 | Assembly of divines confess. and catech - 1765 - 626 էջ
...again intangled therein, and overcome; the latter end is worfe .with them than the beginning, v. 21. For it had been better for them not to have known...they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. v. 22. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1768 - 576 էջ
...again intangled therein, and 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...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 - 1770 - 512 էջ
...and Saviour Jefus Chrift, they are again entangled therein, and overcome ; the latter end is worfe with them than the beginning. For it had been better...they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." Double meafures of wrath feem to be prepared for them that die this double death.... | |
 | Jeremiah Seed - 1770 - 546 էջ
...Godlinefs are daily adding to the Number and Malignity of their Sins ? What 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.... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1774 - 530 էջ
...have efcaped the pollutions of the world thro' the kitmuledge of eur Saviour, '[ie for believers]' not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than after...they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. — Every tree, that bringech not forth good fruit, is cut down, and call into... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1774 - 212 էջ
...have efcaped the pollutions of the 'world through the knowledge of our Saviour, [ie 1 for believers] ' not to have known the way of ' righteoufnefs? than...have known it, to ' turn from the holy commandment delivered unto 'them. — Every tree, that bringeth not forth good fruit, 'iscutdotun, and caft into... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1775 - 500 էջ
...Seek ye poverty of 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.... | |
 | John Wesley - 1786 - 738 էջ
...to whom the gofpel is revealed may do, and doth it not,*Jhall be beaten wilh many Jlripcs ; and fo it had been better for them not to have known the way of life, or to have had no covenant of grace tendered to them. For if they be not able by the grace which... | |
 | Samuel Ogden - 1780 - 380 էջ
...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... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1782 - 478 էջ
...therein, and overcome ; the latter end is worfe with them ' than the beginning. For it had been bet' ter for them not to have known the way ' of righteoufnefs,...have ' known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." On this account the apoftles urge their fellow-chriftians to conftancy in the... | |
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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. 
