| Gardiner Spring - Christian life - 1813 - 244 pages
...life of practical godliness as a decisive test of Christian character. A holy life is the grand mark of distinction between the children of God and the children of the devil. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: Whosoever doth not righteousness... | |
| Edward Dorr Griffin - Congregational churches - 1813 - 416 pages
...God are holy, (in some measure,) as He is holy : " Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin. — In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil." " The good seed are the children of the kingdom, but the tares {[FALSE PROFESSORS,] are the children... | |
| 1819 - 492 pages
...the broad boundary line between the kingdom of Christ, and the dark dominions of spiritual death. " In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he who loveth not his brother." In the household... | |
| Hervey Wilbur - Bible - 1814 - 184 pages
...kcepeth them that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and manifest myself to him. In this the children of GOD are manifest : and the children of the devil : whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of Gojo, neither he that loveth not his brother. We know... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1845 - 496 pages
...ye know that God is righteous, ye know that he that doeth righteousness is born of Him," and that " in this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the Devil ; whosoever doeth not righteousness, is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother." " We know... | |
| William Jay - Sermons - 1814 - 552 pages
...of men is fully set in them to do evil. — EccLESIASTES viii. 11. SERMON XVIH. Page 355. ASSURANCE. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil : whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. — 1 JOHN.... | |
| Matthew Mead - Christian life - 1815 - 244 pages
...Nay, the Spirit of God putteth this as a eharacteristical distinction between saints and sinners, " In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil ; whosoever doth not righteousness, is not of God, neither he thatloveth not his brother."f By brethren... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1815 - 398 pages
...rightcous, ye know that everyone who doeth rightcousness is born of Лип." 1 John, ii. 2, 3, 5, 9, 10, 29. ^'In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whosoever docth not rightcousness is not of God, ncither he that lovcth not his broth- ' er. We know... | |
| George BUGG - 1816 - 188 pages
...of the truly regenerate, or those " who are born of God." For the very next verse says expressly, " In this the children of God are MANIFEST, and the children of the Devil." And the text . in Matt, xviii. 1-3. is addressed, in so mang words, particularly to Christ's disciples.... | |
| Noah Worcester - Pacifism - 1816 - 814 pages
...darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes ?" Again, " In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil : whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. For this... | |
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