 | John Smalley - 1803 - 454 pages
...destroy them ; when, as a roaring lion, he goeth about seeking whom he may devour. 1 John v. 18, " He that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not." They are kept from the reigning power of sin : Rom. vi. 14, " Sin shall not have dominion over you... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 666 pages
...would in effect be a transgressor ofall§. In short, He that committeth sin, is of the devil\\ ; but He that is begotten of God, keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him 6. He " that does not know what it is, to overcome this world, and to place his happiness in another,"... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 676 pages
...would in effect be a transgressor ofall§. In short, He that committeth sin, is of the devil\\; but He that is begotten of God, keepeth himself, and that wicked one tomhet'h him not*J\. 6. He " that does not know what it is, to overcome this world, and to place his... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1806 - 270 pages
...sinneth not as other men do, delightfully, greedily, customarily, resolvedly, impenitently, &c. " But he that is begotten of God, keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not." The glorious victory that the people of God had over Pharaoh, Exod. xiv. and his great host was a figure... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 514 pages
...committeth sin is of the devil, chap. v. 18. We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not, but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. John xv. 14. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. : If one member only be corrupt,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1803 - 572 pages
...of God, overcometh the world." Verse 18. " We know that whosoever is born of God, sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God, keepeth himself; and that wicked one toucheth him not." So it is exceeding apparent, that knowing God, and being of God, and in God, having this hope in him,... | |
 | John Wesley - 1811 - 468 pages
...sin, because he is born of God." Once more, " We know, that whosoever is born of God sinneth not: but he that is begotten of God, keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not," v. 18. 6. He that is, by faith, born of God, sinneth not, 1, by any habitual sin ; for all habitual... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 pages
...therefore they are always comfortable; and that no such temptations befall the real saints of God, for, " He that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not, J John v. 18. The blood of Christ cleanseth them from all sin, and he that is born of God sinneth not,... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1811 - 408 pages
...from us, because they were not *' of us." " We know that whosoever is born of " God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God, " keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him " not." 1 The persons spoken of, as going out from the apostles, and sinning unto death; had, beyond all doubt,... | |
 | John Wesley - 1811 - 450 pages
...of God." And those in the fifth, verse 18, " We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not. But he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not." 6. Indeed, it is said, this means only, He sinneth not wilfully ; or he doth not commit sin habitually;... | |
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This is again repeated in the end of that Epistle, together with these words, He that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. As these words seem to import that a true Christian sins not, so in the Epistle to the Hebrews... 
