 | Edward Dorr Griffin - Congregational churches - 1813 - 416 pages
...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 OF us."* In other... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, English - 1813 - 498 pages
...never partakers of the first principles of true religion, according to this saying of an a [jostle, If they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with «s, 1 John ii. 19. In this manner we reply to the difficulties, which some passages of Scripture seem... | |
 | William Clayton - Sermons, English - 1814 - 420 pages
...many who believed for a time, fall away. " 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 though... | |
 | William Jay - Sermons - 1814 - 552 pages
...false, because one of them was a devil ? " 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 it might be made " manifest they were jQot all of us." But, alas ! the falling... | |
 | Church and state - 1814 - 550 pages
...td their going out, they were not real and true, bu-t only nominal members of the church—-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. (I Johnii. 19-)... | |
 | William Jay - Sermons - 1814 - 596 pages
...£dse, because one of them was a devil? "They went 4i 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 it might be made " manifest they were not all of us." But, alas ! the falling... | |
 | Elias Boudinot - Bible - 1815 - 600 pages
...antichrist who denieth the Father and the Son."f " 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."* You now behold... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1815 - 660 pages
...great. And so they go out from us, that they may be made manifest that they were not of us: for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us. Look therefore to this great, important business, and give all diI , PREFACE. ligenceto make your calling... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 572 pages
...this doctrine, and that is in 1 John ii. 19. They went out from us, hit 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 bt made manifest that they were not all of us ; for the un•... | |
 | Robert Hall - Christianity - 1815 - 260 pages
...Hence of apostates, the apostle thus speaks: 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... | |
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Hence we learn what verdict to pass and give in, concerning those men that decay and fall off from the Lord. They never had oil in the vessel; never had a dram of grace in their heart. Thus 1 John ii. 19, " If they had been of us, they would no doubt... 
