Quaker Bible Index

(1 Jn 1:1-3)

[Other texts citing John 1:1-3: JN1:161f (John 1:1), SBD 13 (Heb 6:5)]

HPS 52 (Sarah Blackborow, 1658): What I have seen and known, heard and felt, that I declare unto you [1 Jn 1: 1,3], and my witness is true

RBA 8 (1678): For what I have written comes more from my heart than from my head; what I have heard with the ears of my soul and seen with my inward eyes and my hands of handled of the Word of Life, and what hath been inwardly manifested to me of the things of God, that do I declare [1 Jn 1:1-3];

(1 Jn 1:1)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 1:1: GF6:232 under (1 Jn 2:7), GF7:13 (John 12:6), GF7:114 (Mat 12:25f), GF8:183 (Rom 3:27), GF8:213 (Mar 9:50), MFU 210 (John 5:24), JN1:161f (John 1:1), IP3:34 (John 6:68), IP3:338 (John 9:30), SBD 66f (John 1:4)]

GF3:136 (1659): Again, the spiritual man discerneth and judgeth all things [1 Cor 2:15KG]. And as face answers face [Prov 27:19], so doth the spirit of the Lord in man. And man may discern by the spirit of the Lord God where ... the soul is living, ... and where it is in the death.... The holy men of God discern it, and ye being ignorant of this, manifest that ye have neither salt, nor savour [Mat 5:13], nor handling, nor tasting, nor seeing, nor feeling [1 Jn 1:1].

GF6: 231 (1683): And John saith, "In the beginning was the word of life, which they had heard...." [confl w John 1:1]

GF7: 235 (1662): So the milk which cometh from the word [1 Pet 2:2], is it by which thou must grow up in the things of God; and this keeps the eye pure, and nourisheth thee up in the word of wisdom [1 Cor 12:8], word of life [Phil 2:16, 1 Jn 1:1], word of patience [Rev 3:10] ....

GF8:79 (1675): I was sent out by the Lord God, in his eternal light and power, to preach the word of life [1 Jn 1:1], which was before the word of death

GF8: 233 (1683): And it is also the word of reconciliation [2 Cor 5:17], the word of power [Heb 1:3], the word of wisdom [1 Cor 12:8], and the word of life [1 Jn 1:1], and the word of salvation [Acts 13:26], by which people are reconciled to God, that are born again of the incorruptible seed by the word of God [1 Pet 1:23];

JN2: 211 (1655): But this you know not, who have eyes and see not, ears and hear not [Jer 5:21], and hands which never handle the word of life [1 Jn 1:1]; yet would you be teaching others that which you never saw nor heard, and to this teaching you would limit others.

IP3: 259 (1672): ...the life of the Son is manifested and revealed in [the Light], and they come therein truly to see, and taste, and handle the Word of eternal life [1 Jn 1:1f].

WTG 67 (Susanna Morris, 1745): labouring in our small measures as well as we could in the word of life [1 Jn 1:1]

(1 Jn 1:1f)

IP4: 179 (1667): That which they were to preach and testify of was, "That which was from the beginning," [1 Jn 1:1] even the "eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto them." [1 Jn 1:2]

IP4: 377 (1679): This word is the word of life [1 Jn 1:1], and the life is manifested in it, 1 John 1:2, as the apostles knew in their day, and as God's gathered ones know in this day.

(1 Jn 1:2-4)

IP3: 301 (1674): For in the gospel state the true light shines inwardly in the heart, the life is manifested [1 Jn 1:2]; and being manifested, they that come into the manifestation of it, come into the holy union, and into the holy fellowship with the Father and Son [1 Jn 1:3], where the joy is, and where the joy is full [1 Jn 1:4]; where the power is revealed which does away that which is contrary to the holy fellowship, and hinders the holy joy and rejoicing in the Lord.

(1 Jn 1:2)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 1:2: IP3:19f (John 6:27)]

(1 Jn 1:3)

Other texts citing 1 Jn 1:3: GF7:172 (1 Jn 5:11f), GF8:181 (John 4:10), GF8:204 (John 3:3-5), JN1:137 (1 Jn 1:7), JN2:351(1 Jn 2:22), IP3: 255 (1 Pet 1:8), HPS 288 (Mat 5:3)]

GF6: 260 (1684): fellowship with the Father and the son [1 Jn 1:3], and one with another [1 Jn 1:7]

GF7: 79 (1654): keep your meetings, every one of you waiting in the power of God upon him; that in it ye may have unity with God, the Father, and the son [1 Jn 1:3], and one with another [1 Jn 1:7].

GF8: 238 (1683): And so their fellowship is with the Father and the son [1 Jn 1:3], and their communion is in the holy ghost [2 Cor 13:14], which proceeds from the Father [John 15:26] and the son

JN1: 489 (1655): Where read you of a written word? But if you thereby mean the Scriptures, which we call a declaration of them that spake them forth, it is true we do so; and them that spake them forth witness them with us to be a declaration [Luke 1:1; 1 Jn 1:3], and the letter and not the Spirit.

IP1: 313 (1660): And he that comes into this light, and into this power, is owned in the light and in the power, wherein is the life of all the saints, and the true fellowship both with the Father and the Son [1 Jn 1:3], and one with another [1:7]

(1 Jn 1:4)

1P4: 63 (1671): "These things," saith John, "I write to you, that your joy may be full." [1 Jn 1:4] Shall the joy never be full in any? How can the joy be full, where sin hath power, and breaks in upon the soul, and prevaileth upon the mind, even to the committing of it daily?

(1 Jn 1:5-7)

IP2: 6f (1660): This was the apostle's message (who received and came with the message of the gospel), that "God is light, and in him is no darkness at all." 1 John 2:5 [sic]. And this they preached to bring men into fellowship with this light, ver. 3. that they might walk with God in it, and there be cleansed by the blood of Jesus through it. ver. 7. Which that they might obtain, they must first be turned from darkness to it, Acts 26:18.... [Penington considers 1 Jn 1:5 the gospel message, and frequently associates it with Acts 26:18.]

(1 Jn 1:5)

[Other texts citing John 1:5: JN3:531 (Gen 18:23- 32), HPS 397 (John 12:46)]

JN1:234 (1653): you are separated from God and knows not; for what communion hath light with darkness [2 Cor 6:14]? God is light, and he that dwells in God dwelleth in light, and in him is no darkness at all [1 Jn 1:5]; but while you live in sin you are in darkness, and the god of this world hath blinded your eyes that you cannot see [2 Cor 4:4]....

HPS 55 (Sarah Blackborow, 1658): he is light, and in him is no darkness at all [1 Jn 1:5]; yet will the darkness strive with him, turn from him, and stumble at him [1 Jn 2:10];

WPR 617 (1696; WPT 293): ...there are not two distinct Lights within, but one and the same Manifesting, Reproving, and Teaching Light within. And this the Apostle John, in his first Epistle, makes plain....: First, in that he calls God Light, 1:5. Secondly, in that he puts no Medium, or Third thing between that Light and Darkness, Verse 6. If we say we have Fellowship with Him, and walk in Darkness, we lie, &c. Intimating, that Men must walk either in Light or Darkness, and not in a Third, or other State or Region.

(1 Jn 1:7)

Other texts citing 1 Jn 1:7: GFJN 688 (under 1 Jn 1:8-10), GF3: 226 (John 7:38), GF4:128 (Heb 10:14), GF5:252 (Heb 9:27), GF6:260, GF7:79, IP1:313 (all 1 Jn 1:3), GF6:359 1 Jn 5:7f), GF7:133 (Rev 1:5), GF7:141f (John 3:19f), GF7:172 (1 Jn 5:11f), GF7:243 (John 6:29), GF8:11 (Heb 9:13f), GF8:181 (John 4:10), GF8:204 (John 3:3-5), JN1:159 (1 Jn 2:11), IP2:424 (John 8:12), IP3:259 (Rev 22:1)]

GF5:446 (1678): [quotes 1 Jn 1:7] So mark, he was the cleanser from all sin: so they needed not a purgatory. And they that are not cleansed from all sin, are they that do not walk in the light, as Christ is in the light; and such in their darkness may imagine a purgatory to cleanse them in....

GF7: 232 (1662): Now what value, and price, and worth have they made of the blood of Christ, that cleanseth from sin and death [1 Jn 1:7]; and yet told people that they would bring them to the knowledge of the son of God, and to a perfect man, and now tell them they must not be perfect on the earth, but carry a body of sin about them to the grave?

GF7: 301 (1667): And so, walk in the light [1 Jn 1:7] as children of the light and of the day [1 Th 5:5].

JN1: 137 (1653): whoever walks in [The light] hath fellowship with God [1 Jn 1:3] and one with another and thereby are cleansed from all sin [1 Jn 1:7]

JN2: 204 (1655): ...you conclude, none can ever come to be wholly free while they live, and so make the blood of Christ of none effect, which we do witness doth cleanse from all sin [1 Jn 1:7]....

IP2: 114 (1661): Oh, that light, that pure light of the Spirit, wherein the living blood runs, which cleanseth from all sin [1 Jn 1:7], and keepeth clean them that abide and walk in it!

IP3: 253: John ... speaks of walking in the light of the Lamb [Rev 21:23f] , which every one that comes to witness the true light ought to do, else there is no true fellowship with God, nor with his sanctified ones, who are gathered into and walk in the light, even as God is in the light [1 Jn 1:7].

IP3: 259 (1672): ...in this light they come to witness cleansing by the blood of the Lamb [1 Jn 1:7/Rev 7:14]

IP3: 480 (1671): For there is no other Reedemer, besides the Lord Jesus Christ, and he redeems by the grace of his Spirit, and by faith in his blood [Rom 3:25], which cleanseth from sin [1 Jn 1:7]; which blood is sprinkled on the consciences of those that believe [Heb 10:22], – and that not in the darkness, but in the light; as is said in 1 John 1:7.

IP4 (1671): 88: In the light, remission of sins is received; for there is the blood of sprinkling [Heb 12:24], wherewith those that are sprinkled come thither; and indeed, none can walk and abide there, but they come to witness the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleansing them from all sin [1 Jn 1:7]; and true, real cleansing is nowhere else witnessed.

JWJM 255 (17--): Oh, that we who declare against wars and acknowledge our trust to be in God only, may walk in the light [1 Jn 1:7] and therein examine our foundations and motives in holding great estates!

JSS 14 (17--): This is the blood of the everlasting covenant [Heb 13:20], the blood of sprinkling [Heb 12:24]; and as it is felt and known to cleanse from all sin [1 Jn 1:7], it is evident that that this is not a removal of the guilt while the actual state of sin and transgression remaineth.

(1 Jn 1:8-10)

GFJN 688: [a "Common-Prayer priest" quotes 1 Jn 1:8; Fox answers with 1 Jn 1:10] So there is a time for people to see that they have sinned, and there is a time for them to see that they have sin; and there is a time for them to confess their sin, and to forsake it, and to know "the blood of Christ to cleanse from all sin" [1 Jn 1:7].

(1 Jn 1:8)

JN2: 185 (1655; EQ 287): Thou runs to that one place which all thy father's children use to plead: "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us [1 Jn 1:8];" therefore, says thou, the truth is not in you Quakers. I say John was there showing to little children that there could be none free from sin further than they was in Christ, not in self, while anything of self remained.

JN1: 508 (1655): And for those words, If we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us [1 Jn 1:8]; whoever reads the next words may plainly see that they are spoken of a condition before confession and cleansing; else the same apostle should contradict himself, who saith, "He that abides in Christ sins not [1 Jn 3:6], and he that commits sin is of the devil [1 Jn 3:8]". And "he that is born of God sins not [1 Jn 3:9]"; which all witness to your deceit:

(1 Jn 1:8f)

IP4:188f (1667): Now, if any man come in truth to witness this from the Lord, and if he hath found by his consuming fire [Heb 12:29] the dross burnt up in him, and his soul cleansed from what is corrupt and unrighteous; doth he deceive himself, or is he a liar, if he say, The Lord hath cleansed me from all my unrighteousness? [1 Jn 1:8f]... There is a state of righteousness without Christ, wherein if a man say he hath no sin (and so thinks he hath no need of Christ) he deceives himself But there is a power in Christ to perfect the work of redemption of the heart; ... and he that truly feeleth it so, can say in God's presence, and in the true fear and humility of heart, The old leaven is wholly wrought out, and the new hath wholly leavened me [1 Cor 5:6-8]; this is not the voice of deceit, but of truth in him.

(1 Jn 1:9)

WPT 230f (1674, Mod Eng): Those who receive this illumination and do not rebel against it,but work to increase this heavenly talent within themselves [Mat 25:14-30], have fellowship with the pure eternal God and feel the blood of Christ cleansing them of all unrigheousness [1 Jn 1:9].

(1 Jn 2:1)

IP2: 507f (1667): And though sin overtake, let not that bow down; ... but wait for the healing through the chastisement [Isa 53:5], and know there is an Advocate [1 Jn 2:1], who, in that hour, hath an office of love, and a faithful heart toward thee.

(1 Jn 2:1f)

IP4: 98 (1671): So saith John, "If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father" [1 Jn 2:1] (to plead for the forgiving and blotting out of the sin); and he is the propitation (or reconciliation) for our sins [2:2]; as the old translation [Geneva] renders it.

(1 Jn 2:2)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 2:2: GF5:172 (under Mar 16:15), GF5:415 (Heb 10:9f), GF6:64 (Heb 7:26), GF7:251 (Heb 13:12), GF8:236 (Mat 27:46), GFT 218 (John 3:16), IP4:100f (Heb 7:27f), IP4:185 (Mat 20:28)]

GF5: 411 (1679): And the apostle John saith, "how that Jesus Christ the righteous is a propitiation for our sins, and not for our sins only, but for the sins of the whole world," [1 Jn 2:2] (mark, the whole world,) that is, all the world, that Christ is a propitiation for the sins of. Then how can ye say, that he hath ordained any for death and damnation? for their condemnation is of themselves, for not believing.

GF8: 160 (1679): And also, you must instruct and teach your Indians and negroes, and all others, how that Christ, by the grace of God, tasted death for every man [Heb 2:9], and gave himself a ransom for all men [1 Tim 2:6], to be testified in due time, and is the propitiation not for the sins of christians only, but for the sins of the whole world [1 Jn 2:2]:

IP4: 185 (1667): Great is the love of God to mankind, who desireth not their destruction, but their redemption and salvation from that which destroyeth. Now, from and according to this love, he sent Christ as a ransom [Mat 20:28], a propitiation for the sins of the whole world [1 Jn 2:2]....

(1 Jn 2:3-6)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 2:3-6: RBA 214 (Mat 5:48)]

(1 Jn 2:3)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 2:3 IP3: 525f (John 14:21)]

(1 Jn 2:4)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 2:4: JN2: 237 (under 1 Jn 3:15)]

JN1:171f (1653): ...he who comes once to hear the voice of Christ in Spirit will no more desire to hear the voice of strangers (John 10:5). All your hirelings [John 10:12] are strangers to the voice of Christ, and he knows them not; for though they may prophesy in his name and in his name cast out devils, yet if they be workers of iniquity Christ knows them not [Mat 7:22f]; "for he that saith, I know him, and keeps not his commandment, is a liar" [1 Jn 2:4].

HPS 178 (Katharine Evans & Sarah Chevers, 1662): And he said, There was but one faith, either theirs or ours; and asked us which it was? We said, everyone had the true Faith, that did believe in God, and in Jesus whom they had sent but they that say they do believe, and do not keep his commandments, are liars, and the truth is not in them. [1 Jn 2:4]

WPR 75 (1669): ...such as live in the Vanities, Pleasures, Recreations, and Lusts of the World, abide not in him, neither know him, (for they that know him, depart from Iniquity) [2 Tim 2:19; margin: 1 Jn 2:4]

(1 Jn 2:5)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 2:5: HPS 359 (Rom 4:11)]

GF5: 124 (1675): "And he that keepeth his word, in him (mark, in him,) is the love of God perfect indeed. Here by know we that we are in him," [1 Jn 2:5] (mark, in him, to wit, Christ.)

(1 Jn 2:6)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 2:6: IP4:429 (John 1:29), JWJM 143 (under Jas 3:17)]

GF5: 142 (1675): "He that saith, he remaineth[G] in him," to wit, Christ, "he ought so to walk, as he hath walked." [1 Jn 2:6]

GF8: 155 (1678): And the saints did confess the son of God was come, and had given them an understanding, and they were in him [1 Jn 5:20], and they were to walk as he walked [1 Jn 2:6], and not only to talk as he talked: for there are too many talkers, and few walkers in Christ; my desire is there may be more.

IP3: 197 (1671): It is said concerning Christ, "He that saith he abideth in him, ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked." 1 John 2:6. How did Christ walk? Did not he walk in the light of God's spirit? In subjection to God's spirit?

WPR 639 (1699?): And as he was so we should be in this World according to the Beloved disciple 1 John 2:6.

JWJM 255 (17--): let us live in his spirit and walk as he walked [1 Jn 2:6], and he will preserve us in the greatest troubles.

(1 Jn 2:7)

GF6: 232 (1683): And John saith, the old commandments is "the word, which ye have heard from the beginning [1 Jn 2:7], and is called the word of faith [Rom 10:8], and the word of wisdom [1 Cor 12:8], and the word of patience [Rev 3:10], and the word of power [Heb 1:3], and the word of life [1 Jn 1:1];"

(1 Jn 2:8)

IP3: 131 (1668): [John] said, "The darkness is past, and the true light now shineth." [1 Jn 2:8] Paul had said, The night is far spent, and the day is at hand [Rom 13:12]; but [John] said, the night is past, and the day is come. And he writes to all,–children, young men, fathers,– as being passed from the darkness, and in the light of day.

HPS 385 (Elizabeth Bathurst, 1679): The Darkness is past, and the true Light now shineth. [1 Jn 2:8] Which Light is a Light of the Spirit of the Lord dwelling in his People....

(1 Jn 2:9)

WPR 313, WPT 108 (1674): It is time then for T. Hicks and his partners to look about them, lest the midnight cry overtake them, and their professing lamp be found without oil [Mat 25:1-13]; For I must needs tell him, in the beloved disciple's language, "He that saith, he is in the Light and hateth his brother is in the darkness even until now." [1 Jn 2:9] And in my own language, that I take to be their state, who show so much envious displeasure against harmless people, and those in particular, that never yet offended, much less justly provoked them.

(1 Jn 2:10)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 2:10: GF4:17 (Mat 24:23), GF4:32 (John 3:19-21), JN2:91 (John 1:10)]

GF4: 43 (1654): if you love that light, you love Christ, and walking in the light in measure, there will be no occasion of stumbling [1 Jn 2:10], for all stumbling is in being disobedient....

GF7: 58 (1653): he that loves the light, brings his deeds to the light [John 3:21], to him there is no occasion of stumbling [1 Jn 2:10];

IP2: 299f (John Crooke, 1662): ...some lust or thought or other followed me at the heels, and disquieted me night and day, until I came to know him in whom was rest, and no occasion of stumbling [1 Jn 2:10], in whom the devil hath no part....

(1 Jn 2:11)

JN1: 159 (1653): he that walks in darkness, the fruit of darkness shows it; he that walks in the light, the fruits of the light make it manifest. [1 Jn 2:11]

(1 Jn 2:12-14)

IP3:131f (1668): [John] writes to all,–children, young men, fathers,– as being passed from the darkness, and in the light of day. The little children had had their sins forgiven for his name's sake, and had known the Father. [1 Jn 2:] ver.12-13. The young men were strong, and the word of God did abide in them, and they had overcome the wicked one. The fathers knew him that was from the beginning, ver. 13-14. and knowing that, they knew enough....

(1 Jn 2:12)

WPT 186 (1674, Mod Eng): God acquits us for his name's sake [1 Jn 2:12]

(1 Jn 2:13f)

GF6: 203 (1682): Now, here you may see how John writes ... to the fathers that knew Christ as in the beginning [1 Jn 2:13f]. So the fathers knew him in the glory that he had with the Father before the world began [John 17:5]...

GF6: 444 (168-?): [quote 2:14] This is contrary to the devil's ministers and messengers, that say, there is no overcoming sin, which is of the wicked one, on this side the grave.

IP3: 489 (1671): [citing Eph 6: 10-13] Is not this a precious state, to be "strong in the Lord and in the power of his might"? to know "the whole armor of God," and to put it on and stand armed against the strength of the enemy, and to overcome him? was there ever such a state witnessed? Yea: John writeth to the young men in his time, because they had "overcome the wicked one." (Compare 1 John 2:14, with Eph 6:10.) May not such a thing be witnessed, even now, in these our days?

IP4: 188 (1667): ... believers, who were grown up in the life and power of truth, and had overcome the wicked one, by the strength of Christ in them [1 Jn 2:13f]

(1 Jn 2:15)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 2:15: IP1:26 (Rom 1:30), IP2:183 (under Luk 6:26)]

GF8: 256 (1684): love not the world, nor the things of the world [1 Jn 2:15], for the love of the world is enmity to God [Jas 4:4].

JN1: 166: You that love the world and the things of the world, the love of the Father is not in you [1 Jn 2:15]; for whom you love, him you will follow.

IP3: 432 (1670): For thou must come out of the spirit of this world [1 Cor 2:12], if thou wilt come into God's Spirit; and thou must come out of the love of the things of this world, if thou wilt come out of the spirit of this world; or in the love of the things of this world, the spirit of this world lodgeth and dwelleth, and thou canst not touch the unclean thing [Isa 52:11, 2 Cor 6:17], but thou also touchest somewhat of the unclean spirit. Therefore said John from a true and deep understanding, "Love not the world, neither the things of the world," (if thou love the things of the world, thou lovest the world), for "if any man love the world, the love of theFather is not in him." [1 Jn 2:15]

(1 Jn 2:15f)

GF8:268 (1684): And therefore consider when you say, "Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name [Mat 6:9]," &c. when you live in those things which are not of the Father which is in heaven, and daily obey and love the lust of your eye, the lust of your flesh, and the pride of your life, "which is not of the Father, but of the world." [1 Jn 2:16] And the apostle John tells you, "He that loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him" [1 Jn 2:15].

WPR 106 (1669): From God I tell you, that whilst you live in the wantonness, pride, and luxury of the world, pleasing and fulfilling the lust of the Eye, the Lust of the Flesh and the pride of Life [1 Jn 2:16], God detests you all, and laughs you and your worship to scorn.

(1 Jn 2:16)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 2:16: IP2:144f (under Heb 10:33)]

GF6: 141f (1682): [lust of flesh, eye, pride of life [1 Jn 2:16] originated with devil/serpent at the time of the fall]

GF8: 95 (1676): So now they come to be exercised in the grace of God, and to admonish and exhort, reprove and rebuke [2 Tim 4:2] , and to keep all their families modest, honest, virtuous, sober, and civil, and not to give liberty, nor indulge that which tends to vice, or lasciviousness, or any evil, or idleness, or slothfulness, or the fashions of the world, which pass away [1 Cor 7:31]; ... and not to fulfil the lust of the eye; for that being satisfied, brings the pride of life, and then comes the lust of the flesh; and this is not of the Father, but of the world [1 Jn 2:16].

JN2: 262 (1655): he that is in the lust of the world and in the lust of the flesh and of the eye [1 Jn 2:16] must not bear rule for God.

IP3: 152 (1668): The true Jew [Rom 2:29] ... is commended ... for denying and turning from all ungodliness and worldly lusts [Tit 2:12], even of the flesh, eyes, and pride of life; all which are not of the Father (whom he is born of and seeks after), but of the spirit of the world [1 Jn 2:16/1 Cor 2:12], which the earthly-minded man [Phil 3:19/Rom 8:6] is born of and seeks to please.

IP3: 507 (1675): If thou wouldst come to the feeding-place of the flock, and to rest in the pure life, power, and righteousness of the Lord with them; thou must mind their footsteps [Song 1:7f], thou must go forth out of that which God hath gathered and led them out of, thou must forsake whatever is not of the Father, but of this world [1 Jn 2:16]....

(1 Jn 2:17)

GF7: 31 (1653): He that doth the will of God, abideth [1 Jn 2:17] in that which endureth for ever, and seeth all flesh to be as grass, and the glory of the world to pass away [1 Pet 1:24].

IP3: 100 (1668): ... I felt that I could not be satisfied with (nor indeed seek after) the things of this perishing world, which naturally pass away; but I desired true sense of, and unity with, that which abideth for ever [1 Jn 2:17].

(1 Jn 2:18)

GF4: 235 (1660): And John saw [the false prophets and antichrist] were come, and these were the last times then [1 Jn 2:18], and such went forth from them, and such were the heretics, who drew people from the anointing within them [1 Jn 2:27]....

GF7: 243 (1663): And the true Christ is above all the antichrists [1 Jn 2:18], and God is above the devil...

GF7: 268 (1664): And also ye may see what jangling there was amongst such as did forbid meats, and drinks [Col 2:16], and marriages; and such got up into worshipping of angels [Col 2:18] and compelling ways, which after a time did separate, and apostatize from Christ, and the apostles, and so afterwards became antichrists [1 Jn 2:18], in an anti-liberty [2 Pet 2:19], and anti-freedom, to such as know all things good and blessed as they were in the beginning;

(1 Jn 2:18f)

IP1: 332: [1 Jn 2:18f, see under 1 Jn 4:1]

(1 Jn 2:19)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 2:19: WDS 240f (Mat 25:1-13)]

IP3: 318 (1674): It is true, persons may walk among us, and afterwards go out from us, who were never of us [1 Jn 2:19] ... whom we could never own in the sight of the Lord, as being born of him; though we were willing to wait and watch for their good [Jer 44:27], that they might come to witness the true birth.

(1 Jn 2:19f)

GF8: 245 (1683): And the apostle John speaks of such as went out from us. It seems, they were once among them, "but," (saith he,) "they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out from the true church, that they might be manifest that they were not of it." [1 Jn 1:19] And these were the antichrists and false prophets, that Christ said should come [Mat 24:24], which John and the apostles saw were come, and exhorted the church to beware of, and to keep to the unction which they had from the Holy One [1 Jn 2:20].

(1 Jn 2:20)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 2:20: GF7:177 (John 15:15)]

MFS 33 (1660): The same spirit in people answers to the anointing which is in them, which they received [1 Jn 2:27], even the unction of the Holy One [2:20].

IP1: 28 (1658): "Ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things." [1 Jn 2:20] How came they to know all things? Doth not John say, it was by the "unction"? The anointing was in them, a fountain or well-spring of light and life, issuing forth continually such rivers and streams of life within, as they needed no other teacher in the truth and way of life. verse 27.

IP3: 132 (1668): Yea, the little children had an unction from the Holy One, and they knew all things; and John wrote not unto them as not knowing the truth, but because they knew it. [1 Jn 2:20f]

(1 Jn 2:22)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 2:22: JN2: 545 (under 1 Jn 5:12)]

GF7: 296 (1667): Though they do profess Christ, yet denying his light, they deny him: these are antichrists [1 Jn 2:22], that are against him, though they do profess him;

JN2: 351 (1655): here thou art found preaching another gospel, ... and all that know God in them sees thee accursed [Gal 1:8f], and thy antichristian doctrine, who denies the Father and the Son [1 Jn 2:22], and fellowship with them [1 Jn 1:3]....

(1 Jn 2:23)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 2:23: JN1: 227 (under 1 Jn 4:1f)]

GF7: 26 (1653): he that hath the son, hath the Father also. [1 Jn 2:23]

GF4: 154-156 (1657): [mini-commentary on John 2:24-29, the anointing which abides in you]

(1 Jn 2:24-27)

JN1: 81f (1653): And John said, "These things have I written to you concerning them that seduce you, you need not that any man teach you, but as the anointing teaches you all things." [1 Jn 2:26f] Now if an hundred or a thousand people should come and deny all you priests and witness that they had this anointing within them ..., such you go about to persecute ... and seek to bring them from their teacher within.... Here you show yourselves to be seducers ....we do not seek to draw anyone from the anointing within them [1 Jn 2:27], but do exhort all there to wait and abide for the promise, which is eternal life to them that abide in the anointing [1 Jn 2:24f];

(1 Jn 2:26f)

IP1: 365 (1660): The Apostle John, speaking of antichrists, seducers, and erring spirits, which were to be tried [1 Jn 4:1], doth not bid them try them by the words which he wrote, or by the other apostles' words, or by the prophets' words; but by the anointing; which keeping close to, they need fear no seducers. [1 Jn 2:26f]

IP2: 427 (1666): And there were many [false prophets], 4:1, and such they were as had a great power of deceit, and came therewith to seduce them. [1 Jn 2:26] Therefore he bids them, in the unction which they had received, ver. 27, which searcheth and discerneth all, to "try the spirits" [1 Jn 4:1].

(1 Jn 2:27)

[Other texts citing 1 Jn 2:27: GF4:235 (under 1 Jn 2:18), GF4:262 (Heb 8:10f), GF6:211f, (1 Jn 4:1), MFS 33, IP1:28 (1 Jn 2:20), JN1:516 (Heb 5:12), IP1:159 (1 Jn 5:21), IP1:161 (Mat 24:23-26), IP1:369 (Mat 10:25), IP3:500 (Rev 3:18), IP4:29 (Mat 24:24), IP4:231 (Mat 11:27)]

GFJN 8 (16–): But I brought them Scriptures, and told them there was an anointing within to teach them, and that the Lord would teach his people himself. [1 Jn 2:27]

GF7: 57 (1653): And they that were of the second birth, were taught of God, and needed no man to teach them [1 Jn 2:27]; and were come into the everlasting covenant.

GF7: 123 (1656): who go from the light within, go from the anointing within them [1 Jn 2:27], and so continue not in the son, nor in the Father.

JN2: 459 (1655): To the fourth query, where that anointing is spoken of (1 Jn 2:[27]). And this thou would thrust out from the Spirit within to your literal teachings, when John saith [quote]. And this thou shamest not to wrest [2 Pet 3:16], "that they need no man to teach them, that teacheth otherwise."

IP3: 333 (1674): [quote] The outward anointing was a shadow of the inward, and had a glory in it under the dispensation of the law; and the inward anointing in the gospel dispensation [1 Jn 2:27] is spiritual and divine, and exceeding glorious. Christ, the anointed one, anoints all his.... [more]

IP3: 453 (1670): And as thou comest in to that nature, and into that Spirit from which the nature proceeds, thou wilt truly distinguish concerning prayer, concerning faith, concerning love, and all other spiritual things; and thou wilt know Him who is truth and no lie [1 Jn 2:27], who deceives not, but preserves that mind which is given up to him, and abides in him, out of all error and deceit.

IP4: 202 (1667): To own and contend earnestly for the scriptures aright, is good [Jude 1:3]; but it was not good formerly to set up the writings of Moses and the prophets above and against Christ; nor is it good now to set up the Scriptures above the Spirit, nor to make them the trier instead of the anointing [1 Jn 4:1, 2:27].

IP4: 334f (167-?): For the great Almighty God is not limited [Psa 78:41], but he may speak in and through whom he pleaseth. He may speak to me from the anointing in my own heart [1 Jn 2:27], and the holy anointing may please to speak to me through others; and so far as I am of God, and sensible of his appearance, I cannot despise the voice of the anointing in my own heart, or through others. Yea, truth teacheth that modesty, temperance, humility, tenderness, and sobriety, that I dare not despise the voice that pretends to the anointing in any, till I have made trial of it.

EQ 95 (William Dewsbury, 1655): The Word of the Lord came to me, saying: "The leaders of my people causes them to err, in drawing them from the light in their consciences, which leads to the anointing within, which the Father hath sent to be their teacher [1 Jn 2:27]...."

WTG 212 (Elizabeth Hudson, 1750): we had a large meeting and somewhat favoured with the anointing oil [1 Jn 2:27].

DFR 93 (17--): If you who have received the anointing [1 Jn 2:27], are faithful to the manifestations of divine Grace, you will be made instrumental in spreading its holy influence among the people.

(1 Jn 2:29)

IP4: 248 (1671?): "If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that everyone that doeth righteousness is born of him." 1 John 2:29. Mark: the new birth precedes the doing of righteousness; and the doing of righteousness is a certain evidence of the new birth.