| Joseph Bellamy - Congregational churches - 1811 - 584 pages
...from their churches ; numbers of their graceless converts, 1 mean. I John ii. l<). They went out from us, but they were not of us -.for ij they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued zfith us. Now it cannot be pretended there was any w;mt of external light and evidence, needful to... | |
| Edward Davies - 1811 - 438 pages
...real and true, but only nominal members of the church— for if they had been of ns, they would, 110 doubt, have continued with us : but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us, (1 John, ii. 19.) '. • And, again, he forbids the church u!t... | |
| Thomas Boston - Man (Theology) - 1811 - 472 pages
...stock, by the quickening Spirit, 1 John ii. 19. They went out from is, but they were not of us ; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us." kftjth benefit is Growth in Grace. " Having nourishment ministered, they increase with the increase... | |
| Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1811 - 824 pages
...They went out from us ; but they were not of us : " for if they had been of us, no doubt they would " have continued with us ; but they went out, that " they might be made manifest, that they were not « all of us."2 P. ccv. Note. ' Election, &c.*! By coiling, in this exhortation/... | |
| Seth Williston - Presbyterian Church - 1812 - 252 pages
...of apostates. The apostle John, speaking of the antichrists of his time, 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." The whole force uf the apostle's argument, to prove that these... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1812 - 420 pages
...come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time- 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. But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.... | |
| Thomas Boston - Man (Theology) - 1812 - 508 pages
...their union with the life-giving stock, by the quickening Spirit, 1 John. ii. 19. " They went eut from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been...of us, they would no doubt have continued with us." A fifth benefit is growth in grace. " Having nourishment ministered, they increase with the increase... | |
| Gardiner Spring - Christian life - 1813 - 244 pages
...were somewhat multiplied even in those early days of the Christian Church. He eays, They went out Jrom 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. The true disciple endures to the end. Though he foresees that... | |
| Edward Dorr Griffin - Congregational churches - 1813 - 416 pages
...apostates in every age, and that sweeps off all these objections at a stroke : " They went out from us, but they were NOT OF us ; for if they had been...NO DOUBT have continued with us ; but they went out from us THAT THEY MIGHT BE MADE MANIFEST THAT THEY WERE NOT ALL OP us."* In other words, had they been... | |
| Presbyterianism - 1813 - 580 pages
...faithful, who shall st;il •*,.••• you, and keep you from evil. 1 John ii. 19. They went out from us, but they were not of us : for if they had been...would no doubt have continued with us : but they went our, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. III. g Matth. xxvi. 70. But he... | |
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