| William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...Heb. xi. 25, 26. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees. — Heb. xii. 12. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers...this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience, &c. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation ; for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown... | |
| Samuel Nott - 1828 - 412 pages
...sleep, for thou, Lord, only makest me to dwell in, safety." VoL. in. SERMON XV. ON PATIENCE. JAMES i. 4. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. THE apostle James began the letter which he wrote to the twelve tribes by urging them to patience in... | |
| Church of England - 1829 - 668 pages
...i. 1. JAMES, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. My brethren, count it all joy when...perfect and entire, wanting nothing. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given... | |
| John Everitt Good - 1829 - 692 pages
...• Prov. iv. 16. t James i. 13, 14. FF 2 are commanded to rejoice in them. Thus says an apostle : " My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers...that the trying of your faith worketh patience."* This kind of trial is designed for our benefit, — either to show us what we are ourselves, or to... | |
| 1829 - 986 pages
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| Martin Luther - 1829 - 418 pages
...you fall into divers temptations : knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. And let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." O how necessary is patience for a christian ! We must enter into a new kind of life ; and if calamity... | |
| George Whitefield - 1830 - 314 pages
...commination, (besides solemn prayer and psalms three times,) and enlarged on these words of St. James, " My brethren, count it all joy, when ye fall into divers...patience : but let patience have her perfect work." I hope this had a good effect upon my hearers' hearts, and calmed their spirits. For indeed we are... | |
| John Platts - 1833 - 504 pages
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| William Romaine - 1830 - 650 pages
...as the apostle James testifies, writing to the twelve tribes in their dispersion and affliction : " My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers...your faith worketh patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." God be thanked for this word... | |
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