 | John Bevans - Religious education of children - 1810 - 134 pages
...; but let your yea, be yea, and your nay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation. James iv. 1 . From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, ev.en of your lusts that war in your members. Rom. xii. 19. Dearly belored, avenge not yourselves, but rather give... | |
 | Edward Cooper - Sermons, English - 1810 - 540 pages
...their evil heart ?-\ From * Gen. viii. 21. Jer. xvii. 9. f Jer- vii. 24. 68 Scriptural Statement of the whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence ; even of yo ur lusts, which tear in your members?* The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity ; an unruly evil,... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - 448 pages
...our divine r*ligipa. * John xiy. $3. SERMON VII. .* £ ftE ACHED IN THE YEAR ST. JAMES, iv. I. from whence come wars and .fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lasts that war in your members? INTERPRETERS have observed, that these questions refer to the state... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - Millennium (Eschatology) - 1811 - 506 pages
...necessary result of the latter. It is effected by the exercise of men's selfishness and lusts. " From whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lusts, that war in your members?"* "But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not... | |
 | Nehemiah Nisbett - 1812 - 340 pages
...likewise, that the first ten verses of ch. iv. are addressed to unbelieving Jews — Where it is said, whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ? Ye lust, and have not. Ye kill and desire to have, and cannot oltain.... | |
 | William Steel Dickson - Ireland - 1812 - 522 pages
...the enquiry of the apostle J acnes, and the answer which accompanies it, may be justly applied : " Whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts. Ye lust, and have not; ye kill aad desire to have; ye fight and yet ye cannot obtain." If this... | |
 | William Steel Dickson - 1812 - 522 pages
...enquiry of the apostle James, and the answer which accompanies it, may be justly applied : " Whencfe come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts. Ye lust, and have not; ye kill and desire to have; ye fight and war, yet ye cannot obtain."... | |
 | Missions - 1813 - 500 pages
...The apostle James gives an account of men's wickedness perfectly consistent with this description. " Whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts, that war hi your members ? Ye lust and have not, ye kill and desire to have and cannot obtain."... | |
 | Edward Dorr Griffin - Congregational churches - 1813 - 340 pages
...another, teachest thou not thyself? Thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal ?" " From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts ? [selfish covetings, according to that explanation, " I had not known lust except the law had... | |
 | rev. John Brougham - Sermons, English - 1813 - 344 pages
...possessions by invading the property of their weaker neighbours. " From " whence," says St. James, " come wars " and fightings among you ? come they " not hence, even of your lusts that war " in your members." But what are frauds committed under the specious name of war compared... | |
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Ye lust, and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot. obtain; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it. 
