| Joseph Bellamy - 1830 - 314 pages
...if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected : hereby know we that we are in him."f Ther. What is the best method a true saint can take, to maintain... | |
| Eliza Cheap - 1830 - 294 pages
...whosoever He loveth, He causeth to return His love. And it is written in the second chapter of 1st John, " Whoso keepeth His word, in him, verily, is the love of God perfected. Hereby know we that we are in him." What I desire, my dear young friends, to convey to you in this... | |
| John Stedman - 1830 - 364 pages
...St. John is even more explicit : " hereby do we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected 5 hereby know we that we are in him." Let us, therefore, comfort ourselves and one another, with the... | |
| Ralph Wardlaw - 1830 - 350 pages
...the truth is not in him." —And how do we " know that we are in him ?" The answer is the same—" Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected:—hereby know we that we are in him." 4 Passing over other similar expressions, let me request... | |
| William Shewen - 1830 - 154 pages
...knoweth him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whosoever keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected; hereby know we, that we are in him. He that saith he abideth in him, ought himself also to walk, even... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1831 - 666 pages
...commandments : 1 John ii. 4, 5. " He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him ; but whoso keepeth his...word, in him verily is the love of God perfected." The commandment of Christ, to which the apostle has. especial respect, when he here speaks of our keeping... | |
| John Wesley - 1831 - 466 pages
...his first epistle. " Hereby we know, that we do know him, if we keep his commandments," chap ii. 3. " Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected ; hereby know we that we are in him," that we are indeed the children of God, ver. 5. If ye know, that... | |
| 1831 - 982 pages
...terms : it is not possible for language to express more entire conformity to and union with Christ : " aven, " of the times and the seasons ye :" " Ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things :" " If that which ye have heard... | |
| Ralph Wardlaw - 1831 - 358 pages
...the truth is not in him." — And how do we " know that we are in him ?" The answer is the same — " Whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected : — hereby know we that we are in him." Passing over other similar expressions, let me request the... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1832 - 834 pages
...if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him : but whoso keepeth his...word, in him verily is the love of God perfected. Hereby know we that we are in himb." (Some of the other passages referred to may also be cited.) And... | |
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