 | 1824 - 400 pages
...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 had they been of us they would no doubt have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that they were... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 608 pages
...the exercise of faith, should forsake them for that which is nothing. ' They went out from us, but they were not of us ; for had they been of us, they would have continued with us : had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.' This therefore is the true reason... | |
 | 1841 - 472 pages
...vile ;'' " the bondwoman and her son" are cast out, as saith the apostle, " They went out from us, but they were not of us ; for had they been of us, they would, no doubt, have continued with us ; but they went out that they might be made manifest that they were... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 556 pages
...abroad in the world, and they for the most part apostates, he adds in the first Epist. chap. ii. 19. ' They went out from us because 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 ^ey might... | |
 | 1849 - 1188 pages
...wax stronger and stronger. It puts into the mouth ef the Church, in relation to all apostates, '«. They went out from us, because they were not of us ; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us." Christ says that he knows his sheep. This... | |
 | Elisha Coles - 1831 - 314 pages
...of iniquity. Answ. The objection has an answer sufficient made ready to its hand, in 1 John 2: 1&. " They went out from. us, because they were not of us: for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us." Seeming faith may really be lost,... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 582 pages
...man have forsaken the Church, they have only proved thereby that they never truly belonged to it ; " they went out from us because they were not of us ; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with usb." Every true believer has been... | |
 | William Allen - 1836 - 368 pages
...unsound men or persons would have gone away from Friends, as those did formerly, of whom John said, "They went out from us, because 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... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1833 - 702 pages
...temptation fall away, Luke viii. 13. Does it appear by their apostasy that they never were sincere? Yes : O ;7o k _ 4ޥ #ﺴ l 'K -vo?J O S\T ϝ n if they had been of us, they would DO doubt have continued with us, 1 John ii. 19. Bat shall any that... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1838 - 604 pages
...course after having been shewn its danger, prove them to be among those of whom St. John speaks: " They went out from us because they were not of us ; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us : therefore they went out from us,... | |
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They went out from us because 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. 
