...reproach shall cease. For scornful men bring a city into a snare ; but wise men turn away wrath. 3 From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ? * He loveth transgression that loveth strife. * It is an honour for...

...warning and chastisement from God to each of us and to our city ; as such, let us regard it. — " From whence come wars and fightings among you, come they not hence even of your lusts, that war in your members?" (James, iv. 1.) Yet war is one of God's scourges; and civil war a...

...; and the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. Jo. iii. 14 — 18. From lusts that war in your members ? Do ye think that the Scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth...

...their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. (Phil. 2. 21 : 3. 19.)' From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence even of your lusts that war in your members ? (James 4. 1.) — Godresisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the...

...means be made to cease too. We are told, what those causes are by the apostle James, chap. 4. 1. From whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lusts? Indeed this is the same cause that was before mentioned, but considered as disquieting and troubling...

...countrymen, who still continued to display the highest antipathy to christianity. " Whence," says he, " come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ? Ye desire, and have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not,...

...earth, and fertilizes her fields with the blood of men ? Can a religion — But I forbear — From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even from your lusts? Those very lusts from which it is the province of faith to purify the heart? The infidel...

...most constant." In perfect accordance with this sentiment .are the views of the apostle James. " From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come* they not hence, even of your lusts. that war in your members ?" " The war spirit," says one, "is not indeed acknowledged by those...

...bayonets into the breasts of a hundred thousand of his brethren in a neighboring country ? — " From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts, which war in your members ? " And does the gospel then tolerate the malignant passions, which...

...happiness and peace. I remain, &c. &c. * Lev. xxvi. 3—6, LETTER III. ON THE REAL CAUSES OF WAR. " From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members .'" MY DEAR SIR, THE legitimate and practical inference from my last...