Worsley [1770], THE NEW TESTAMENT OR NEW COVENANT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated from the Greek ACCORDING TO The Present Idiom of the English Tongue. With NOTES and REFERENCES interspersed, as occasion required, to confirm and illustrate the more literal or various Renderings given at the bottom of each page; by which even they, who do not understand the Original, may often judge for themselves of the justness and propriety of the Translation. By the late Mr. JOHN WORSLEY, of Hertford (Printed by R. Hett, LONDON) [word count] [B18100].
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1 But there were indeed false prophets among the people
of old, as there will be also among you false teachers,
who will privately introduce note pernicious heresies, denying
even the Lord that note bought them, and bringing
upon themselves swift destruction,
2 And many will
follow their pernicious tenets, on whose account the
way of truth will be note reproached:
3 and by note artful
speeches they will make sale of you note for gain. Whose
judgement is long since note hastening, and their destruction
doth not slumber.
4 For if God spared not the angels
that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered
them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgement;
and if He spared not the old world,
5 (but preserved
Noah an eighth person, a preacher of righteousness,)
bringing a deluge upon the world of the ungodly;
-- --
6 and reducing the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha to
ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them
an example to those that should afterwards be impious;
7 and delivered righteous Lot grieved at the lewd conversation
of the wicked:
8 (for that note good man by seeing
and hearing their crimes, when he dwelt among them,
tormented his righteous soul from day to day with their
9 iniquitous deeds) then the Lord knoweth how to deliver
the pious from temptation, and to reserve the wicked to
the day of judgement to be punished:
10 note especially those
who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and
despise authority; who, being audacious and self-willed,
are not afraid to speak evil of dignities:
11 whereas angels,
who are greater in strength and power, bring not a reviling
accusation against them before the Lord.
12 But these men, like note brute beasts naturally produced
to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil of things which
they do not understand, shall note perish by their own corruption;
receiving the reward of their unrighteousness:
13
who account it a pleasure to riot even in the day; spots
and disgraces; revelling in their frauds, while they
partake of your feasts:
14 having eyes full of adultery, and
which cannot be restrained from sin: ensnaring unstable
souls, and having a heart practised in note rapine; note cursed
people:
15 who have forsaken the right way, and are gone
astray, having followed note the way of Balaam the son of
Bosor, who loved the wages of iniquity;
16 but was reproved
for his transgression: for a dumb beast speaking
note with the voice of a man checked the madness of the
prophet.
17 These are wells without water, clouds driven
by a storm, for whom note thick darkness is reserved for
ever.
18 For when they speak swelling words of vanity,
they ensnare in the lusts of the flesh, through their lasciviousness,
those who had indeed note withdrawn from
such as note deal in error;
19 promising them liberty, while
they themselves are the slaves of corruption: for by
whom any one is vanquished, by him he is also enslaved.
20 For if, after they had note escaped the pollutions of the
world, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ, they are again entangled and vanquished
-- --
by them, their last state is worse than the first;
21 for it
had been better for them not to have note known the way
of righteousness, than note when they knew it, to turn
from the holy commandment delivered to them.
22 But it
is happened to them according to the true proverb, The
dog is returned to his own vomit, and, The swine that
was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
Worsley [1770], THE NEW TESTAMENT OR NEW COVENANT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated from the Greek ACCORDING TO The Present Idiom of the English Tongue. With NOTES and REFERENCES interspersed, as occasion required, to confirm and illustrate the more literal or various Renderings given at the bottom of each page; by which even they, who do not understand the Original, may often judge for themselves of the justness and propriety of the Translation. By the late Mr. JOHN WORSLEY, of Hertford (Printed by R. Hett, LONDON) [word count] [B18100].
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