| Joshua Toulmin - 1803 - 210 pages
...but he, whose bosom is possessed, whose heart is governed by that wisdom which is from above ; which is " first pure, then " peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full " of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, " and without hypocrisy." Would ye then have the fruit of the... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1804 - 352 pages
...at all. The wisdom from above is the true Christian philosophy; that wisdom which, we are told*, " is first pure, then peaceable, " gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good " fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." Hardness of heart is incompatible with... | |
| Benjamin Beddome - 1807 - 546 pages
...him, and the outward change will be as evident as the inward change is real. "The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." A man may have every other' kind of wisdom,... | |
| Thomas Belsham - 1808 - 656 pages
...where enav and strife ore, there disturbance is, and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom which is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of pity and * the tongue is a spark, the varnisher of injustice Wakefield. f Gr. the wliecL " Setteth... | |
| 1809 - 658 pages
...where envy and strife are, there disturbance is, and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom which is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of pity and * the tongue is a spark, the vamhhcr of Injustice: WakenVkL t Or. the wheel. >• Setteth... | |
| 1809 - 454 pages
...before them the pages revealing the " wisdom, that is from above ; that is profitable to direct ; that is first pure, then, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." By giving them the bible, you give them... | |
| 1841 - 606 pages
...and benevolent, zealous and devout, in him was exemplified the wisdom that cometh from above, that is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. He retired from the itinerant work in the... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1812 - 420 pages
...and in other parts of this Book, to denote true religion; or that wisdom, which is from above, which is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy Some suppose, that the wisdom speaking in... | |
| John Wesley - 1813 - 470 pages
...bitter zeal and strife 17 is, there is unquietness and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, V. 6. A world of iniquity— Containing an immense quantity of all manner of wickedness... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 616 pages
...him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. . . . The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy" (Jas. iii. 13, 17). How true the words... | |
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