...own judgment did not linger, nor their own damnation Jlumber, ver. 3 ; that it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteoufnefs,...known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them, ver. 21. In the third and laft chapter he confiders the fcoffers, and their irreligious infult,...

...It had been better for them, as St. Paul expresses it, not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have 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 upon ungodly sinners...

...apostle determines this matter, " It had been better for men not to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have 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, or practical...

...jbegipiting," 2 Pet. ii. 20, 21. " 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." That the " knowledge of the way of righteousness," which they had attained, was an inward, experimental...

...conformed to his gospel. " 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. But ife hath happened to them, according to the true proverb, The dog returns to his own vom|t, and...

...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. (r) As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in hiin ; holding faith and a good...

...either side of the question as he finds occasion:" but this I to have known the way of righteousness, than after they have 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 comport with...

...the beginning. Ver. 21. For it had been better for them not to have Jcnown the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. Ver. 22. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit...

...them than the heginning. For it had heen hetter for them not to have known the way of righteousuess, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." — You must lay your accounts with some such characters from amongst you, "men of corrupt minds, who...

...warning of the Apostle, that " 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'." Surely, my beloved brethren, it were more prudent to suffer ourselves to be persuaded of this in time,...