 | James Gardiner - 1720 - 448 sider
...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.... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1748 - 438 sider
...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,... | |
 | John Orr (Archdeacon of Ferns.) - 1749 - 440 sider
...make it plain that we are governed by the Dictates of the Wifdom that is from above, vcr. 17. •which is firft pure, then peaceable, gentle, and eafy to be entreated ; full of Mercy and good Fruits, without Partiality, and without Hypocrify. SE RSERMON VIII. The moral Value and Worth... | |
 | Peter Browne (bp. of Cork and Ross.) - 1749 - 406 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 to be entreated; full of mercy and good " fruits; without partiality, and without hypocrify: «' and the fruit of righteoufnefs is fown... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1766 - 496 sider
...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... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1778 - 508 sider
...Parents. By tí. 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 be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrify.' The author defcribes the origin of Chriftianiry,... | |
 | Johann Engelbrecht - 1780 - 342 sider
...Confufion, and every evil Work; ; and between " that Wifdom, which is from above: For this " latter is firft pure, then peaceable, gentle, and *' eafy to be entreated, full of Mercy and good " Fruits," (Jam. iii. 15—17,) And this might and ought to curb and reitrain, to mitigate and... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1784 - 454 sider
...earthly, fenfual, devilifh ; full of confufion and " every evil work ;" whereas " the wifdom from " above, is firft pure, then peaceable, gentle, and " eafy to be entreated, full of mercy and good " fruits, without partiality, and without hypo" crify." This is the true heavenly wifdom, which... | |
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And fhould any wifdom prefide over that " which cometh down from above, and is firft pure, then peaceable, gentle, and eafy to be entreated, full of mercy, and full of good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrify... 
