A34689:1860
A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…
A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first Epistle general of John by ... John Cotton ...A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first Epistle generall of John by ... John Cotton ...
London: printed by M.S. for Thomas Parkhurst, 1658
A COMMENTARY UPON The First Epistle general OF JOHN. › Chapter 2 › Verse 19
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2 In their fellowship, they declined from them in communion of Ordinances, and mutual help, Heb. 10.25.
They went out from (us) from whom? who are they from us? Apostles, and Ministers, from us, that is, from Old men, Young men, and Children, they went out from all the true Members of the Church.
They were not of us.
That is, they were never true members of our Body, they were with us, and amongst us, but they were never of us, 1 Joh. 4.4 5. as the Children of God are in the world, yet not of the world, their minds are not on this world, their inheritance is not in this world; so on the contrary, the Children of the Church are in the Church, but not of the Church.
That is, they were never true members of our Body, they were with us, and amongst us, but they were never of us,