| John Wesley - 1796 - 666 pągines
...fociety, and the comfort of mankind. The contrary is happily evinced by the Apoftle, •where he fays, " If GOD fo loved us, we 'ought alfo to love «' one another ;" in which words, allufton is made to the incarnation of the Son of God, as the great inftance of... | |
| 1779 - 688 pągines
...favour beg forths f<ikc of Jslus Chrill our Lord. Amen. we ought alfo to love one another. No mart hath feen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, ancj his love is perfected in us. Hereby know we that we dwdl in him, and he in us,, becaufe... | |
| 1793 - 450 pągines
...benevolence. This, he obfervts, is not Chriftian charity, which has a nligioM motive for its obje£l. ' If God fo loved us, we ought alfo to love one another * ; a motive at once rational, pure, and permanent. THE THEORY OF RAIN. BY JAMES HUTTON, MDFRS Sec.... | |
| Samuel Hoole - 1786 - 348 pągines
...•perijh, but have everlafting life. And how obvious, how forcible is the inference of the apoftle, Beloved, if GOD fo loved us, •we ought alfo to love one another *. Let us remember, that our eternal, is infeparably connected with our temporal happinefs $ for ill-will,... | |
| Samuel Disney - 1788 - 464 pągines
...not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and fent his fon to be the propitiation for our fins." " Beloved, if God fo loved us, we ought alfo to love one another." But we will further confider the nature of thefe divine precepts, as productive of the higheft poflible... | |
| 1789 - 754 pągines
...benevolence. This, he obferve*, is not chriftiaa charity which has a religious motive for its object. ' If God fo loved us, we ought alfo to love one another' (the text, i John, iv. ll.)- A motive at once rational, pure, and permanent. In pleading for the benevolent... | |
| Richard Watson - 1791 - 500 pągines
...God." Ver. 10, it, — "God lent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Beloved, if God fo loved us, we ought alfo to love one another." Ver. 12, — " If we love one another God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us," that is,... | |
| Samuel Hopkins - 1793 - 640 pągines
...from his exhorting them to imitate God in this his difinterefted benevolence, by loving as he does. "Beloved, if God fo loved us, we ought alfo to love one another. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us." It being thus evident... | |
| Robert Nares - 1794 - 366 pągines
...that we loved God, but that he loved '' us, and fent his Son to be the propitiation " for our fins. Beloved, if God fo loved *' us, we ought alfo to love one another *." Here the principle, in a manner, reacts upon us, and, having gained a firm foundation for a real... | |
| 1795 - 316 pągines
...he that loveth not his hrother, " whom he hath iec-n, how can he love God whom he *' hath not feen? No man hath feen God at any Time. If " we lov.e one...another, God dwelleth in us, and his love " is perfected in-us. Thus fA<r heloved difciple, who undertt Jiood the great myjkties of divine love, bath expreffed... | |
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