Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 John 2:19
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1 John2:19
19 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 .
Sincere and living Christians are so strongly held in with Christ, and the truly Christian Community, by an Union, and Bond of Life, and by sense of Pleasures, which thereupon they find in that holy Communion, with the Expectation which their lively Faith gives them of eternal Life at last, that there is no doubt of their continuance.
Others that are Christians, upon external Inducements alter as these do, and are permitted to do so, that the difference may appear between true and counterfeit ones, 1 Cor. 11.19.
Marginal references: Deut. 13.13. Psal. 41.9. Acts 20.30.; 1 Cor. 11.19.
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