...talk'd with God." , You then had power not to commit sin. You found the Apostle's words strictly true, " he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not." But those whom you took to be experienced Christians, telling you, " This was only the time of your...

...kept by the mighty power of God through faith unto salvation, so we are told too in 1 John 5.18. that he that is begotten of God, keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not ; he keeps himself from those deadly, mortal touches which would endanger his precious life ; that...

...sin : and there is a sin not unto death. 18 We know that whosoeveris born of God sinneth not ; bat he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. 19 And we know that we are of God, and thé whole world Jieth in wickedness. 20 And we know that thé...

...born 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 loucheth him not." So it is exceeding apparent, that knowing God, and being of God, and in God, having...

...out 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 " onetouchethhimnot."* The persons spoken of, as going out from the apostles, and sinning unto death;...

...epistle, fifth chapter, and eighteenth verse, says, 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. As this is said by the Spirit of God, it is true. But in what sense is it true ? Certainly not in the...

...for he is born of God. 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 totwheth him not. As these words seem to import that a true Christian sins not, so in the H'-b. vi....

...i«irro» : ax " This is translated, " We know that whosoever i* bora of God sinneth not ; but he that M begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not." It would be tedious to allege more than a few instances of the use, and of the inadequate translation...

...and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." " 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." The same truth, under a most instructive variation of aspect, is stated by St. Paul. St. John tella us,...

...Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not." — " And 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." Let Christian humility be enforced by no arguments that shall tend to make the hearer forgetful of...