 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...  A System of Revealed Religion ... - Page 1731819Full view - About this book
 | Church of England articles - 1821 - 234 pages
...ii. 8. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord aud Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein,...it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverh, The dog has turned to his own vomit... | |
 | John Fry - 1822 - 568 pages
...the 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...it, to 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... | |
 | Henry Kollock - 1822 - 442 pages
...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...it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." Listen, and let your soul quake within you while you listen, to that terrible declaration of... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 550 pages
...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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 554 pages
...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... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...ii. 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...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... | |
 | 1819 - 996 pages
...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,... | |
 | Edward John Burrow - 1822 - 594 pages
...good 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...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... | |
 | Whitlock Nicol - 1823 - 356 pages
...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... | |
 | Greville Ewing - 1824 - 268 pages
...sins." Nay, he declares the danger of such a state in still stronger terms, 2 Epis. ii. 20 — 22. " For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the...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 unto his own vomit... | |
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