 | James Ussher - 1660 - 628 pages
...beginning." Here is that apostacy, and here is the subject of the temporary faith. " 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 ;" this was a temporary conversion, as " Ephraim1, like... | |
 | Robert Persons - Asceticism - 1754 - 684 pages
...: For it was better for them not to know » jp««-t4 the way of juftice, than after the knowledge, to turn back from that holy commandment, which was delivered to them. This being fo, let finful worldlings go now and fo- v«n ««• lace themfelves in their vanities,... | |
 | John Fletcher - Justification (Christian theology) - 1775 - 500 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Missions - 1796 - 612 pages
...therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For 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. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb,... | |
 | 1802 - 374 pages
...therein, and overcome, the latter end_ is worse with them than the beginning. 2 1 For 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. '22 But it is happened unto them according to the true... | |
 | N. NISBETT - 1802 - 314 pages
...judgment did not linger, nor their own damnation slumber, " ver. 3. — that it would have 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 to '' them. ver. 21. In the third and last chapter, he considers... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1802 - 644 pages
...terrible execution, which the divine justice is preparing for them ; and that it would have been better for them, not to have known the way of righteousness, than after having known it, *Heb. ii. 10. f 2 Kings vi. 16. J Psnl. cxxv. 1. §Zech.x.5; 1 1 Pet v. 9. 51 Isai.... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - Theology - 1802 - 626 pages
...terrible execution, which the divine justice is preparing for them ; and that it would have been better for them, not to have known the way of righteousness, than after having known it, * Heb. ii. 10. f 2 Kings vi. 16. J Psal- cxxv. 1. § Zech. x. 5i || 1 Pet. v. 9. f... | |
 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 448 pages
...therein, and overcome ; the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For 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. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb,... | |
 | 1804 - 438 pages
...and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 392 '21 For 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. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true... | |
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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... 
