| 310 pages
...declares this friendship with the world is spiritual adultery : read what the Spirit says by James. "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that...world is enmity with God ? whosoever, therefore, will bo a friend of the world is an enemy of God." " Indirect furthering " is a process un discoverable... | |
| 1802 - 374 pages
...and desire to have, and canlot obtain : ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye 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 die friendhip of the world is enmity with Jod ?... | |
| 1842
...pride, luxury, and selfishness. St. James very forcibly rebukes such petitioners, in the words, " Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." (James iv. 3.) The glory of God should be our great aim, in our use and enjoyment of whatever temporal... | |
| William Huntington - 1802 - 522 pages
...vii. 5. " They tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their lust," Psal. Ixxviii. 18. " Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it on your lusts," James iv. 3. Secondly, The increasing and carrying on the work of sanctification is... | |
| 1804 - 476 pages
...desire to have, and cannot obtain : ve fight and 3 F war, yet ye have not, because ye 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 friendship of the world is enmity with God ?... | |
| Thomas Vincent - 1806 - 308 pages
...things may we praf unto God? A. 1. We may not pray unto Gcd for any sinful desires, James iv. 4. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss ; that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 2. We may and ought to pray unto God only for such things as are agreeable unto his will, 1 John v.... | |
| Hugh Gaston - 1807 - 550 pages
...we ask any thing according to his will he heareth us. Ver. 15. See 2 Sum. vii. 27. James iv. 3. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. CLXXXIII. for daily brcud. Matt vi. 1 1. Give us this day our dally bread. 1 Tim. iv. 5. Every creature... | |
| Philip Doddridge - 1807 - 428 pages
...Ye covet, and have not : ye kill, and ye earnestly desire, and cannot'obtain : ye fight, 3 ye wage war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not [the thing you desire] because ye ask amiss, that ye may 4 squander them away upon your lusts. Ye adulterers,... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...with each other. IV. 2 Ye lust, and ha\e not : ye kill, and desire to have, and cartnot obtain : ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye long after others' commodities, and go without them : ye are rancorously and murderously affected to... | |
| James Macknight - 1810 - 586 pages
...what they strongly tieand cannot obtain : ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye 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 friendship of the world is enmity with God?... | |
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