 | Nathanael Torriano (the elder.) - Intermarriage - 1757 - 228 pages
...former Religion J the latter Endmuft be worfe than the Beginning, becaufe it had been better for them not' to have known the Way of Righteoufnefs, than...turn from the holy Commandment delivered unto them ; in as much as by fo doing they reject the Covenant of Grace and Mercy in Chrift. But, as the former... | |
 | John Tillotson - Sermons, English - 1757 - 482 pages
...worfe than when they were heathens before; and he gives the reafon, " for it had been better for " them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, " than...from the " holy commandment delivered unto them." And St. John calls this fin of apoftafy, the " fin unto " death ;" and though he do not forbid Chriftians... | |
 | John Tillotson - Sermons, English - 1757 - 498 pages
...overcome, ** the latter end is worfe with them than the begin** -fling. 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 com** mandmcnt delivered unto them." Therefore we may do well to confider ferioufly what we do, when... | |
 | Assembly of divines confess. and catech - 1765 - 626 pages
...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...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. v. 22. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Prebyterianism - 1768 - 576 pages
...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. v. 22. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb,... | |
 | John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1770 - 512 pages
...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...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." Double meafures of wrath feem to be prepared for them that die this double death. Infer. 5. If this... | |
 | Jeremiah Seed - 1770 - 546 pages
...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. Let their Danger fuggeft to us the Means of our own Security : And let us hot entertain a mean Opinion... | |
 | John Fletcher - Antinomianism - 1774 - 530 pages
...better for them, that have efcaped the pollutions of the world thro' the kitmuledge of eur Saviour, '[ie for believers]' not to have known the way of righteoufnefs,...commandment delivered unto them. — Every tree, that bringech not forth good fruit, is cut down, and call into the_/fo. — Every branch IN ME, that beareth... | |
 | John Fletcher - Justification (Christian theology) - 1775 - 500 pages
...the mount.] Mat. vi, 33. — It had been better for them not to have known THE WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, than after they have known it to 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.... | |
 | Samuel Ogden - 1780 - 380 pages
...mercies are awful, and every blefling has an edge with which it can a Pet. ii. wound. // had bun better not to have *!• known the "way of righteoufnefs,...than after they have known it, to turn from the holy John v. commandment delivered unto them. — Behold I4» thou art made wholet fin no moret left a worfe... | |
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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... 
