 | Missions - 1813 - 500 pages
...The apostle James gives an account of men's wickedness perfectly consistent with this description. " Whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts, that war hi your members ? Ye lust and have not, ye kill and desire to have and cannot obtain." And why do they... | |
 | Edward Dorr Griffin - Congregational churches - 1813 - 340 pages
...another, teachest thou not thyself? Thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal ?" " From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts ? [selfish covetings, according to that explanation, " I had not known lust except the law had said,... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 644 pages
...likewise, that the first ten verses of ch. iv. are addressed to unbelieving Jews. Where it is said, " Whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they...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." These... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1816 - 408 pages
...from him, that he who loveth 6od, love his brother also." " From whence then come wars and lightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ?" Pause, brethren, and decide. Is not the true source of war here disclosed? Does not war always spring... | |
 | Noah Worcester - Pacifism - 1816 - 814 pages
...from him. that he who loreth God, love his brother also." " From whence then come wars and lightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ?" Pause, brethren, and decide. Is not the true source of war here disclosed ? Does not war always... | |
 | John Mason - Aplolgetics - 1816 - 298 pages
...immediate effects of men's vices? * From whence come wars and fightings among you? (says St. James:) come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members!' James, iv. 1.— And from the same fatal source are derived many of those other evils and calamities... | |
 | 1816 - 408 pages
...from him, that he who lovetli God, love his brother also." " From whence then come wars and lightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in jonr inembers ?" Pause, brethren, and decide. Is not the true source of war here disclosed ? Does not... | |
 | Noah Worcester - Dueling - 1817 - 312 pages
...this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God, love his brother also." " From whence then come wars and fightings among you '/ Come they not...hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ?" Pause, brethren, and decide. Is not the true source of war here disclosed ? Does not war always... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - Sermons - 1817 - 474 pages
...influence of which is owing much the greatest part of the vice and misery that desolate mankind. " From whence come " wars and fightings among you? Come they " not hence, even of your lusts, which war ** in your members*?" From whence (may we add) come murders, frauds, breaches of trust, violations... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1817 - 610 pages
...all parts of this nation. And is not this nil chargeable to sin? Forget not the testimony of James. "Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence even of your lusts, which war in your members?" Such is the nature, and such the tendency of sin in general. Depravity... | |
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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 ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it. 
