 | Jemima Shedd - Future punishment - 1839 - 244 pages
...afflictions and grief upon them, for their profit, that they may partake of his holiness. — Heb. 12 : 10. 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 known... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1840 - 536 pages
...tempests, and not falling to refresh the ground, but leading to " the blackness of darkness for ever." 1 20. For if after they have escaped the pollutions...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.... | |
 | George Eduard Biber - Church - 1840 - 540 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 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 theV have known... | |
 | John Goodwin - Redemption - 1840 - 774 pages
...Even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction," 2 Pet. ii. I ; " For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the...latter end is worse with them than the beginning," 2 Pet. ii. 20; " Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden... | |
 | Education - 1840 - 698 pages
...afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins." Or again, 2 Pet. ii. 20, 21 — " 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 known... | |
 | Catechisms, English - 1841 - 224 pages
...saith the Lord. — And weary themselves to commit iniquity. Isa. Ivii. 17. (9) 3 Pet. ii. 20, 21. 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... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1841 - 602 pages
...Peter felt all the force of his Lord's words when he wrote, respecting backsliders and apostates : " 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... | |
 | 1842 - 384 pages
...swelling woriU of vanity, they allure through the lasts of the flesh, through much wantonness, from grace. that were clean escaped from them who live in error....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 Mather Austin - Sunday schools - 1842 - 194 pages
...into wickedness than ever before. Q. What are the words of Peter which illustrate these views ? A. " For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of...latter end is worse with them than the beginning." — (2 Pet. ii. 20.) LESSON XI. Parable of the Wheat and the Tares. "Another parable put he forth unto... | |
 | 1842 - 332 pages
...condition than he was in before his partial recovery ? An Apostle has taught us what to think of this. " 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 had known... | |
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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. 
