 | 1824 - 314 pages
...but to my want," should be every Christian's prayer. "Ye ask," says 8t. Jumea, "anil receive i ot, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." The love of Gwl forbids the granting such* petitions. I may cnnclutle with remarking;, that the theory... | |
 | George Townsend - 1825 - 808 pages
...desire to have, and cannot obtain : ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ?... | |
 | John Milton - 1825 - 794 pages
...included, first, that we ask every thing aright, that is to say, to a right end. James iv. 3. ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Secondly, that our supplications proceed from a pure and penitent heart. Hence 2 Sam. xxii. 42. they... | |
 | George Townsend - 1825 - 810 pages
...desire to have, and cannot obtain : ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it. upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ?... | |
 | John McDowell - 1825 - 560 pages
...that. if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us." And James tells us, " Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts ;" Jam. iv. 3. If therefore we ask for any thing sinful, or not according to the will of God, we have... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1825 - 698 pages
...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 upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? whosoever... | |
 | Richard Hele - 1825 - 598 pages
...of the wicked is abomination : how much more when he bringeth it with a wicked mind e ? Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss; that ye may consume it upon your lusts f. If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you ; ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto... | |
 | John Milton - 1825 - 472 pages
...included, first, that we *ask every thing aright, that is to say, to a right end. James iv. 3. 'ye ask, and receive not, because y,e ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.' Secondly, that our supplications proceed from a pure and penitent heart Hence 2 Sam. xxii. 42. ' they... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1825 - 536 pages
...may be merely for the purposes of sensual gratification. Thus the apostle James speaks, Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. And thus the Lord charged Israel, before they entered into the promised land, saying, [ know their... | |
 | 1826 - 590 pages
...which they ask, as far as consistent with his glory and their good. Hence James says, " Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." T. It appears from what has been said, that saving grace is always bestowed uncanditionally . Saving... | |
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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. 3 Ye ask; and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 
