 | Jonathan Edwards - Church membership - 1790 - 252 pages
...thing is evident by I John ii. i9. "They ••' went out from us, becaufe they were not of us : If " they had been of us, they would no doubt have " continued with us." The words naturally fuggeft .and imply, that thofe profeiTmg Chriftians, who at lait proved falfe,... | |
 | Benjamin Jenks - Faith - 1793 - 496 pages
...They went out from us ; ( faith " the apoftle, i John ii. 1 9.) but they were not of '' us: for if they had been of us, they would, no " doubt, have continued with us." And though we muft endure to the end, that we may be faved : yet the fuppofitions of their going to... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1799 - 414 pages
...in the marriage covenant, 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." Being carelefs of communion with Chrift, fpeaks that the heart is not with him, but with other lovers.... | |
 | Robert MacCulloch - 1800 - 688 pages
...the apolUe John, (i Ep. ii. 19.) we fay, '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 manifeftthat they were not all of us.' — Take heed then, and beware of thofe who are enemies to the... | |
 | John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - Presbyterian Church - 1800 - 620 pages
...may fay of them as the apoltle John fays, " 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 tnat they might be made manifeft that they were " not all of us."f But this is not all ; for the reception... | |
 | Tracts - 1800 - 276 pages
...an-erroneous judgment of their charaŁters. " They " went out from us becaufe they were not of us; if " they had been of us, they would no doubt have '' continued with us*." They either did not underftand their principles; or they were perplexed with difficulties which perhaps... | |
 | 310 pages
...apostle John — " They wentout from us, but they were not of us ; for if they had been of mi, they would have continued with us : but they •went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of oa." (Uohnii. 19.) They were not excommunicated — but they went... | |
 | Henry Kett - Bible - 1801 - 442 pages
...j whereby we know that it is the lajt 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 manifcjl that they were not all of us. Who is a liar, but he that denieth that Jefus is the Chrijif... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1802 - 422 pages
...properly his fervants : I 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...that they might be made manifeft, that they were not of us."— Confider, 2. That they who are his, are his fervants in a moft ftrict fenfe, as being wholly... | |
 | John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - Presbyterian Church - 1802 - 636 pages
...apoftle John fays, '* They went out from us, " but they were not of us ; for if they had been of us, <k they would no doubt have continued with us, but they...might be made manifeft that they " were not all of us."f But tins is not all ; for the reception of the doclrine of imputed righteoufnefs is not merely... | |
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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. 
