 | Thomas Greenwood - 1832
...try the spirits whether they are of God : because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God : Every spirit that...should come ; and even now already is it in the world. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them ; because greater is he that is in you, than... | |
 | University of Oxford - 1840
...perdition. 1 Gen. xlix. 6. » I Cor. vi. 14—17SERMON II. THE RELIGION OF ANTICHRIST. 1 JOHN iv. 3. " Every spirit that confesseth not that JESUS CHRIST...have heard that it should come, and even now already it is in the norld." ST. JOHN tells us in these words what the characteristic of the Antichrist should... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1833
...And this shews the propriety of suggesting the question before us. We have also the answer given : " Hereby know ye the Spirit of God : every spirit that...spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not of Godm." Here, then, is a plain test, by which the matter may be tried. Whoever,... | |
 | Samuel Hanson Cox - Society of Friends - 1833 - 686 pages
...Christ is come in the flesh, is of God. And every spirit lhat confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not of God : and this is that spirit...and even now already is it in the world." 1 John, 4 : 1-3. On this important passage, of the known and genuine words of the Holy Ghost, permit a few... | |
 | John Fletcher - Methodist Church - 1833
...of God. And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ [that is, that a mere man !] is come in the flesh, is not of God. And this is that spirit...have heard that it should come, and even now already it is in the world." Now, what a strange and uncouth phraseology is this, which, on the doctor's principles,... | |
 | David Meredith Reese - Society of Friends - 1834 - 211 pages
...inspired criterion, and selects, for this purpose, the following passage, from 1 John iv. 1, 3 : — " Hereby know ye, the Spirit of God. Every spirit that...should come, and even now already is it in the world." Now, there can be no objection to the criterion, by Quakerism itself; and, indeed, the following exposition... | |
 | 1834
...Epist. ii. 18. 22 ; iv. 3 ; 2 Epist. 7. In some of these passages false teachers are called Antichrists, and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ...heard that it should come ; and even now already is in the world. St. Paul calls Antichrist that man of tin, the son of perdition ; who opposeth and exalteth... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1834
...ii, 18. 22 ; iv. 3 ; 2 Epist. 7. In some of these passages false teacher» are called Antichrists, and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ...heard that it should come ; and even now already is in the world. St. Paul calls Antichrist that man of sin, the son of perdition ; who opposeth and exalteth... | |
 | John Mason Duncan - Creeds - 1834 - 262 pages
...of God ; and not to believe every 8pirit, because that false prophets have gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God ; every spirit that...spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God." True : but this is still a direction to the PEOPI<E ; and includes officers... | |
 | Thomas H. KINGDON - Baptism - 1834
...is made unto salvation." The apostle John speaks to the same effect when he says, " Hereby know we the spirit of God, every spirit that confesseth that...spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God." Nay, Christ himself, who witnessed a good confession before Pontius Pilate,... | |
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Hereby know ye the Spirit of God : every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God : and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of Antichrist, whereof... 
