| 1807 - 592 sivua
...Church) that " if Christianity be true, it is tremendously true* :" — and better will it be " not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they...it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto themf." 4 It may be, however, that we only waste our time, in pressing such. considerations as these,... | |
| Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 sivua
...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,...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 sivua
...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,...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 - 592 sivua
...wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error :" upon which the Apostle remarks, " It had been better for them not to have known the...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. "I1 II. It will be proper for me now to consider an objection, which may possibly be urged against... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 304 sivua
...wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error :" upon which the Apostle remarks, " It had been better for them not to have known the...it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them."f II. It will be proper for me now to consider an objection, which may possibly be urged against... | |
| John Newton - 1808 - 624 sivua
...them. They will not only lose the prize, but will receive a heavy and aggravated doom. It would have been better for them not to have known the way of...known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. If. you were forced to run for your lives, you would be very thoughtful about the event. But... | |
| George Stanley Faber - 1808 - 596 sivua
...in error :" upon which the Apostle remarks, " It had been better for them not to have known the way1 of righteousness, than, after they have known it,...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them."^ II. It will be proper for me now to consider an objection, which may possibly be urged against the... | |
| 1808 - 504 sivua
...are again entangled and overc.ome by them, the last state of such persons is worse 21 than the first. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to 22 turn away from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it hath happened to them... | |
| Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 578 sivua
...and apostacy of these elevated break-neck professors, see that most dreadful place, 2 Pet. ii. 21. For it had been better for them not to have known...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. Is not the wrath of God certainly to be revealed agamst all those, who know not God, and obey not the... | |
| John Newton - 1809 - 312 sivua
...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...from the holy commandment, " delivered unto them." OMICRONON DREAMING. DEAR. MADAM, I THANK you for your obliging letter, and would be thankful to the... | |
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