 | John Stark Ravenscroft (bp. of North Carolina.) - 1830 - 642 pages
...it, as to render excuse inexcusable. If any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the...will be a friend of the world is the enemy of GOD. Yes, indeed, ye know it ; but ye beg to be excused from taking heed either to the warning or the invitation.... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 566 pages
...my disciple. Whoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple." " Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity...will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God." (James iv. 4.) No wonder then if the world must be renounced in our baptism. " Love not the world,... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 560 pages
...my disciple. Whoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple." " Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity...will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God." (James iv. 4.) No wonder then if the world must be renounced in our baptism. " Love not the world,... | |
 | John Wesley - 1830 - 568 pages
...business requires. Friendship or intimacy with them, St. James does not scruple to term adultery : " Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not, that...enmity with God? Whosoever, therefore, will be a friend to the world, is an enemy of God." Do not endeavour to shuffle away, or evade the meaning of those... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 626 pages
...the very blood and spirit by which thou livest. Still remember that of the Spirit, "The friendship of the world is enmity with God : whosoever, therefore,...will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God." (James iv. 4.) And, " Love not the world, nor the things of the world : if any love the world, the... | |
 | Benjamin Scott - 1831 - 460 pages
...God — it is to pay more regard to the creature than to the Creator. And what says the scripture? " Know ye not that the friendship of the " world is...therefore, will be a friend of the world is " the enemy of God"1— and " Who art thou," said the Lord, by his prophet Isaiah, " that " thou shouldest be afraid... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...devilish ; for where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work. Ja. iii. 15, 16. goods. He. x. 34. By faith Moses refused to be called...greater riches than the treasures in Egypt ; for h Ja. iv. 4. 28 Wilt thou then that we go, Src.] Master (said John}, we saw one casting out devils in... | |
 | John Hall - 1832 - 504 pages
...gospel of Christ have been long enjoyed. St. James addresses such persons in the most solemn language, Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the...therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.6 The love of this present evil world, and the love of God cannot possibly subsist together.... | |
 | 1832 - 702 pages
...deserve peculiar consideration, on account of the use sometimes made of them. Thus St. James says, ' Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity...will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God ;' and St. John affirms that ' if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.' Similar... | |
 | John Henry Hobart, William Berrian - 1862 - 540 pages
...righteousness and joy. SERMON XXXI. THE FRIENDSHIP OP THE WORLD ENMITY WITH GOD. JAMES iv. 4. The friendship of the world is enmity with God: whosoever therefore...will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. THIS is a hard saying, my brethren, if literally understood — who can bear it ? But surely it was... | |
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Ye adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 
