...near unto death, to restore them to their right minds, and to recover them to himself. Otherwise, " it had been better for them not to " have known the...turn from the holy " commandment delivered unto them. " OMICRON. ON DREAMING. Dear Madam, T THANK you for your obliging letter, and -*- would be thankful...

...servants of corruption ; for of whom a man is overcome, by the same he is brought into bondage. For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it has happened unto them according to the true proverb : The dog is turned to his own vomit again...

...recovery is more difficult, and less probable. Listen with a holy awe to St. Peter, whilst he cries, " If after they have escaped the. pollutions of the...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." Listen, and let your soul quake within you while you listen, to that terrible declaration of St. Paul...

...next to desperate. 21. I represent this sad, but most true doctrine, in the •words of St. Peter : " If, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them1." So that a relapse, after a state of grace, into a state of sin, into confirmed habits, is to...

...next to desperate. 21. I represent this sad, but most true doctrine, in the words of St. Peter : " If, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them1." So that a relapse, after a state of grace, into a state of sin, into confirmed habits, is to...

...14. Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked. 2 Pet. ii. 20, 2 1 . For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. Ezek. xxiii. 37 — 39. That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their...

...forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts," ver. 19. "If after they have escaped the pollutions of the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning," 2 Pet. ii. 20. " They say, if a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's,...

...heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. 2 Pet. ii, 20, 21 . For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end isQG worse with them than the beginning. For it had beet better for them not to have known the way...

...— " When it shall turn tothe Lord." In 2 Peter ii. 21, the same word is rendered turn from — " It had been better for them not to have known the...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. In these passages the same word is translated to be converted, to turn the body, to turn to the Lord,...

...17. d Rom. ii. 6 — 9. b 2 Thess. i. 7, 8. « John, iii. 19. « Matt. xvi. 27. f 2 Peter, ii. 21. of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and...end is worse with them than the beginning *." " For, if we wilfully sin after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice...