 | 1768 - 514 pages
...humble hearts, and docile underftandings, receive and imbibe that wifdom of God defcending " from above, which is firft pure, then peaceable, gentle, and eafy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrify." 'From our former refearches... | |
 | William Penn - 1782 - 514 pages
...learned in books, but few of the fticklers gave any great teftimony of their proficiency in that fcience, which is firft pure, then peaceable, gentle, and eafy to be intreated. This flame, kindled between Arminius and Epifcopius, &c. for the Remonftrants, and Gomarus, Sibrandus,... | |
 | William Melmoth - 1787 - 166 pages
...Evitfpeaking, with all Malice \ and endeaJam. iii. vours to attain that Wiflom which- » *•?'' from -above, which is firft pure, then peaceable, gentle, and eafy to be intreated, full of Mercy and good Fruits. And this Principle of Love, and Charity, and Good-will to Mankind, as... | |
 | Henry Scougal - 1792 - 176 pages
...zeal for God, when they are enraged with fury againft thofe who are in any error, how grofs ibever, to retire their minds to an inward ferious contemplating...and eafy to be intreated. Therefore if we fee any uefiling themfelves with all the abominations which this age wallows in, we ought indeed to exprefs... | |
 | 1801 - 504 pages
...fince the commencement of the awakening, thefrjiits have been. the efFeft of that wifdom from above, which " is firft pure, then peaceable, gentle, and eafy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrify." The preaching, in thefe fettlements,... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1803 - 244 pages
...Let cur wifdom be not that from beneath, which is earthly, fenfual, devilifh ; but wifdom from above, which is firft pure, then peaceable, gentle, and eafy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrify *. O that we may always have... | |
 | 1802 - 496 pages
...fince the commencement of the awakening, the fruit? hare been the effect of that wifdom from above, which " is firft pure, then peaceable, gentle, and eafy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocriiy." The preaching, in the(e fettlercents,... | |
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... they will find; that the more they are filled with the fulnefs of God, the more meek, tender-hearted and gentle they are; and from this they may be convinced that fuch heats are not of God,' nor of that wifdom, which is firft pure, then peaceable,... 