 | John Wesley - 1786 - 738 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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,...after they have ' known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." On this account the apoftles urge their fellow-chriftians to conftancy... | |
 | 1788 - 598 pàgines
...therein, and overcome, the latter end is worfe with them than the >eginning. 21 For it had been better "or them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than after they have known. it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them, according to the true proverb, The... | |
 | Andronicus - 1790 - 350 pàgines
...are again entangled therein, and overcome ; the latter End is worfe with them than the Beginning : for it had been better for them not to have known the Way of Rightepufnefs, than after they have known it, ti turn from, the holy Commandment delivered unto them.... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1791 - 500 pàgines
...rift, a re again ¡mangled therein,and overcome ; thelatterEndisworfs with them than the Beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known...than after they have known it to turn from the holy Commandment, [the Gofpel] delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true Proverb... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1791 - 506 pàgines
...is worfe with them than the Beginning, .tor it had beeu better for tnem not to have known the Way ot Righteoufnefs, than after they have known it to turn from the holy Commandment, [the Gofpel] delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true Proverb;... | |
 | 1796 - 612 pàgines
...they are again entangled therein, and overcome, 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 it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.... | |
 | Sir Adam Gordon - 1795 - 440 pàgines
...and overcome, the latter end of Juch being worfe 'with them than the beginning ; for it would have been better for them not to have known the way of...than after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. For by fo doing they come under the defcription of the proverb, 'The... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1796 - 530 pàgines
...reproach is caft upon God ? 5. Inftability in .the faith is worfe than profanenefs» 2 Pet. ii. 21, 22. " It had been better for them, not to have known the...than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment." Inftability being the porch of api ftacy, where this is total, it is worfe than profanity... | |
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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. 
