| Oliver Reywood - 1826 - 596 pages
...Drunkards will fall out and squabble, but in the morning they are friends and shake hands. How unlike to that wisdom which is from above ; that is " first pure, then peaceable, gentle and easy to be intreated," James iii. 17. O that God would pour down a spirit of love, mildness, and... | |
| Elijah Bailey - 1826 - 364 pages
...our fallen race, our labors will not be entirely unavailable, and transitory. "The wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without dissimulation." Our great motive is to guard against... | |
| Edward Reynolds, Alexander Chalmers - 1826 - 574 pages
...therein, to be managed and preserved with that ' wisdom which is from above;' which (St. James tells us) is ' first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good works, without partiality, and without hypocrisy, whereby the fruit of righteousness is sown... | |
| John Owen - 1826 - 600 pages
...is laid in the blood of God's people. 'The wisdom (religion, or way of worship) that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy, and good fruits, without partiality, without hypocrisy;' James iii. 17. when the other is ' earthly,... | |
| Francis William Pitt Greenwood - 1827 - 184 pages
...thinketh no evil and endureth all things," and is also declared to be " the wisdom from above, which is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits ; " can I hesitate in deciding, to which of the races in that land Christianity is... | |
| Russel Canfield - 1827 - 268 pages
...which may silence all who contend, with Cecil, that " Christianity is the wisdom from above, which is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full •of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." If this is the christian religion, and... | |
| John Wesley - 1827 - 548 pages
...has been brought to the contrary, I may not still have a measure of the ' wisdom from above, which is first pure, then peaceable ; gentle, easy to be entreated ; full of mercy and good fruits ; without partiality and without hypocrisy.' I have spoken abundantly more concerning... | |
| 1827 - 634 pages
...Spirit. But according to the Bible, true religion is the same in all. That " Wisdom which is from above, first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits,,without partiality and without hypocrisy," is justified of all her children. "But... | |
| Edward Irving - 1828 - 504 pages
...utterly impossible. Therefore, choose after which you will be conformed ; the wisdom from above, which is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and of good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy, or after the wisdom that descendeth not... | |
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