 | John Ball - Arminianism - 1645 - 380 pages
...Church, enjoyed the Ordinances of God, profcflcd the faith, had known the way of truth, and efcaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jcfos Chrift. i/Vf.a.so. they had turned from the holy Commandement delivered onto tticm, and it had... | |
 | James Ussher - 1660 - 628 pages
...writes of such men, " that* while they promise others liberty, they themselves are the servants of sin ; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage." So that man who is overcome with every sin, he is not free, but a slave bound in the chains of sin... | |
 | John Scott - Christian life - 1686 - 486 pages
...than ever. For thus S. Peter determines in the Cafe, 2 Pet. ii. 20, 2 1. If after they have- efcaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jefm Chrift, they are again int angled therein, endwercomejhe latter end is worfe with them than the... | |
 | John Norris - English literature - 1710 - 392 pages
...hav^ ing in it many degrees of Evil beyond the lommon State of Sin. for if after they have efcaped the Pollutions of the World through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Je~ fits Chrift, they are again entangled therein and overcome^ the Inner End is worje with them than... | |
 | William Beveridge - 1711 - 892 pages
...to dtftroy tb¿ Works of {be Devi!, I John »ii. 8. ' But, as the Apoftle obferves. Men efcafe tee pollutions of the World, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jefus Cbrift, 2 Pet. ii. 20. For by it we know how to overcome the World, fo as to live above it :... | |
 | Jesus Christ, John Henderson Thomson - Christian martyrs - 1871 - 720 pages
...those things, whereof ye are now ashamed ? for the end of those things is death.' And 2 Pet ii. 19 : 'While they promise them liberty, they themselves...is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.' And against the Cess and Locality, or paying of militia money, or any other thing which may strengthen... | |
 | Francis Gastrell (bp. of Chester) - 1717 - 352 pages
...Fleafures more than Lovers of God ; and (hall feek their own, not the things of Jefus Chrift. Thefe are the Servants of Corruption ; for of whom a Man is overcome, of the fame is he brought in Bondage. e He that liveth in Pleafure is dead while he liveth. f A rich Man (hall... | |
 | Daniel Wilcox - Sermons, English - 1744 - 454 pages
...than if they had never made a profeffion of Chrift, 2 Pet. ii. 20, 21. For if after they have efcafed the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jejus Chrift, they are again entangled therein, and overcome ; the latter end is wor/e with them than... | |
 | John Tillotson - Sermons, English - 1748 - 448 pages
...himfelf very feverely concerning this fort of perfons, 2 epift. ii. 20. For if after they have efcaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrifl, (that is, after they have been brought from Heathenifin to Chriftianity), they are again... | |
 | William Sherlock - Death - 1751 - 326 pages
...bitternefs fpringing up, trouble Hcb. xii. !j. you, and thereby many be defiled; left after we have efcaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour yejus Chrift, we are again entangled therein, and overcome, and it happen to us according to the true... | |
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While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 
