 | 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... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...God's words : ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. 1 John ii. 1 9. They went oat 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. VII. r Matth. xi. 25. At that time Jesus answered and said,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Joseph Bellamy - 1811 - 556 pages
...their converts actually separated from their churches; numbers of their graceless converts, 1 mean. 1 John ii. 19. They went out from us, but they were...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
