 | Wills - 1813 - 266 pages
...inculcated by the gospel ; 'but .that it proverbially betrays a weak cause 1 " This wisdom dcscendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish;...strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work."— Ep. Gen. of St. James, c. iii. 184 Reflections on [CHAP. viu. After we have read his sermon on the... | |
 | Alexander M'Leod - 1813 - 166 pages
...Let us not be desirous of vain-glory, provoking one another, envying one another. James 3. 14. 16. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. For where envying and strife is, there is eonfusion, and every evil work. ffj Psal. 112, 9. He hath... | |
 | 1813 - 580 pages
...v. 26.Let us not be desirous of vain-glory, provoking one another, envying one another. James iii. M But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the trulh. Ver. 16. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work. x Rom. vii.... | |
 | 1813 - 502 pages
...severity. However badly they may judge in other things, they will readily deeide with the apostle ; that " where envying and strife is there is confusion and every evil work," James ii. 13. The world judges rightly in this, it being utterly impossible for the grace of God, in... | |
 | Assembly of divines larger catech - 1813 - 158 pages
...16. But if ye have hitter emying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against ihe truth. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil wOck. Cf I Psaf. 112, 9. He hath di». persed, he hath given to the poor, his righteousness endureth... | |
 | Elizabeth Hamilton - 1813 - 484 pages
...language of the apostle, who describes it as " sensual and devilish ;" be« cause, as he observes, " where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work." In opposition to this, he describes the wisdom that is derived from a superior source, as " first pure,... | |
 | 1814 - 570 pages
...knowledge, among you ; let him shew, out of a good eonversation, his works with meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom deseendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envy ing... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 468 pages
...been a great promoter of vice ; verifying that sentence given by St James, and mentioned before, " Where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work." This was the fatal stop to the Grecians, in their progress both of arts and arms; their wise men were... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 616 pages
...says " come from the heart," that is, from some bad disposition there. And St. James, ver. 14, 15, " n; /3 is not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish." The causes of the offences of the tongue are... | |
 | William Huntington - 1815 - 494 pages
...God is not the author of confusion. " This wisdom cometh not from above, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish ; for where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work." James iii. 15, 16. Your conduct with Mr. B. is unwarrantable by the word of God, and I hope that the... | |
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But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual. . . . For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 
