 | John Newton - Theology - 1810 - 726 pages
...teachers and doctrines they had once owned, has observed to this purpose — " They went out from " us, but they were not of us ; for if they had been...with us ; " but they went out that they might be made manifest, " that they were not all of us*." In a word, there were too many pretenders; some things... | |
 | Christian biography - 1810 - 480 pages
...himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not." It also agrees with chap. ii. 19, "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been...with us. But they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us." Altogether, it affords, what we might presume to call, an incontestible... | |
 | Benjamin Trumbull - Christian life - 1810 - 122 pages
...Formerly associated. " They went out from us," saith the apostle, " but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued...with us ; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that they were not all of us." (1 Efiist. John ii. 19.) In days when your faith and constancy... | |
 | Charles Simeon - Sermons - 1810 - 518 pages
...thereby that they never truly belonged to it; " they went out from us because they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us" b —Every true believer has been faithful unto death—] 2. Numerous [What more numerous than the... | |
 | Charles Simeon - Sermons - 1810 - 516 pages
...that they never, truly belonged to it; " they went out from us because they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us"b— Every true believer has been faithful unto death—] 2. Numerous •' , [What more numerous... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 454 pages
...30. Some withdrew, and set up for teachers, while others followed after them. " They went out from us, but they were not of us, for, if they had been...with us; but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us," 1 John ii. 19. Howbeit, though many were taken with his wild... | |
 | John Satchel - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 434 pages
...they are by their breach of the unity of the church. The apostle St. John says, They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been...with us : but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they -were not all of us. My dear Eusebia, continued he, you have been moping here by... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - Millennium (Eschatology) - 1811 - 536 pages
...discovered by their falling away. Therefore, the apostle John says, of such apostates, " They went out from us, but they were not of us : For if they had been...with us : But they went out, that they might be made manifest, that they were not all of us."* These declarations do indeed suppose that persons may set... | |
 | Joseph Bellamy - 1811 - 556 pages
...from their churches; numbers of their graceless converts, 1 mean. 1 John ii. 19. They went out from us, but they were not of us : for ij they had been...of us, they would no doubt have continued with us. Now it cannot be pretended there was any want of external light and evidence, needful to discern and... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 pages
...well feed him in the air as upon the earth. Quot. The evangelist mentions some " They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been...us, they would, no doubt, have continued with us." Answ. To go out of a church that is planted and watered by the ministry of an evangelist, is a scriptural... | |
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They went out from us, but they were not of us ; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us : but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. 
