| James Gardiner - 1720 - 448 pągines
...clamour, and evil-fpeaking, le put away from us. $ And this is the true wifdom from above, which is fir ft pure, then peaceable, gentle and eafy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits. WE have now very largely gone through the defcription of meeknefs. It remains now, II.... | |
| Elisha Smith - 1737 - 492 pągines
...Strefs of itsCommiffion, of being that tf^ifdom from ahove, which is firft pure, iben peace* able, gentle, and eafy to be entreated, full of Mercy and...Fruits, without Partiality, and without Hypocrify *, ' . • „ AND where Temperance and Juftice were notorioufly deficient, as in Felix and Drufilla,... | |
| John Tillotson - 1748 - 438 pągines
...chap. iii. 17. that the wifdom which is from above, that is, which is wrought by the divine Spirit, is firft pure, then peaceable, gentle, and eafy to be entreated, full oj mercy and good fruits . Now if God have freely promifed fo great a bleffing and benefit to men,... | |
| Peter Browne (bp. of Cork and Ross.) - 1749 - 406 pągines
...SERMON XXX. The great neceffity of purity. JAMES iii. 17. 'The wifdom that is from above, is fir/} pure, then peaceable, gentle, and eafy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, 'without partiality, and 'without hypocrijy. NOTHING hath done Chriftianity more SER M.... | |
| Benjamin Whichcote - 1751 - 416 pągines
...natural to the regenerate ftate, James iii. i7. The wifdom which is from above, is jirjl pure, and then peaceable, gentle and eafy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruitt. If religion attains not this effe£t, it is barren and ineffectual ; it is not in truth,... | |
| John Tillotson - 1757 - 482 pągines
...is; there is confufion, " and every evil work. But the wifdom which is D d 3 " from 4 " from above, is firft pure, then peaceable, gentle, *' and eafy...fruits; without partiality, and without hypocrify: «' and the fruit of righteoufnefs is fown in peace of *' them that make peace." ™- s SERMON LXXXI1I.... | |
| John Tillotson - 1757 - 488 pągines
...the character of " the wifdom that is from above ;" Jam. iii. 17. " the wifdom that is from above, is " firft pure, then peaceable, gentle, and eafy to be " entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, with" out partiality, and without hypocrify." 2. Holinefs is an eflential and principal... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1766 - 496 pągines
...ftrife is, there is confufion and every evil 4 work. The wifdom that is from above is firft ' pure, and then peaceable, gentle and eafy to be * entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without * partiality, and without hypocril'yj and the fruit * of righteoufnefs is fown... | |
| Edward Harwood - 1776 - 350 pągines
...indelible fignarures, that wifdom that comes from above, that is firft pure, then peaceable, gentle, eafy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrify. The Maker of our frame and the Divine Jefus knew that the moft pure, fublime, elegant, fubftantial,... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1778 - 508 pągines
...Parents. By tķ. Venn, AM 8vo. bd. Crowder. The text is taken from James iii. 17. < The wifdom from above is firft pure, then peaceable, gentle, and eafy to...fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrify.' The author defcribes the origin of Chriftianiry, and its diftlnguifhing charańeriltics, contralting... | |
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