 | James Ussher - 1660 - 628 pages
...Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion." And St. James tells us : " Thez fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make- peace." And in the last words of that Psalm, says the psalmist ; " The Lord commanded the blessing, even life... | |
 | John Flavel - 1671 - 576 pages
...is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated ; full of mercy and good fruits ; without partiality, and without hypocrisy...righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace." James, 3 : 17, 18. The church is a dove for meekness. Cant. 6 : 9. When the world grows full of strife,... | |
 | 310 pages
...that he may mar our testimony, for who will hear those who are known to quarrel among themselves ? " The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace." (James iii.) Would I be used of the Lord in sowing to the glory of God? Let me " Follow peae« with... | |
 | 1842
...piety, and happiness ; conducive therefore, to the growth of the Church. So the Apostle James says, " The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace." And St. Paul, in one of his most emphatic precepts, says, " Follow peace with all men, and holiness,... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin - 1803 - 210 pages
...but he, whose bosom is possessed, whose heart is governed by that wisdom which is from above ; which is " first pure, then " peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full " of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, " and without hypocrisy." Would ye then have the fruit of the... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. CHAP. IV. AGAINST COVETOUSNESS. FROM whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1804 - 352 pages
...at all. The wisdom from above is the true Christian philosophy; that wisdom which, we are told*, " is first pure, then peaceable, " gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good " fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." Hardness of heart is incompatible with... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1806 - 270 pages
...yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby," James iii. 18. " And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace, of them that make peace." The still and quiet soul is like a ship that lies still and quiet in the harbour ; you may take in... | |
 | Benjamin Beddome - 1807 - 546 pages
...him, and the outward change will be as evident as the inward change is real. "The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." A man may have every other' kind of wisdom,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1803 - 572 pages
...that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy....righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace." In chap. i. 5, &c. above cited, God is spoken of as the giver of this wisdom ; and in the following... | |
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But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace... 
