...better world, which God hath prepared for them that love him." From whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ? — Epistle of James, chap. iv. 1. " The love of the world is undoubtedly that prolific source whence...

...&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 letter is, that nations have been...

...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 under its influence to be the...

...continued to display the highest antipathy to Christianity. " Whence," says he, " come wars and fightings ? 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, because ye ask amiss, that...

...and fightings ?" enquires a wise Apostle, ( James iv. 1) and he answers by asking the question, — " Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ?" Wars come from lust, the lust of power, fame, gold, land, or (dearer than all to the natural heart)...

...we ma/ overcome them, and gain God'« favour. TC^ROM whence come wars -*- and fightings among you t come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ! 2 Ye lust and have not : ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain : ye fight and war, yet ye...

...some whom he was reproving fortheir unchristian conduct : and he answers himself, by asking them, " Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ?"'* This accords precisely with the argument that we urge. Christ forbade the passions which lead...

...inflicts upon himself and his own species. " From whence," saith the apostle, " come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ?" Storms and tem* Young's Night Thoughts. pests, hurricanes and earthquakes, are not more manifest...

...to no man evil for evil." — Rom. chap. 12, ver. 17. " From whence come wars and fightings amongst you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ?" " For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare...

...the realm. Almost every page of history is polluted with blood. " Whence come wars and fightings ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts, that war in your members?" Pride, lust, and envy, have in all ages conspired against the peace of society, and disturbed the repose...