 | Hugh Worthington - Sermons, English - 1822 - 556 pages
...given 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,... | |
 | William Hey - Apologetics - 1822 - 654 pages
...wars, which is given by St. James, has also been considered as prohibiting every species of warfare. " From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts, that war in your members ? Ye lust and have not : ye kill and desire to have, and cannot obtain... | |
 | Arminianism - 1838 - 1014 pages
...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... | |
 | Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert, Benjamin Ferris - Church history - 1823 - 524 pages
...departure 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,... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1823 - 486 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,... | |
 | Simeon Ashe - Contentment - 1823 - 232 pages
...ill-humour 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... | |
 | Robert South - Apologetics - 1823 - 610 pages
...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... | |
 | John William Cunningham - Sermons, English - 1823 - 378 pages
...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... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1824 - 126 pages
...corrupted temper of heart, they are ascribed correctly. They are ascribed where scripture ascribes them. " From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence even of your lusts, that war in your members?" " Only by pride cometh contention." If those,who call upon themselves... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 522 pages
...the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. — James ,.i. 14, 15. 17, 18. From whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lusts ? — James iv. 1 . Let none of you suffer, &c. as a busybody in other men's matters. — 1 Pet.... | |
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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 upon your lusts. 
