 | Robert Lowth (bp. of London.) - 1834 - 524 pages
...world, that we are not of it. John, speaking of the separatists of his days, says, " they went out from us, but they were not of us ; for if they had been...might be made manifest, that they were not all of us." It is one thing to profess to be of a church, and another to be of it indeed ; but it is the wheat... | |
 | Mary Jane Graham - Election (Doctrine of)s - 1834 - 142 pages
...after the reception of God's grace, as the beloved apostle has instructed us to do. "They went out from us, but they were not of us, for if they had been...might be made manifest, that they were not all of us." 2 Jesus giveth unto his sheep " eternal life ; and they shall never perish; neither shall any man pluck... | |
 | Henry Gauntlett - 1835 - 908 pages
...the passage recorded by the apostle John is a sufficient answer on the subject. "They went out from us, but they were not of us : for if they had been...might be made manifest that they were not all of us." It has been farther urged, that some have actually fallen away, as David, Solomon, and others, noticed... | |
 | 1835 - 454 pages
...truly, in the proper, spiritual sense, apply those words of the Apostle to them : * They went out from us, but they were not of us : for if they had been...might be made manifest that they were not all of us.' However, they have been too successful in drawing disciples after them ; and though they have been... | |
 | Samuel Eyles Pierce - 1835 - 606 pages
...that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. So says the apostle. They went out from us, but they were not of us ; for if they had been...might be made manifest that they were not all of us. This was their end for their going out, but it was the Lord's end in thrusting them out, and it might... | |
 | Joseph Jowett - 1835 - 344 pages
...ministry of Christ himself. But see how their case is explained by the Apostle John : " They went out from us, but they were not of us : for if they had been...be made manifest, ,that they were not all of us." 7 Here was the difference between Judas Iscariot and Peter. You need not be told why it was, that Peter... | |
 | James Forrest (A.M.) - Trinity - 1836 - 130 pages
...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...might be made manifest that they were not all of us.' f ' Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ Г \ This is antichrist. That homicidal... | |
 | John BROWNE (Curate of Trinity Church, Cheltenham.) - 1836 - 520 pages
...shows at the same time how certainly the true believer will abide. " They went out," he says, " from us, but they were not of us ; for if they had been...that they might be made manifest that they were not of us."1 But does the idea of the believer's perseverance < 1 John ii. 19. seem to render this exhortation... | |
 | 1837 - 556 pages
...known him that is from the beginning. i he apostle cautioneth CHAP. III. against antichristian errors I have written unto you, young men, because ye are...they would no doubt have continued with us : but they rvent out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. 20 But ye have an unction... | |
 | Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 630 pages
...already come ; whereby it is made evident, that this is that last time, which was foretold of. II. 19. They went out from us, but they were not of us...might be made manifest that they were not all of us. They went out from our communion ; not so much in respect of place, as of doctrine : they were formerly... | |
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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. 
