 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 Evans - 1825 - 562 pages
...adversaries." If we draw back, it is " unto perdition," ver. 39. — 2 Pet. ii. 20, 21. " If, after men have escaped the pollutions of the world, through...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. Fur it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have known... | |
 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 698 pages
...corruption that is in the world through lust, 2 Pet. i. 4. For if after they have escaped the pollution» of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and...latter end is worse with them than the beginning, ii. ÏO. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the... | |
 | John Scott - Sermons, English - 1826 - 608 pages
...guilty and criminal condition than ever. For thus St. Peter determines in the case, 2 Pet. ii. 20, 21. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...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 William Fletcher - 1826 - 854 pages
...is not the God of the dead, but of the living;' and that ' if after they have escaped the pollution of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and...latter end is worse with them than the beginning.' Leaving these lukewarm, formal, Laodicean professors to the mercy of God, I subscribe myself, Sir,... | |
 | 1827 - 512 pages
...are the servants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of...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... | |
 | 1827 - 524 pages
...are the servants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of...way of righteousness, than, after they have known if, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to... | |
 | Russel Canfield - Universalism - 1827 - 268 pages
...may still be urged, how could the want of this new birth have tended to the good of Judas ? Ans. " For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of...way of righteousness, than after they have known, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." It is then very obvious that this idea of the... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1827 - 484 pages
...themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame." " If after they have escaped the pollution of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and...of righteousness, than after they have known it, to depart from the holy commandment delivered unto them." These and other similar passages shew us the... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 676 pages
...looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. 2 PET. ii. 20, 21 : If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world...For it had been better for them not to have known s 27 ^[ And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her... | |
 | Noah Levings - Theology, Doctrinal - 1827 - 248 pages
...question had not been purged from his old sins ; yet this character is said, to be blind, &c. Again — '< For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the...therein, and overcome, the latter end, is worse with them tlum the beginning." " For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness,... | |
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