 | Joseph Bellamy - 1811 - 556 pages
...from their churches; numbers of their graceless converts, 1 mean. 1 John ii. 19. They went out from us, but they were not of us : for ij they had been...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... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 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 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."* These declarations... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1811 - 472 pages
...stock, by the quickening Spirit, 1 John ii. 19. They went out from is, but they were not of us ; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us." kftjth benefit is Growth in Grace. " Having nourishment ministered, they increase with the increase... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1812 - 420 pages
...come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time- 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. But ye have an unction... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 508 pages
...their union with the life-giving stock, by the quickening Spirit, 1 John. ii. 19. " They went eut from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been...of us, they would no doubt have continued with us." A fifth benefit is growth in grace. " Having nourishment ministered, they increase with the increase... | |
 | Seth Williston - 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 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." The whole force... | |
 | 1813 - 580 pages
...faithful, who shall st;il •*,.••• you, and keep you from evil. 1 John ii. 19. 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 our, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. III. g Matth. xxvi.... | |
 | Gardiner Spring - 1813 - 244 pages
...were somewhat multiplied even in those early days of the Christian Church. He eays, They went out Jrom 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. The true disciple... | |
 | Edward Dorr Griffin - 1813 - 416 pages
...apostates in every age, and that sweeps off all these objections at a stroke : " 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 from us THAT THEY MIGHT BE MADE MANIFEST THAT THEY WERE NOT ALL OP us."* In other... | |
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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. 
