 From whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ? 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 ; ye ask...  The Advocate of Peace - Էջ 381839Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1777 - 332 էջ
...our divine religion. * John xiv. 22.SERMON VII. % Preached in the year 1771. St. JAMES, iv. i. From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lufts that -war in your members ? INTERPRETERS have obferved, that thefe queftions refer to the ftate... | |
 | Martin Madan - 1781 - 454 էջ
...dangerous employments in which men are '" engaged, and women are not." As for war — it is written — Whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lufts (i)JV<SV, the defires after fenfual gratifications) which war in your mtmbers? Te luft and have... | |
 | John Wesley - 1782 - 728 էջ
...you'll mourn your want of care, Stung with remorfe and black defpair. SHORT HYMNS, James iii. i. From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your luJls? HORRIBLE luft of fame and power, How long fhall it o'er kings prevail ; Who bid the fword their... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1783 - 468 էջ
...influence of which is owing much the greateft part of the vice and mifery that defolate mankind. " From *' whence come wars and fightings among *' you ? Come they not hence, even of your " lufts, which war in your members -j- ?" From whence (may we add) come murders, frauds, breaches of... | |
 | James Williamson - 1793 - 268 էջ
...in the world proceed at firft from our unruly pafiions. From -whence, fays St. James, (Ja. iv. i.) come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lujls, that -war in your members ? But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, (Gal. v. 22.) and... | |
 | George (little.) - 1847 - 194 էջ
...whence come wars and fighting?" — and this is the answer, " Come they not hence, even of your own lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have...fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not," Jas. iv. 1, 2. G. Is it wrong, then, that there are soldiers ? Mr. If. You have asked a question, my... | |
 | John Flavel - 1799 - 626 էջ
...apoftle James propounds and anfwers a queftion very pertinent to this difcourfe, James iv. i < " From whence come wars " and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your " Infts that war in your members ?" O, if men did but ftudy mortification and felf-denial, and live... | |
 | John Flavel - 1799 - 666 էջ
...or mifcarry in the manner of prayer ; James iv. 2, 3. Ye Iiift, and have not ; ye kill, and defire to have, and cannot obtain : ye fight and war, yet ye have not, becaufe ye afk not. Ye afk, and receive not, becaufe ye afk amifs, that ye may confume it upon your... | |
 | Alexander Fraser - 1802 - 498 էջ
...qf that religion whith corrects the! fierce paffions of men, by inculcating univerfal love. " From whence come wars and fightings among " you ? Come they not hence, even of your *c lufts that war in your members ?" Thefe fierce paffions transform men into wild beafts, that delight... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1802 - 460 էջ
...his poft : Ifa. xxix. 20. T he natural man himfelf is the very field of battle : Jam. iv. i. " From whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lufts which war in your members ?" The war itfelf you may fee defcribed in the three following verfes.... | |
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