.r.Mal.... | |
 | Timothy Kenrick - 1807 - 684 pagine
...they become stronger and more inveterate than before. Peter has expressed the same sentiment; " for if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning." 2 Peter, ih 20. 46. While he yet talked to the people, behold his mother and his brethren stood without,... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 304 pagine
...servants of corruption : for, of whom a man is overcome, of the same he is brought in bondage. For, if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 592 pagine
...servants of corruption : for, of whom a man is overcome, of the same he is brought in bondage. For, if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known... | |
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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. 
