 | Jean Calvin - 1816 - 524 pages
...stronger argument than that of John, " If God so loved us, we ought also to love one another." " In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil;"(/>) hereby the children of light, by their abiding in love, are distinguished from the children of darkness:... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1817 - 292 pages
...For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children...not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. 1 John iii. 8. 10. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them ; because greater is he that... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1817 - 294 pages
...For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children...not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. 1 John iii. 8. 10. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them ; because greater is he that... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1817 - 290 pages
...For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children...righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother—1 John iii. 8. 10. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1817 - 530 pages
...commit sin: for his seed remaineth in him, " and he cannot sin, because he is born of God: in this " the children of God are manifest, and the children...devil; whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of " God."J If therefore any man be born of God, whether in baptism, or not, " his seed," (" the incorruptible... | |
 | 1817 - 680 pages
...commit sin ; for his seed abideth in him : and he cannot sin, because he is born 10 of God. In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil : whosoever doeth not righteousness, 11 is not of God; nor he who loveth not his brother. For this is the charge1 which ye heard from the... | |
 | 1817 - 610 pages
...Hence they are catted the children of God, as a terra of distinction. "In this," says the aposlle John, •'the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil." On the same principle, our Savior denies that certain Jews, who, notwithstanding their professed attachment... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 538 pages
...between the children of God and the children of the devil, in ver. 10. of the same chapter? IK THIS the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Speaking of a holy, and a wicked practice, as may be seen in all the context: as ver. 3. Every man... | |
 | Thornhill Kidd - 1817 - 804 pages
...as are indulging the lusts and doing the works of the wicked one, they are his children. " In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil." But let us observe more attentively what this high privilege denotes — " the thildren of God." Of... | |
 | sir George Pretyman Tomline (bart, bp. of Winchester.) - 1817 - 628 pages
...— p. 62. " We will not bear with those who put a wrong interpretation upon this passage, ' In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil (u) ; ' as if some men were saved, and others perish by nature ; for we come into this holy adoption,... | |
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In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. 
