 | Francis Ellaby - Baptism - 1838 - 272 pages
...with Jesus. To these, or such persons, St. John evidently alludes, when he 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." (1 John ii. 19.) Again, it may be said, that nothing can be plainer. Certain persons had been numbered... | |
 | Henry Edward Manning (card, abp. of Westminster.) - 1838 - 212 pages
...working without and around the Church, and within it only so long as undiscovered. " They went out 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 St. John ii. 19; or if they did not spontaneously go out, they were thrust out and branded... | |
 | John Newton - Theology - 1839 - 510 pages
...the teachers and doctrines they had once owned, has observed to this purpose: — "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," 1 John ii. 19. In a word, there were too many pretenders ; some things amiss where the heart and views... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1839 - 558 pages
...Thess. iii. 3. But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. 1 John ii. 19. They went out from us, but they were not of us...continued with us : but they went out, that they might be mnde manifest, that they were not all of us. John x. 28. They shall never perish. 1 Thess. v. 23, 24.... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1840 - 536 pages
...of God abideth for ever. LECTURE LXI. A WARNING AGAINST FALLING FROM THE TRUTH. 1 JOHN ii. 18—25. 18. Little children, it is the last time: and as ye...might be made manifest that they were not all of us. St. Paul had warned the Thessalonians to let no man persuade them " that the day of Christ is at hand."... | |
 | Bible - 1840 - 456 pages
...of one mind ; no diversity of thought or purpose exists ; all is hostility to Christ and his saints. 19. They went out from us, but they were not of us...might be made manifest that they were not all of us. It seems from John's declaration in this verse, that the Antichrists to whom he had just alluded, were... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1835 - 380 pages
...mentioned that many antichrists were in the world who were generally apostates, adds : " 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 ;" — as if he had said, ' Whatever plausible appearances they make, they prove, by becoming apostates,... | |
 | John Goodwin - Redemption - 1840 - 774 pages
...the injury of fathering the common doctrine of perseverance upon it, is this : " 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," 1 John ii. 19. From hence tlus inference is drawn up; that they who are of the saints, ie of the number... | |
 | Daniel Isaac, John Burdsall - 1840 - 548 pages
...cause is stated by the apostle John ; and he attaches blame to the dissentients. "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." (1 John ii. 19.) Alienation of affection was the seat of the disease which produced such baneful effects... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1840 - 468 pages
...God's words, ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. 1 John ii. 19.—They went out from us, but they were not of us ; for if they had been...that they might be made manifest that they were not ull of us. Here it is necessary to observe, that if we suppose the word ELECT to be employed as designating... | |
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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. 
