...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...

...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,...

...word of God; that they obtain many and excellent, though not saving gifts of the Holy Spirit ; that they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through...the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : and, who, in short, can enumerate all those blessings which they enjoy, not by accident only, beside...

...seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and expose him to open shame." 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 therein, and overcome, the latter end is...

...coasider, the warning language of toe aposilc Peter — " For if after they have escaped the pollotious Of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus thrist, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end W it worse with them than the...

...apostates, whe were introduced, in verse 18, as being allured, after they were thought to have escaped; "For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them,...

...root of bitterness springing up, trouble " you, and thereby many be defiled ;" ver. 151 lest "after we have escaped the pollutions of the world, " through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior •'< Jesus Christ, we are agsin entangled therein, and " overcome, and it happen to us according...

...for others was, that they might be saved." He felt peculiarly concerned that the young might " escape the pollutions of the world," through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour, and be raised up as a " seed to serve the Lord." He saw, with deep concern, the bulk of the youth around...

...professors, whom they seduced which otherwise they could not have done ; and therefore it is said, ' They had escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,' and that they had ' known the way of righteousness.' Such might indeed be joined to the church afterwards...

...whatever a man is overcome, by the same is he enslaved. 20. For if after they have escaped the pollution of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they be again entangled therein, and overcome, their latter end is worse than the beginning. 21. For it...