 | Richard Hele - Devotional literature - 1825 - 598 pages
...they are again entangled therein and overcome; the latter end is worse with them than the beginning: For it had been better for them not to have known...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them p. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees q ; Looking diligently, lest "any... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 698 pages
...they are againentangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to hie own vomit again... | |
 | Hugh McNeile - Sermons, English - 1825 - 472 pages
...they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning; for it had been better for them not to have known...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 vomit again,... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1825 - 506 pages
...they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning : for it had been better for them, not to have known...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 again... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1825 - 462 pages
...among them. The apostle, speaking of apostates, represents them as acting according to their nature. " It had been better for them not to have known the...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 vomit again ;... | |
 | John Evans - 1825 - 562 pages
...are again entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. Fur it had been better for them not to have known the...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." Awful warnings! which should ever keep up a wakeful care to finish our course with joy. 2. Stedfastness... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1825 - 528 pages
...are again entangltd therein usd overcome, the latter end is teorse with them than the beginning. Fur it had been better for them not to have known the...known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unlo them. But it has happened unto them according to the true proverh, The dog is turned to hit own... | |
 | James Ross - 1825 - 472 pages
...looking for of judgment, and fiery indignation which shall consume the adversaries. — It would have been better for them not to have known the way of...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. — If our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost ; in whom the god of this world hath blinded... | |
 | John Scott - Sermons, English - 1826 - 608 pages
...they are again entangled therein, and overcome ; the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known...have known it, to turn from the holy commandment: that is, by relapsing into those sinful pollutions out of which they had been rescued by the belief... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1827 - 548 pages
...entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning." 2 Pet. ii. 2U, 21. " For it had been better for them, not to have...turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." That the " knowledge of the way of righteousness," which they had attained, was an inward, experimental... | |
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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... 
