 | Assembly of divines confess. and catech - 1765 - 626 pagine
...than the beginning, v. 21. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. v. 22. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to... | |
 | Jeremiah Seed - 1770 - 546 pagine
...can we think indeed, but that it had been better for them not to have known the way of Rigbteoufaefs, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy Commandment delivered unto them. Let their Danger fuggeft to us the Means of our own Security : And let us hot entertain... | |
 | John Flavel - 1770 - 512 pagine
...them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." Double meafures of wrath feem to be prepared for them that die this double death. Infer.... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1774 - 530 pagine
...thro' the kitmuledge of eur Saviour, '[ie for believers]' not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. — Every tree, that bringech not forth good fruit, is cut down, and call into the_/fo.... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1774 - 212 pagine
...the knowledge of our Saviour, [ie 1 for believers] ' not to have known the way of ' righteoufnefs? than after they have known it, to ' turn from the holy commandment delivered unto 'them. — Every tree, that bringeth not forth good fruit, 'iscutdotun, and caft into the fire.... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1775 - 500 pagine
...poverty of fpirit, and the holinefs defcribed in the fermon on the mount.] Mat. vi, 33. — It had been better for them not to have known THE WAY OF...known it to turn from the HOLY COMMANDMENT delivered unto them. 2 Pet. ii. zi. — By faith Noah moved with fear PREPARED AN ARK &c, [ie obeyed] by the... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1782 - 478 pagine
...than the beginning. For it had been bet' ter for them not to have known the way ' of righteoufnefs, than after they have ' known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." On this account the apoftles urge their fellow-chriftians to conftancy in the profeflion... | |
 | 1788 - 598 pagine
...than the >eginning. 21 For it had been better "or them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, 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... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1789 - 364 pagine
...JJ*" 1 ' '• 27' For it haJ b.tn tetter far thefe not to have knc'uin tl:e way of" rigbteoufiiffs, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered uito them *. But, alas! alas! thefe art twice dead, plucked up ly the roots, f and, therefore, fit... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1791 - 506 pagine
...them than the Beginning, .tor it had beeu better for tnem not to have known the Way ot Righteoufnefs, than after they have known it to turn from the holy Commandment, [the Gofpel] delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true Proverb; The Dog... | |
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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... 
