...engenders and nourishes the vilest passions of a fallen nature. "From whence come wars.and fight" ings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts, that " war in your members ?" And again ; " When lust hath con" ceived, it bringeth forth sin ; and sin, when it is finished,...

...from the doctrines of Christ. The Apostle James describes their origin with great precision. " From whence come wars and fightings among you. Come they not hence even of your lusts?" James iv. 1, &c. That church under whatever name it may have been known, which has originated, promoted,...

...suffer ourselves, and of those we bring upon others, arise from the dominion of our passions. " From whence " come wars and fightings among you ? " Come they not hence, even of your lusts, " which war in your members?" From whence come murders, robberies, oppression, and fraud ? Whence come...

...unlawful. But so does war. For the sinfulness of its cause, we have an account of that in James iv. 1, Whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lusts ? And for the unlawfulness of its effects, we need only survey our own experience, without recurring...

...that breeds quarrels and law-suits. Whence is all our contention, but for want of contentment ?* From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts? (James, iv. 1.) in particular, from this lust of discontent ? Why did Absalom raise a war against his...

...kind, into ease and prosperity. Well may it be said to them, when vexed, disappointed, and alarmed, " Ye ask, and receive not ; because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it on your lusts." ' pp. 3 — 5. ' I would now refer to" a Preacher of righteousness," — " a good minister...

...earnestly covet, and cannot obtain : ye fight and contend ; yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not; because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it on your pleasures. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is...

...place, strive to cut deep at the roots ofymlr own selfishness. — " From whence," asks St. James, " come wars and fightings among you* come they not hence even of your lusts?" 'Do you ask by what spell the Apostle of the Gentiles collected and combined large masses of a quarrelsome...

...kind, into ease and prosperity. Well may it be said to them, when vexed, disappointed, and alarmed, " Ye ask, and receive not ; because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it on your lusts." ' pp. 3 — 5. ' I would now refer to " a Preacher of righteoutnesi," — " a good...

...conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death, James 1:14-15. From whence come wars, and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your own lusts that war in your members, James 4:1? These are murrnurers, complainers, walking after their...