 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...coming of the Lord. Behold the husbandman waiteth, &c. Be ye also patient ; establish your hearts, &c. Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have...that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. — James v. 7,8. 11. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end, for... | |
 | Bible - 1829 - 414 pages
...your communication be yea, yea; nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than these, cometh of evil." James v. 12. " But, above all things, my brethren, swear not...and your nay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation. Here we have the express declaration of Christ, condemning the use of oaths ; delivered not incidentally... | |
 | Church of England, Thomas Newland - 1829 - 696 pages
...v. 33—37.) And St. James, speaking of the enduring afflictions and of the patience of Job, adds, " But above all " things, my brethren, swear not, neither...your " nay, nay, lest ye fall into condemnation." (James, v. 12.) On these texts it may be observed : 1. The term " communication" shows, that our Saviour's... | |
 | John Everitt Good - Sermon on the mount - 1829 - 692 pages
...these cometh of evil." The apostle James gives us a similar caution, and urges a similar motive : " But above all things, my brethren, swear not; neither...your yea be yea, and your nay, nay, lest ye fall into temptation." * It seems wholly unnecessary to offer any explanatory remarks on these injunctions. The... | |
 | Benjamin Blydenburg Wisner, Susan Huntington - Letters - 1829 - 510 pages
...prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have...that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy." Of his Church it is said, " In Measure, when it shooteth forth, he will debate with it : he stayeth... | |
 | George Whitehead - Quakers - 1830 - 326 pages
...and to bear testimony to the Truth, against hypocrisy, sin, and wickedness. of Christ, exhorted : ' Above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither...and your nay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation.' James v. 12. From whence I inferred, if we may not swear by any other oath, then not by the oath of... | |
 | George Whitehead - Quakers - 1830 - 324 pages
...low and weak, that some Friends who came to visit me were ready to take their of Christ, exhorted : 'Above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither...and your nay, nay ; lest ye fall into condemnation.' James v. 12. From whence I inferred, if we may not swear by any other oath, then not by the oath of... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 632 pages
...tend and what will follow them. We see Job on the dunghill, but look not so far as his restoration, " Behold we count them happy which endure : ye have...that the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy." (Jam. • '. v. 11.) There is no judging by the present, but either by staying [for] the end, or believing... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 630 pages
...tend and what will follow them. We see Job on the dunghill, but look not so far as his restoration, " Behold we count them happy which endure : ye have...that the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy." (Jam. v. 11.) There is no judging by the present, but either by staying [for] the end, or believing... | |
 | William Paley - Sermons - 1830 - 378 pages
...prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience. Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have...Lord ; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.'t ' Call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great... | |
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But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath : but let your yea be yea ; and your nay, nay ; lest ye fall into con demnation. 
