 | Missions - 1796 - 612 pages
...despite unto the spirit of grace ?" Ch. x. 26, 27, 28, 29. "Peter also describes the same characters : " For if after they have escaped the pollutions of 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... | |
 | George Haggitt - 1796 - 408 pages
...ini" quity, that we have committed, we shall " die." St. Peter is very express on this head: — " If, after they have escaped the " pollutions of the...latter end is " worse with them than the beginning." We must, therefore, continue our exertions to the end of our course, we must fight the good fight to... | |
 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 448 pages
...spirit and in truth. 2. There must be continuance in well-doing. It is said, 2 Pet. ii. 20, 21, 22, " If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,...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... | |
 | 1804 - 438 pages
...tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. 1 8 For when they speak great swelling ivords of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh,...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... | |
 | Timothy Kenrick - Bible - 1807 - 684 pages
...them, they become stronger and more inveterate than before. Peter has expressed the same sentiment; " for if, after they have escaped the pollutions of...latter end is worse with them than the beginning." 2 Peter, ih 20. 46. While he yet talked to the people, behold his mother and his brethren stood without,... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1807 - 550 pages
...and said unto thee, live. Zeph. iii. 1. Woe to the city that is filthy and polluted. 2 Pet. ii. 20. If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. See the wicked pollute God's name. Isa. xx. 9. — xlviii. 11. Jer.xxxiv. 16. Ezek.xiii. 19. — xxxix.r.Mal.... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 596 pages
...the servants of corruption : for, of whom a man is overcome, of the same he is brought in bondage. For, if, after they have escaped the pollutions of...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... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1808 - 304 pages
...the servants of corruption : for, of whom a man is overcome, of the same he is brought in bondage. For, if, after they have escaped the pollutions of...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... | |
 | James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 594 pages
...well that had no water. Tin' husbandman was equally disappointed, to see clouds arise which gave ev 18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity,...latter end is worse with them than the beginning. IB 'TTiepoyxa yap ftaev aapxoj, TOUJ OJTUJ a19 Etev&epiav awroi^ enavtoi 5ouA« <p3opa$' 6) yap rig... | |
 | James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 586 pages
...no \vatcr. The husbandman was equally disappointed, to see clouds arise v hich gave VOL. v. 69 ^ 19 18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity,...entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse wiih them than the beginning. is 'TTiepoyxa yap (ia.TatoT?fTo$ (pSeyyofievoi o'e/Ua£ovctiv ev sn&v(ucu$... | |
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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. 
