 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
 | John Fuller - 1829 - 448 pages
...entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning." Ibid. ii. 21. " For it had been better for them not to have known...it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." Ibid. iii. 17. " Ye therefore beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 512 pages
...is more difficult, and of smaller hope : because he is " twice dead and plucked up by the rootd." " 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 to his own vomit... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 510 pages
...is more difficult, and of smaller hope : because he is " twice dead and plucked up by the rootd." " 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 to his own vomit... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1830 - 364 pages
...classes, we may turn to those remarkable expressions of St. Peter aid St. Paul : " If, after having escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge...it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. If we sin wilfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more... | |
 | Charles James Blomfield (bp. of London.) - 1832 - 502 pages
...from the kingdom of God as an alien and intruder. The last state of that man w worse than the first : for if after they have escaped the pollutions of the...overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.14 Lastly, in contemplating the wonders and glories of creation, and the important part which... | |
 | John Brewster - 1830 - 602 pages
...excellent a tree, can never be a partaker of the real benefits of baptism ; for " if," as St. Peter says, " after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...the latter end is worse with them than the beginning VA true and justifying faith must be joined with perseverance ; and that, not of men, but by the influence... | |
 | Job Scott - 1831 - 606 pages
...concerned for such as had once made their escape from such as live in error, and movingly declares, " If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,...have known it, to turn from the holy commandment." Thus earnestly laboured this primitive disciple of Jesus, against this beguiling doctrine ; clearly... | |
 | Edward Maltby (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 422 pages
...and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace ? " The passage in St. Peter's Epistle runs thus ; " If, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn away from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true... | |
 | Don Harris - 2003 - 505 pages
...redefinition of common everyday words, what other conclusion can you come to when you read 2 Peter 2:20-22? "For if after they have escaped the pollutions of...beginning. For it had been better for them not to have blown the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered... | |
 | Carolyn J. Baker - 2003 - 365 pages
...the Chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. IIPeter2;2C> For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. I John 1;1 That Which was from the beginning, Which we have heard, Which we have seen with our eyes,... | |
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