| Robert South - Sermons, English - 1823 - 618 pages
...enlivened by deeds, James ii. 15, 16. If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be...which are needful to the body; what doth it profit ? Profit. does he say ? Why, it profits just as much as fair words command the market, as good wishes... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1823 - 812 pages
...avail ? " If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily food,'* said an inspired author, " and one of you say unto them ' Depart in peace, be...which are needful to the body, what doth it profit?" If empty words would answer the purpose, no man had a more plentiful supply of them than the right... | |
| 1823 - 152 pages
..."conduct as well as in the profession ? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be...which are needful to the body, what doth it profit ? (2 Jas. 15, 16.) 14. Does true friendship continue in adversity ? A friend loveth at all times, and... | |
| Christian life - 1879 - 422 pages
...charity which St. James condemns : " If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them. Depart in peace, be...are needful to the body ; what doth it profit ?"1 What, then, is the remedy? Shall we forbear to speak the time-honoured words of greeting ? No ! There... | |
| Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...have not works ? can faith save him ? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute' of daily food, and one of you say unto them, depart in peace, be...which are needful to the body ; what doth it profit ? 4 Even so, faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, thou hast faith,... | |
| John Newton - Sermons, English - 1824 - 638 pages
...works ? can (this)* faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food ; and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be...which are needful to the body ; what doth it profit ? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and... | |
| Andrew Fuller - Baptists - 1824 - 530 pages
...have not works? Can faith save him ? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be...which are needful to the body ; what doth it profit ? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. — Fea, a man may say, than hast faith,... | |
| Timothy Dwight - Theology - 1824 - 566 pages
...uttering good wishes over their distresses. If a brother or sister be naked, or destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be...which are needful to the body, what doth it profit?' Nothing is more absurd, nothing is more contemptible, than the charity which evaporates in words and... | |
| William Paley - 1824 - 472 pages
...goodness of heart," &c. Hear St. James : " If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them. Depart in peace ; be...give them not those things which are needful to the tody , what doth it profit V (James ii. 15, 16.) 4._" That giving to the poor is not mentioned in :harity,... | |
| William Paley, Edmund Paley - Bible - 1825 - 578 pages
...goodness of heart," &c. Hear St. James : " If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace ; be...'which are needful to the body ; what doth it profit?" (James, ii. 15, 16.) 4f. " That giving to the poor is not mentioned in St. Paul's description of charity,... | |
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