...disobedience which arises from civil dissention is a mother sin, which brings forth a brood of vipers. Where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. And that this shall prevail more and more, and rise to a tremendous height in the last times, so as...

...been a great promoter of vice, verifying that sentence given by St. James, and mentioned before, " Where envying and strife is, " there is confusion, and every evil work." This was the fatal stop to the Grecians, in their progress both of arts and arms; their wise men were...

...been a great promoter of vice, verifying that sentence given by St. James, and mentioned before, " Where envying and strife is, " there is confusion, and every evil work." This was the fatal stop to the Grecians, in their progress both of arts and arms; their wise men were...

...fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. 1 6 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 1 7 But the wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peacea5 Even so the tongue ks a little ble,...

...but he, whose bosom is possessed, whose heart is governed by that wisdom which is from above ; which is " first pure, then " peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full " of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, " and without hypocrisy." Would ye then have the fruit of the...

...against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is 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,...

...at all. The wisdom from above is"the true Christian philosophy ; that wisdom which, we are told*,*" is first pure, then peaceable, " gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good 'f fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." Hardness of heart is incompatible with...

...Remember what the apostle James saithj ch. iii. 16, 17'. Where envying and strife is, there is cbnfusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first fiure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without...

...glory not and lie not against the truth. This wisdom defendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish, for 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 easy to be entreated, full of mercy...

...him, and the outward change will be as evident as the inward change is real. "The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." A man may have every other' kind of wisdom,...