| Noah Worcester - 1816 - 814 sidor
...additionally bound to cultivate, exemplify, and recommend that " wisdom from above, which is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated ; full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy;" that, as the disastrous effects of an opposite behaviour... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 616 sidor
...insists on, as the proper evidence of a truly wise and good man: James iii. 17. " The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." And such are the signs of true Christianity, which the... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 538 sidor
...where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work. But the. wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and...easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits. Every thing that appertains to holiness of heart, does indeed belong to the nature of true Christianity,... | |
| Thomas Scott - 1817 - 416 sidor
...and permanent than before. " The wisdom, 44 that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable -T •' gentle and easy to be intreated ; full of mercy and. "* good- fruits ; without partiality, and without hypo•"' crisy : and the fruit of righteousness is sown inr '"'... | |
| Hosea Ballou - 1818 - 480 sidor
...and the false is the vain imagination of the wisdom which is from beneath. " The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy ;" but the wisdom which is from beneath is directly the reverse... | |
| Matthew Henry - 1818 - 234 sidor
...that from beneath, which is earthly, sensual, devilish ; but wisdom from above, which is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.A O that we may always have our conversation in the world... | |
| Thomas Andros - 1820 - 142 sidor
...For where envying and strife is, there is conCusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and...easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." Here is two kinds of wisdom mentioned, one is holiness,... | |
| John Tillotson - 1820 - 358 sidor
...Christian doctrine (which he calls the wisdom that is from above) by these characters, It is fast pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without. hypocrisy, James iii. 17. St. Peter calls the gospel, the knowledge... | |
| 1820 - 590 sidor
...expect to find in him, an exemplification of "the wisdom, which is from above; which is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocricy." With such rulers, have the inhabitants of this Commonwealth,... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1821 - 624 sidor
...uuii'ormly cherished and matured, is there exhibited as widely different from the wisdom which is " gentle and easy to be intreated, full of •• mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypo" crisy." — But are there no other means of promoting the purity,... | |
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