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and hath given us an understanding, that we may "know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ."1

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the true God, and Peternal life.

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21 Little children, 'keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

"that we may know the true God, and may be in his true Sou.

m LUKE, xxiv. 45: Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures.

" See on JOHN, xvii. 3.

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• ISA. ix. 6: Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. do. xliv. 6: Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. do. liv. 5: For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; the God of the whole earth shall he be called. JOHN, XX. 28: Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. ACTS, xx. 28: Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the Church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. ROM. ix. 5: Who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. 1 TIM. iii. 16: God was manifest in the flesh. TIT. ii. 13: Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.. HEB. i. 8: But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

P Ver. 11, 12, 13.

9 See on 1 COR. X. 14.

Proxy act, hon for this people, nerier lit 1

aaf new pha by Shala, neither make intercession to me: fr Mr. V. Bray not then for this peopleVip ý #1, méh, phut That in the time that they cry unto me fre MAY SANA. Am. xyz. F's Then said the Load unto me, Pray time fire toy & patrple for them good. do. xv. 1, 2: Then said Phim Phem to make me, 'Thomugh Moses and Samuel stood before thing for Hey Hind could not be toward this people: cast them tout but my might, and let them go forth.-Such as are for death,

deaths and much as are for the sword, to the sword; and Buchet for the famine, to the famine. JOHN, xvii. 9: I pray for them. I peny not for the world, but for them which thou feed green mis; for they are thine.

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and hath "given us an understanding, that we may "know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ.11

the true God, and Peternal life.

• This is

21 Little children, "keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

"that we may know the true God, aud may be in his true Sou.

m LUKE, xxiv. 45: Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures.

" See on JOHN, xvii. 3.

:

• ISA. ix. 6: Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. do. xliv. 6: Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. do. liv. 5: For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; the God of the whole earth shall he be called. JOHN, XX. 28: Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. ACTs, xx. 28: Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the Church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. Rom. ix. 5: Who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. 1 TIM. iii. 16: God was manifest in the flesh. TIT. ii. 13: Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. HEB. i. 8: But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

P Ver. 11, 12, 13.

4 See on 1 Cor. x. 14.

THE SECOND EPISTLE OF

John.

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THIS epistle is supposed by some to have been addressed to a church, but by others to a particular woman of eminence in the church; her name according to some being Eluta, and according to others Kuria. That it was addressed to a particular woman seems most probable; and which of these two words was the name, and which the epithet, or whether both of them be not epithets, is of little consequence.

1 He exhorteth a certain honourable matron, with her children, to persevere in Christian love and belief; & lest they lose the reward of their former profession: 10 and to have nothing to do with those seducers that bring not the true doctrine of Christ Jesus.

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A. D. 50. THE elder unto the

elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not

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a See on 1 TIM. v. 1.

1 PET. v. 13: The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you.

Ver. 3. JOHN, viii. 32: And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. GAL. ii. 5, 14: To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the Gospel might continue with you. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews? do. iii. 1: O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? do. v. 7: Who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? EPH. i. 13: In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the Gospel of your salvation. COL. i. 5: For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the Gospel. 2 THES. ii. 13: God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth. 1 TIM. ii. 4: Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth. HEB. X. 26: If we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth. JAMES, i. 18: Of his

I only, but also all they that have known the truth

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2 For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.

3d Grace be3 with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

4 I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.

5 And now I beseech thee, lady, "not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

6 And this is commandments. That, as ye have should walk in it.

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love, that we walk after his This is the commandment, heard from the beginning, ye

I who know, Pu. 2 by reason of the truth. Pu. 3 Gr. shall be. A. V, 4some of thy children. Pu.

own will begat he us with the word of truth. do. v. 19: Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him. 1 PET. i. 22: Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit. 2 PET. ii. 12: I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and he established in the present truth. do. ii. 2: Many shall follow their pernicious ways, by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of, 1 JOHN, iii. 18: My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. 3 JOHN, i. 3, 8: The Gospel is called the truth in divers other places. See on GAL. ii. 5.

d See on Roм. i. 7.

• Ver. 1.

f 3 JOHN, 3.

8 See on JOHN, xiii. 34.

h See on JOHN, xiii. 34.

i See on JOHN, xiv. 15.

* JOHN, ii. 24: Let that therefore abide in you, which we have heard from the beginning.