 | Elizabeth Hamilton - Education - 1813 - 484 pages
...language of the apostle, who describes it as " sensual and devilish ;" be« cause, as he observes, " where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work." In opposition to this, he describes the wisdom that is derived from a superior source, as " first pure,... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1813 - 580 pages
...have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the trulh. Ver. 16. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work. x Rom. vii. 7. What shall we say then ? Is the law sin '. God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin but... | |
 | Wills - 1813 - 266 pages
...betrays a weak cause 1 " This wisdom dcscendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish; for where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work."— Ep. Gen. of St. James, c. iii. 184 Reflections on [CHAP. viu. After we have read his sermon on the... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1813 - 502 pages
...severity. However badly they may judge in other things, they will readily deeide with the apostle ; that " where envying and strife is there is confusion and every evil work," James ii. 13. The world judges rightly in this, it being utterly impossible for the grace of God, in... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 468 pages
...been a great promoter of vice ; verifying that sentence given by St James, and mentioned before, " Where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work." This was the fatal stop to the Grecians, in their progress both of arts and arms; their wise men were... | |
 | William Huntington - 1815 - 494 pages
...author of confusion. " This wisdom cometh not from above, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish ; for where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work." James iii. 15, 16. Your conduct with Mr. B. is unwarrantable by the word of God, and I hope that the... | |
 | Noah Worcester - Pacifism - 1816 - 814 pages
...not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is eartbly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, geulle, and easy to be entreated,... | |
 | 1816 - 408 pages
...not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated,... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1816 - 408 pages
...not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. Kor where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is lirst pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated,... | |
 | John Mason - Aplolgetics - 1816 - 298 pages
...Isaiah, Ivii. 20. — He is a stranger to peace, and all the blessed fruits and effects of it; for, where ' envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.' James, iii. 16. — His mind is continually restless and uneasy, agitated to and fro with the violent... | |
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But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 
