...against the truth : as if any such zeal, any thing contrary to love, could consist with true wisdom. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where bitter zeal and strife are, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom which is from above,...

...mire and dirt. Is. Ivii. £0. He is a stranger to peace, and all the blessed fruits and effects of it; for, where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. James iii. 16. His mind is continually rest.? less and uneasy, agitated to and fro Avith the violent...

...knowledge among you ? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts,...truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is parthty, sensual, devilish V VI. It may be sufficient if I bring before you one other motive to the...

...inculcated by the gospel ; 'but .that it proverbially betrays a weak cause 1 " This wisdom dcscendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish;...strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work."— Ep. Gen. of St. James, c. iii. 184 Reflections on [CHAP. viu. After we have read his sermon on the...

...us not be desirous of vain-glory, provoking one another, envying one another. James 3. 14. 16. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. For where envying and strife is, there is eonfusion, and every evil work. ffj Psal. 112, 9. He hath...

...26.Let us not be desirous of vain-glory, provoking one another, envying one another. James iii. M But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the trulh. Ver. 16. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work. x Rom. vii....

...apostle before mentioned, in the third chapter, and 15th, 16th, and 17th verses. The words run thus : " This wisdom descendeth not from above ; but is earthly,...above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." "...

...knowledge, among you ; let him shew, out of a good eonversation, his works with meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom deseendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envy ing...

...the Lord must not strive .•" " The wrath of men worketh not the righteousness of God ,•" " Where strife is, there is confusion and every evil work ; but the wisdom that is from above, is peaceable, gentle, cosy to be entreated, full of mercy, •and without partiality." What ! it may be...

...says " come from the heart," that is, from some bad disposition there. And St. James, ver. 14, 15, " n; ؅/3 is not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish." The causes of the offences of the tongue are...