 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 and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.  Sermons on several subjects - Page 171by Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1783 - 429 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Palmer - Fast-day sermons - 1702 - 42 pages
...Eecaufe it encreafes, or continues Qivifions and j4nimojities in it. From whence come Wars and Fightings, come they not hence, even of your Lufts, which war in your Member st James 4,. i. And may not this Expoftulation be apply 'd to us? Has any Nation greater Reafons... | |
 | Francis Gastrell (bp. of Chester) - 1717 - 352 pages
...Reproach (hall ceale. For (corn ful Men bring a City into a Snare; but wife Men turn away Wrath. • From whence come Wars and Fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your Lufts that war in your Members.? k He loveth Tranfgreffion that loveth Strife. I It is an Honour for a Man... | |
 | Philo-Delphus (pseud.) - 1719 - 332 pages
...Men8 Wart that are begun, 4x4 carried on without Neciffity ? A- Yes- Jam. iy. i. From w hence copie Wars and Fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your Lufts, that war in your Members r * the greatelt Caufe of the crueleft Murders, When, a righteous pAce hath... | |
 | Benjamin Calamy - 1726 - 420 pages
...it is eafy to tell you in the words of Solomon, Only of 'Pride cometh Contention ; or of St. James, Whence come Wars and Fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even from jour Luffs .?Self-conceit and Self-love, whatever is pretended, is the great and principal Root... | |
 | Bible - 1737 - 468 pages
...or Reliance upon Divine Providence. i. \T7Hat I have * hitherto ob- « W ferved, of the wretched * FRom whence come wars, and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even Effects of a Turbulent and Contentious Spirit, is, but too wofully deX £ mosftrable, A PARAPHRASE... | |
 | Samuel Clarke - 1744 - 416 pages
...Contentions, Hatred and Uncharitablenefs, Schifms and Divifions without End. From whence ch fays St James, come Wars and Fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your Lujls that war in your Members ? From a zeal for the Religion and for the Commandments of Cbrift, from... | |
 | John Abernethy - 1751 - 452 pages
...produce difcord and animofity, they break fociety in pieces, and difunite the affections of mankind ; Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence ', even of your lufts that war in your members ? James iv. i. , On the contrary, that kingdom which God hath erected in the... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock - Sermons, English - 1764 - 460 pages
...World feels and and complains of. From 'whence come Wars and Fightings among you ? fays St. James, Come they not hence, even of your Lufts, •which "war in your Members ? He might have added to his Catalogue many Iniquities more, and repeated the fame Queftion and Anfwer... | |
 | Isaac Ambrose - Angels - 1769 - 382 pages
...be not onJy with flefh and blood, and nothing elle. The apoftle's queftion needs but application, ' From whence come wars • and fightings, among you, come they not hence, even of • your * your lufts that war in your members 2' James iv. iqd You have wars and fightings among yourfelves,... | |
 | John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1770 - 512 pages
...The apoftle James propounds, and anfwers a quefiion, very pertinent to this difcourfe; James iv. i. "From whence come wars and fightings among " you ? Come they not hence, even of your lufts that war in " your members ?" O if all men did but ftudy mortification and felt-denial, and live as... | |
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