 | John Owen, Edward Williams - Bible - 1812 - 596 pages
...distempers who hath rejected and despised it, what can cure him? "It had been better for men not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandments delivered to them," 2 Pet. ii, 21. Renegadoes from the gospel are the greatest villains... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock - Sermons, English - 1812 - 478 pages
...have been better for them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than, after they have known itt to turn from the holy. commandment delivered to them, ver. 21. In the third and laft chapter he confiders the fcoffers, and their irreligious infult, Where is the promife of his coming... | |
 | Richard Mant - Apologetics - 1813 - 440 pages
...liereafter they will be painfully convinced of the truth of the warning of the Apostle, that " it had been better for them not to have known the way of...known it, to turn from the Holy Commandment, delivered unto them'." Surely, my beloved brethren, it were more prudent to suffer ourselves to be persuaded... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1813 - 580 pages
...is worse with them than the beginning. Ver. 21. For it had been better for them not to have Jcnown the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. Ver. 22. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, English - 1813 - 498 pages
...greater aid and more resistance. Hear St. Peter, // had been better for them not to have known Uie way of righteousness, than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment, 2 Epist. ii. 21. The case of those who commit the unpardonable sin, attests the same. Hear these thundering... | |
 | Baptists - 1813 - 432 pages
...them than the heginning. For it had heen hetter for them not to have known the way of righteousuess, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." — You must lay your accounts with some such characters from amongst you, "men of corrupt... | |
 | Ethan Smith - Antichrist - 1814 - 598 pages
...entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse 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 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own... | |
 | 1814 - 570 pages
...entangled therein, and overeome, 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 known it, to turn from the holy'command-, ment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them aeeording to the true proverb,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1845 - 496 pages
...Christian character, and alone evidences a state of salvation. " Better would it have been for such not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they...have known it, to turn from the holy commandment." (2 Peter ii. 2l.) Perhaps I may not be deemed intrusive, if I suggest a preventive of the danger I... | |
 | John Mannock - 1815 - 352 pages
...sacrifice for sins, but a certain terrible expectation of judgment. Heb. x. 26. and St. Peter, It had been better for them not to have known the way of...they have known it to turn from the holy commandment which was given them. 2. Peter, ii. 21. King Pharoah sinned grievously herein, when so often admonished... | |
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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... 
