 | 1806 - 662 sider
...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... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1812 - 226 sider
...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...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 do not well... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 1812 - 630 sider
...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...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 judgment... | |
 | John Owen - 1813 - 644 sider
...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...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 and practical,... | |
 | John Owen, Edward Williams - 1812 - 596 sider
...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 - 1812 - 478 sider
...affuredly find, that their own judgment did not linger, nor their own damnation Jlumber, ver. 3 ; that it would 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,... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock (bp. of London.) - 1812 - 464 sider
...affuredly find, that their own judgment did not linger, nor their own damnation Jlumber, ver. 3 ; that it would have 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 to them,... | |
 | John Jones - 1812 - 1054 sider
...acknowledging our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, their last condition is worst than the first; since it was better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than after this acknowledgement, to turn aside from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it hath happened... | |
 | Richard Mant - 1813 - 440 sider
...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... | |
 | 1813 - 580 sider
...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... | |
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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... 
