...God in his wrath, harden a pillar of salt ; tor if, after they h:ive escaped tlic; pwlIntions of tlie world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour...they are again, entangled therein, and overcome, the hitter end is worse with them than the beginning ; fin it bad been better for them not to have known...

...mine, I will recompence, saith the Lord'. It had been better for them, as St. Paul expresses it, not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they...known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them ; 2 Pet. ii. 21. Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment...

...punishment at the last day. So the apostle determines this matter, " It had been better for men not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they...known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them," 2 Peter ii. 21. Again, This unbelief in rejecting the gospel, is either notional and practical,...

...he does of me, that " he can take either side of the question as he finds occasion:" but this I to have known the way of righteousness, than after they...known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." Sermons, p. 66. suy, he appears to me to feel the force of some truths -which do not well...

...but liereafter they will be painfully convinced of the truth of the warning of the Apostle, that " it had been better for them not to have known the...known it, to turn from the Holy Commandment, delivered unto them'." Surely, my beloved brethren, it were more prudent to suffer ourselves to be persuaded...

...the slaves of corruption ; for by whom a man is overcome, 20 by him he is also brought into slavery. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the...the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again intangled therein and overcome, their last state 21 is worse than the first. For it had been better...

...Heb. vi. 4. " For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled...latter end is worse with them than the beginning," 2 Peter ii. 20. Such texts, I fear, are made too light of among us. There is a disposition, by adroit...

...of bondage, and into a more dangerous situation than if tkey had never been saved. " For, (said he) if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,...knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they arc again entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning." As...

...them into subjeetion for servants, and for handmaids. 2 Pet. 2. 20. For if after they have eseaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge...Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overeome ; the latter end is worse with them than. the beginning. (r) 2 Kings 5. 26. And he said unto...

...it, having loved this present world, as the same apostle speaks, chap. iv. 10. We have seen people, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,...the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, again entangled therein ; and overcome, as St. Peter says, 2 Epist. ii. 20. We have seen Christians,...