...God. Thi* sign the apostle gives us in the 2d and 3d verses : " Hereby know ye the Spirit of God ; and every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is...spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God." This implies a confessing not only that there was such a person who appeared...

...substantiate them. Alas! for them, the whole proof upon which these charges are founded, is 1 John iv. 3 : " Every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ...antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come." From this passage Mr. P. argues, that the " expression 4 come in the flesh,' intimates that he might...

...Opera, vol. ip 125. t Lardner's Hist. of Heretics, p. 17. not that Jesus Christ is come in the Jlesh is not of God, and this is that spirit of Antichrist,...should come, and even now already is it in the .world. For this was the first corruption of the Christian religion by the maxims of heathen philosophy, and...

...that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh; this is a deceiver and an antichrist.' John, Epis. ii. 7.—' And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ...should come, and even now already is it in the world.' John iv. 2-3. Can any thing be plainer than that the mysterious union of God and man, in the person...

...try the spirits, whether they be of God : because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God : Every spirit that...even now already is it in the world. 1 John iv. 1 — 3. Many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the...

...with the Divine? — the blood being called the blood of God, because united to Him in One person. • "Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is...come; and even now already is it in the world."§ — Yes, seeking to tear from the firmament the Sun of righteousness, and surround our race with the...

...what they had taught concerning Christ. " Hereby know ye the * Uohn ii. 22, 23. tl Cor. Ui. 10— 15. spirit of God : every spirit that confesseth that...of God — and this is that spirit of Antichrist. — We are of God ; he that knoweth God, heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us — hereby...

...died. To this heresy, it is supposed, the apostle John alludes in his first epistle, where he says, " Hereby know ye the spirit of God : every spirit that...whereof ye have heard that it should come, and even now is already in the world." Though few, if any at this day, deny that Christ had a human body, yet some...

...and doom of Antichrist ? And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the Uesh, is not of GOD : and this is that spirit of antichrist,...come -, and even now already is it in the world.- Who is a liar hut he that denieth that Jesns is the Christ ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father...

..." confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh 1 1 John, ii. 22, 23. i 1 Cor. iii. 10—15. " is of God : and every spirit that confesseth not "...of " God : and this is that spirit of Antichrist, — We " are of God ; he that knoweth God heareth us ; " he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby...