 | Edward Hawarden - 1728 - 350 pages
...Anti-Chrifis over and over, and of whom he fays, [2] even now there are many Anti-ChriJls, 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 -, thefe Reformers, I fay, were Chriftians, but no Part of the Holy Catholick Church, which was then,... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1755 - 318 pages
...kept by' the power of God through f<fith * unto falvation.' i John ii. 1 9, ' They went ' out from us, but they were not of us : for if ' they had been...continued with us : but they went out, that ' they might be made manifefr, that they were ' not all of us.' Chap. iii. 9. ' Whofoevef is born ' of God, doth... | |
 | Richard Elliot - 1764 - 574 pages
...fake : Of fuch the Apoftle John fpeaks thus ; they went out from ust 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, t'hat they might be made manifejl, that they were not ALL of us \\. And thefe perfons, becauie they were members of... | |
 | Assembly of divines confess. and catech - 1765 - 626 pages
...God's vords : ye therefore hear them not, bícaufe ye are not of God. i John ii. 19. They went out from us, but they were not of us : for if they had been...they would no doubt have continued with us ; but they Tent out, that they might be made maaifefl, that they were not all of us. VII. r Mat. xi. 2j. At that... | |
 | John Witherspoon, William Shenstone - 1765 - 326 pages
...faid to believe in hips, than in Chrift. " but JUSTIFICATION'. 73 " 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 manifeft that they were not all of us*." But this it not all ; for the reception of the doctrine... | |
 | Samuel Shaw - 1769 - 590 pages
...who a little before had ieparated from the church. To this the apoftle replies, " They went out from us, but they *' were not of us; for if they had been...continued with " us : but they went out, that they might be " made manifeft, that they were not all of us." Thefe men were never true. church members. They... | |
 | John Flavel - 1770 - 528 pages
...dilloyal fubjects do in the commonwealth. Of thefe the apoftle fpeaks, t John ii. 19. " They went out from us, but they were not of '< us ; for it they had been...have '' continued with us; but they went out, that it might be " made maaifeft they were not all of us." Sincere Chriftianity holds faft the ioul by a... | |
 | Assembly of divines confess. and catech, Church of Scotland - 1773 - 570 pages
...the Lord is faithful, who ftiidl ftablimyou,and keep you from evil, i Johnii. 19. They went out from us, but they were not of us : for if they had been...have continued with us : but they went out, that they and grieve his Holy * Spirit i; come to be deprived «f fome meafurc of their graces and comforts /... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1786 - 458 pages
...had generally retired of their own accord, as may be colleAed from i John ii. 19. 'They went out from us, but they 'were not of us ;for if they had been...continued with us-, but they went out, that they might be made manife/i that they were not all of us. That thefe perfons were Gnoftics, is evident from the... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1787 - 470 pages
...their union with the life- giving ftock, by the quickening Spirit, ijohnii. 19. " 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." A Fifth benefit is growth in grace. " Having nourifiiment miniftred, (< they increafe with the rncreafe... | |
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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. 
