...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...

...by whom a man is overcome, 20 by him he is also brought into slavery. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the ¡knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again intangled therein and overcome, their last state 21 is worse than the...

...present world, as the same apostle speaks, chap. iv. 10. We have seen people, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through 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...

...for of whom a man is overeome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 30 For if after they haveeseaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overeome, the latter end is worse with them than...

...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...

...world, and are more distinguished by its vices and follies than before. " For if after they have escaped the pollutions *.* of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord " and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled " therein, and overcome ; the latter end is worse than " the...

...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,...

...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...

...doctrine of the saints' perseverance, is taken from 2 Pet. ii. 20 — 22. For if after thei; have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome ; the latter end is ivorse with them than...

...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.' Sudi might indeed be joined to...