...converted fron» Heathen ifm loChriltianity. Ver. 20, " For it" fuch Chriftians " after they have elcaped the Pollutions of the World, through the Knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jefus С h rift, a re again ¡mangled therein,and overcome ; thelatterEndisworfs with them than the Beginning....

...difciples indeed." The aggravation of apoftacy is particularly pointed out by the apoftle Peter, 2 Pet. ii. .20. " If after they have efcaped " the pollutions of the world, through the know" ledge of the Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift, they *' are again entangled therein, and overcome;...

...manifefted himfelf, will not retain God in their knowledge; if thofe that have been enlightened, and have efcaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Sa* John v 40. vicur viour Jefus Chrift; if they are again entangled therein, and are finally loft;...

...committed, we shall " die." St. Peter is very express on this head: — " 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 with them...

...them in your mind. Once you tasted of the powers of the world to come. How is it that, having escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, yon are again entangled therein, and overcome ? Most truly, the latter end is worse with...

...of death. Therefore the npoftle Peter tells us, 2 Pet. ii. 20, 21. " For if, after they have de-aped the pollutions " of the world, through the knowledge...the Lord and Saviour " Jefus Chrift, they are again entangled therein, and overcome ; t (f the latter end is worfe with them than the beginning. For it...

...be feared, he has thus plunged, and long held, in all the gloom of defpondency : and fome, alas, " after " they have efcaped the pollutions of the world,...knowledge of the Lord and Saviour, " Jefus Chrift, have again, by his devices, " been " entangled therein, and overcome ; with whom " the latter end has...

...wantonnefs, (or to lafcivioufnefs) thofc who were clean efcaped from them that live in error ; for if after they have efcaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior jefus C/iri/l, ¿key are apain entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worfe with...

...that he fliould <lo this great thing ?" We read of fome who had " efcaped the pollutions that arc in the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift ;" who had fb far entertained and been influenced by Chriftianity, that they were vifibly reformed...

...and the la/ljlatc of that man is worfe than theftrft *. To the fame purpofe fays the apoftle Peter, If after they have efcaped the pollutions of the world, through the knovi/idge of tbf * Mat. xii. 43,--45' the Lord and Saviour, Jefus Chrifl, they ere again entangled...