...influence.— The question, " whence come wars and fightings among you ?" he answers by another question — " come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ?" • Self-love thus pnsh'd to social, to divine. Gives thee to make thy neighbour's blessing thine,...

...parties, and to all our contentions. For, front whence come wars andj<ghtiugs among you, says the apostle, Come they not hence even of your lusts, that war in your members. If our lusts therefore were mortified, there would be an end to all wars and contentions. And it love...

...in my text. James makes a distinction between the members of the body and sin that works in them. " From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence 5 even of your lusts, that war in your members?" This evil principle goes by various names in scripture....

...likewise, that the first ten verses of ch. iv. are addressed to unbelieving Jews — Where it is said, whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they...and have not. Ye kill and desire to have, and cannot oltain. Yefight and war. These things could not be said to Christians. They must relate to those disturbances,...

...the enquiry of the apostle J acnes, and the answer which accompanies it, may be justly applied : " Whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts. Ye lust, and have not; ye kill aad desire to have; ye fight and yet ye cannot obtain." If this be founded...

...emphatically demonstrates in dhap. iv. 1-3 — querying—- *' From whence come wars and fightings? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye Just, mid have not; jc kil!3 and desire to have, and cannot obtain; ye fight, and war, yet ye have...

...enquiry of the apostle James, and the answer which accompanies it, may be justly applied : " Whencfe come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts. Ye lust, and have not; ye kill and desire to have; ye fight and war, yet ye cannot obtain." Jf this...

...heareth not sinners ; but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doth his will, him he heareth. (V) Ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. («) He that...

...possessions by invading the property of their weaker neighbours. " From " whence," says St. James, " come wars " and fightings among you ? come they "...hence, even of your lusts that war " in your members." But what are frauds committed under the specious name of war compared with those acts of dishonesty...

...The apostle James gives an account of men's wickedness perfectly consistent with this description. " Whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts, that war hi your members ? Ye lust and have not, ye kill and desire to have and cannot obtain." And why do they...