| John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1671 - 576 pages
...teaches men to do good, and receive evil ; to receive evil, and return good. " The wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and...righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace." James, 3 : 17, 18. The church is a dove for meekness. Cant. 6 : 9. When the world grows full of strife,... | |
| 1804 - 476 pages
...earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18... | |
| Thomas Brooks - 1806 - 270 pages
...yieldeth the peaceable fruits of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby," James iii. 18. " And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace, of them that make peace." The still and quiet soul is like a ship that lies still and quiet in the harbour ; you may take in... | |
| 1807 - 570 pages
...earthly, sensual, devilish. 1C For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1803 - 572 pages
...is which the apostle calls wisdom, may be learnt from chap. iii. 17, 18. " The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy...righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace." In chap. i. 5, &c. above cited, God is spoken of as the giver of this wisdom ; and in the following... | |
| Thomas Scott - Religion - 1808 - 586 pages
...Christian principles,) " is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, " easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good " fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy:...righteousness is sown in peace of " them that make peace." " For the wrath of man " worketh not the righteousness of God.1 " In all cases where boasting, reviling,... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 578 pages
...on, as the proper evidence of a truly wise and good man : James iii. 17. " The wisdom that is from' Above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy...fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy."' And such are the signs of true Christianky, which the Apostle John insists on throughout his epistles.... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 520 pages
...on, as the proper evidence of a truly wise and good man : James iii. 17. " The wisdom that is from Above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy...fruits, without partiality, and: without hypocrisy." And such are the signs of true Christianity, which the Apostle John insists on throughout his epistles.... | |
| Thomas Scott - Apologetics - 1809 - 392 pages
...peaceable, gentle, easy to be intreated, full of " mercy and good fruits, without partiality and with" out hypocrisy ; and the fruit of righteousness is sown " in peace of them that make peace ;" " for the wrath " of man worketh not the righteousness of God."* In all cases, where boasting, reviling,... | |
| Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1810 - 432 pages
...where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom, which is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and...righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace." Noah's thankful Egress from the Ark. A THANKSGIVING SBRMON, preached November, 1794. GENESIS viii.... | |
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