...Blessed are the peace-makeri, said Christ. Usefulness is best promoted in the midst of tranquillity. The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. It is not sown amidst the noisy disputation and virulent invectives of angry and contending parties....

...easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits; without partiality, and without hypocrisy, and the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace, of them that make peace: but if ye have bitter envying and strife in your heart, glory not. This wisdom descendeth not from...

...partiality" (or wavering in persecution, as Dr. Hammond renders it), and without hypocrisy. And thus the " fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace ; James iii. 17, 18. As he is "taught of God to love his brother;" 1 Thess. iv. 9. so that same teaching...

...partiality, and without hypocrisy." And may we all remember, if we are disposed to strife and dissension, that " the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace, of them that make peace." I am your affectionate Friend, AN ELDER. 20 POSTSCRIPT. IF a few friendly words may be admitted by...

...of the Lord Jesus, blessed are the peace-makers; for they shall be called the children of God: and that the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. O that these sacred truths may be deeply engraven on all our hearts, and never depart out of our thoughts,...

...easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace." Is not this the religion, too, upon which we must rely in the great day of account with God ? So far...

...easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy ¡ ftnd )3 Ja. iii. 16, 17, 18. For they shall be called the children of Gorf.] See verses 45. 48. I have said,...

...easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace." Good men, and men eminently pious have their infirmities and imperfections. Even Moses spake unadvisedly...

...while " the purity of the church " has ever been the persecutor's plea and passport to all enormities, that " the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace " — and not in war of them that make war. Let us remember that Jesus Christ hath said, " Blessed are the peacemakers...

...of that war. He showed how contrary to the Gospel were strife and contention ; reminded the people that the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace (James iii. 18), and cautioned those who were so hot against popery to be as zealous in restraining...