 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...  Papers on Wesleyan matters - Page 106Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1808 - 586 pages
...Christian principles,) " is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, " easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good " fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy:...righteousness is sown in peace of " them that make peace." " For the wrath of man " worketh not the righteousness of God.1 " In all cases where boasting, reviling,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Belsham - 1808 - 656 pages
...where enav and strife ore, there disturbance is, and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom which is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of pity and * the tongue is a spark, the varnisher of injustice Wakefield. f Gr. the wliecL " Setteth... | |
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