| William Butcher (rector of Ropsley.) - 1816 - 272 pages
...not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." And again, " What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works ? Can faith (a dead, unprolific faith, he means) save him ? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily... | |
| Jean Calvin - 1816 - 524 pages
...concession which derogates nothing from the argument: this he shews from the beginning in these words; " What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works?" (ri) He does not say, If any one have faith without works; but, If any one boast of having it. He speaks... | |
| 1816 - 458 pages
...What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath zeal and feeling, — and have not works ? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you, under the impulse of the tenderest meltings of sympathy, and in accents scft as the descending dew... | |
| 1816 - 432 pages
...What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath zeal and feeling, — and have not works ? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you, under the impulse of the tenderest melting* of sympathy, and in accents soft as the 'descending dew... | |
| 1816 - 56 pages
...establish, and he asserts it in the strongest terms a few verses before, by asking : " what doth it profit, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works ; can faith save him?'•''* How then does Mr. Simeon encounter this plain refutation of his opinion ? Let us hear himself: " St.... | |
| 1816 - 844 pages
...: (ii. i, 16.) " If a brother or fiftcr be'naked,' and deftilute of daily food, and one of you fay unto them depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled, Notwithstanding ye give 1,'jem no) Iboft things which art need/a! to. tie body, • what doth it profit?" 4. " That'giving'to-tbe... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 538 pages
...Jam. ii. 1 3 — Ifi. For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath sltewed no mercy. — • What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say...and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be you warmed and filled : notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body... | |
| Samuel Cole, Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Maryland - 1817 - 462 pages
...we were as sheep going astray, but now are we returned to the shepherd and bishop of our souls. 5. If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily...in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding yc give them not of those things, which arc needful to the body, what doth it profit? 6. To do good,... | |
| 1817 - 610 pages
...and if those that do not believe shall be damned, so those that do not obey shall likewise perish. "What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say...hath faith, and have not works, can faith save him?" Verily, "faith without works is dead." Was not Abraham justified by his works, when he had offered... | |
| William Sharpe - 1817 - 160 pages
...passage of the apostle James will answer the purpose most completely; " What doth it profit," he asks, " though a man say he hath faith, and have not works ; can faith save him ?"* Both faith and works, therefore, are indispensible conditions of final justification, or salvation.... | |
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