 | John Jones - 1812 - 1054 páginas
...language holds them forth as "persons who once believed in o Christ, and even conformed to his gospel. " It had been better for them not to have known the...they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But ife hath happened to them, according to the true proverb, The dog returns... | |
 | 1806 - 662 páginas
...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 the way of...than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy coiniinindiftOnt ; but it has happened to them according to thetrue proverb: " The dog is turned to... | |
 | John Owen - 1813 - 644 páginas
...punishment at the last day. So the apostle determines this matter, " 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 commandment delivered unto them," 2 Peter ii. 21. Again, This unbelief in rejecting the gospel, is either notional... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1812 - 226 páginas
...he does of me, that " he can take either side of the question as he finds occasion:" but this I to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." Sermons, p. 66. suy, he appears to me to feel the force of some truths -which... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1812 - 630 páginas
...mine, I will recompence, saith the Lord'. It had been better for them, as St. Paul expresses it, not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them ; 2 Pet. ii. 21. Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute... | |
 | John Owen, Edward Williams - 1812 - 596 páginas
...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... | |
 | Richard Mant - 1813 - 440 páginas
...but 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...have known it, to turn from the Holy Commandment, delivered unto them'." Surely, my beloved brethren, it were more prudent to suffer ourselves to be... | |
 | 1813 - 580 páginas
...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... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 498 páginas
...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... | |
 | Ethan Smith - 1814 - 598 páginas
...the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them, than the beginning. For it had been...they have 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... | |
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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... 
