 | Lewis Stephens - 1727 - 62 pages
...Love towards our Saviour. And it is better that we bad never known the way of right eoufnefs, iban after we have known it, to turn from the holy Commandment delivered to wt and praftis d by us. for tbts ft lopng tbofe things mhicb toe have already wrought^ and I•ubjecYmg... | |
 | William Sherlock - 1739 - 314 pages
...begin- * !**«."' 2°* ning; for It had been better for us not to have known the way of right coufnefs, than after •we have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to us. Let thofe confider this, who have been blefled with a religious Education, and trained up in the Exercifes... | |
 | Lewis Atterbury - 1743 - 456 pages
...intolerable than other Men's. For much better had it been that we had never known the Way of Righteoufnefs than, after we have known it, to turn from the holy Commandment delivered unto us. For it muft needs be a very great Aggravation of our Sin, if, after we have performed the... | |
 | Lewis Atterbury - 1743 - 456 pages
...intolerable than other Men's. For much better had it been that we had never known the Way of Righteoufnefs than, after we have known it, to turn from the holy Commandment delivered unto us. For it muft needs be a very great Aggravation of our Sin, if, after we have performed the... | |
 | Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1777 - 332 pages
...SERMON V. this aflertion. For It had been better for us not to have known the way of right eoufnefs, than^ after we have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto us \ 1 2 Peter ii. 21. SERSERMON VI. Preached Nov. 16, 1766. St. JOHN, ch. xiv. ver. 8. Philip... | |
 | Thomas Secker (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1777 - 360 pages
...Practice, fuch as we ought; tetter had it teen for us, not to have known the Way of Righteoufnefty than, after we have known it, to turn from the holy Commandment deliver id unto us b . For unto whomfoever much is given, of him jhall much be required. The Servant,... | |
 | John Chapman (archdeacon of Bath.) - 1790 - 664 pages
...obnoxious to the greater condemnation. " Better were it not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than after we have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto us." The conclufion then is, that we bay the truth at any rate; that we grudge no application,... | |
 | Thomas Secker (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1790 - 336 pages
...Practice fuch as we ought j better had it been for us, not to have known the Way of Righttotifnefs, than, after -we have known it, to turn from the holy Commandment delivered unto ush. For unto whomfoever much is given, of him /ball much be required. The Servant, that knew... | |
 | Robert Woodward - 1791 - 224 pages
...mafter's will, and do it not. Better had it been for us not to have known the way of righteoufnefs, than, after we have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto us. Let us be diligent in making the proper ufe of that divine light which illuminates the mind,... | |
 | George Isaac Huntingford - 1795 - 362 pages
...awful DISC. declarations : " It had been better for us *' not to have known the way of righteouf" nefs, than after we have known it, to " turn from the holy commandment";'* and that, " if we fin wilfully, (/. e . wilfully " apoftatize from Chriftianity, and reject " it though... | |
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Christ, be yet tangled therein again, and overcome, then is the latter end worse than the beginning ; and it had been better for us not to have known the way of righteousness, than after we have known it, to turn from the holy commandment... 
