...this answer, when in the first verse of his fourth chapter, he himself proposes the question ; " From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts, which war in your membersr" The passions of envy, ambition, avarice, coveting another's possessions,...

...than that, which has been assigned to it by the pen of inspiration. "Whence come wars and fightings? Come they not hence even of your lusts, that war in your members ?" Had the king of Assyria imbibed a spirit, similar to that, which christianity inculcates, would...

...than that, which has been assigned to it by the pen of inspiration. "Whence come wars and fightings? Come they not hence even of your lusts, that war in your members t" Had the king of Assyria imbibed a spirit, similar to that, which Christianity inculcates, would...

...Where religion and morals are disregarded, the internal peace of a nation cannot long be maintained. " Whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even from your lusts that war in your members ? " They are the natural and unavoidable results of impurity...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...place, strive to cut deep at the roots of your 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...