 | Assembly of divines confess. and catech - 1765 - 626 หน้า
...again intangled therein, and overcome; the latter end is worfe .with them than the beginning, v. 21. For it had 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 unto them.... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1767 - 414 หน้า
...lufts are become rampant in them, as given up to vile affeftions defiling the very outward man. // has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and, The fow that -was waJhtd, to her wallo-wittg in the mire, 2 Pet. ii. 22. " O backffiders, your cafe is... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1768 - 576 หน้า
...again intangled therein, and o?ercome ; the latter end is worfe with them than the beginning, y.' 1 1 . For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandmtnt delivered unto them.... | |
 | Samuel Shaw - 1769 - 590 หน้า
...fame, and that their reformation and good behaviour was meerly external, ver. 22. " It is happened to them according to the true " proverb, the dog is turned to his vomit again, " and the fow tiiat was wafhed, to her wallowing " in the mire." Paul Paul tells Timothy,... | |
 | John Flavel - 1770 - 512 หน้า
...and Saviour Jefus Chrift, they are again entangled therein, and overcome ; the latter end is worfe with them than the beginning. For it had 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 unto them."... | |
 | Jeremiah Seed - 1770 - 546 หน้า
...Godlinefs are daily adding to the Number and Malignity of their Sins ? What can we think indeed, but that it had been better for them not to have known the way of Rigbteoufaefs, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy Commandment delivered unto them.... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1774 - 530 หน้า
...thro' the kitmuledge of eur Saviour, '[ie for believers]' not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. — Every tree, that bringech not forth good fruit, is cut down, and call into the_/fo. — Every branch... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1774 - 212 หน้า
...the knowledge of our Saviour, [ie 1 for believers] ' not to have known the way of ' righteoufnefs? than after they have known it, to ' turn from the holy commandment delivered unto 'them. — Every tree, that bringeth not forth good fruit, 'iscutdotun, and caft into the fire. — Every... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1775 - 500 หน้า
...Seek ye poverty of fpirit, and the holinefs defcribed in the fermon on the mount.] Mat. vi, 33. — It had been better for them not to have known THE...turn from the HOLY COMMANDMENT delivered unto them. 2 Pet. ii. zi. — By faith Noah moved with fear PREPARED AN ARK &c, [ie obeyed] by the which he, &c.... | |
 | John Wesley - 1786 - 738 หน้า
...to whom the gofpel is revealed may do, and doth it not,*Jhall be beaten wilh many Jlripcs ; and fo it had been better for them not to have known the way of life, or to have had no covenant of grace tendered to them. For if they be not able by the grace which... | |
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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,... 
