...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...

...Another objection against the doctrine of the saints' perseverance, is taken from 2 Pet* ii, 20 — 22. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the -world, through the knowledge af the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled tfierein, and overcome ; the latter...

...iro^iay,' fijny, fry SeSopivr,* ?ua^Xfcu pa IlauAcu. Sect. u. 407 8. The words of 2 Pet. ii. 19, " Of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage," are quoted by " Adamantius, not as the words of Peter, but as a saying or maxim**of some wise man not...

...come,*' Heb. vi. And St. Peter makes the supposition, " that some, who have escaped the pollutions erf the world through the knowledge of the Lord. and Saviour Jesus Christ, may be again entangled therein, and overcome," 2 Pet. ii. 20. And St. Paul witli grief speaks of "...

...19.) While they promise themselves " liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption :. for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought into bondage" — a bondage far worse than Egyptian, and from which nothing' but the immediate hand...

...impediment in it's way. For of persons so circumstanced the Apostle may be understood, where he says, " if after they have " escaped the pollutions of the...they are again " entangled therein and overcome;" or, as it may be expressed, in immediate reference to our present subject ; if, after having been sanctified...

...there is liberty." (n) If therefore they are the slaves of sin, why do they boasKof free will? " For of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage." (o) But if they have been liberated, why do they boast as of their own work? Are they so much at liberty...

...yet fall hack info those pollutions, and perish everlastingly. For thus saith the apostle Peter, ' If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world,...the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (the only possible way of escaping them) they are again entangled therein and overcome ; the latter...

...ticed. " It," says this apostle, (with reference to some of the converts whom he was addressing) — " if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the...through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Chris!, they arc again entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning...

...children ; which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray." And further he says of them ; " If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesua Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome ; the latter end is worse with them than...