| Ebenezer Erskine, Donald Fraser - 1836 - 612 pages
...apostle James, chap. iv. 4, has a word to this purpose, " Know ye not (saith he,) that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever, therefore,...will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God." From whence it is plain, that that man that will stand upon the Lord's side, must resolve to have the... | |
| Mennonites - 1837 - 476 pages
...unfaithful, and break their covenant with HIM, and do sot pay the vow which they have vowed : as James saith, Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the...will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. (James 4: 4.) Farthermore must the young disciples continue steadfastly in the doctrine of Christ and... | |
| Joseph Hall - 1837 - 630 pages
...and the good of others, but only to spend it upon your own intemperate lusts and pleasures. IV. 4. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the...will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. O ye vain men, that are thus palpably corrupted with the love of the world, having formerly plighted... | |
| 1837 - 556 pages
...ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the...will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 6 But... | |
| Joseph Hall - 1837 - 624 pages
...and the good of others, but only to spend it upon your own intemperate lusts and pleasures. IV. 4. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the...will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. O ye vain men, that are thus palpably corrupted with the love of the world, having formerly plighted... | |
| Henry Thornton - 1837 - 342 pages
...with it is thegreat difficulty. But we must break with it, if we would become the friends of GOD. " Ye adulterers, and adulteresses, know ye not that...therefore will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of Goo."J Let us then follow the LORD fully. Let us follow Him, and not the world ; Him, and not our... | |
| Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1837 - 284 pages
...opened the Bible. — " It is at the fourth chapter of the Epistle of St. James, the fourth verse, ' Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity...will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God.'" — "Yes, yes," replied Lady Chesterton, "but the world there spoken of was the heathen world ; we... | |
| Baptist Wriothesley Noel - 1837 - 56 pages
...the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.% Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity...will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God.§ If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if ye forgive not... | |
| Joseph Jones - 1837 - 362 pages
...principles, feelings, objects, conduct, and end. True piety produces a separation from the world. " Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity...will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God." Our baptismal engagement is to "renounce the world with its pomps and vanity." If we fulfil this engagement,... | |
| Rev. Thomas Scott - 1837 - 432 pages
...people from this present evil world. And how necessary this is, we may it is said, " The friendship of the world is enmity with God ? whosoever therefore...will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God." l Yet, wicked as the world is, wicked as we know it to be, still it exercises a most extraordinary... | |
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