...influence of which is owing much the greatest part of the vice and misery that desolate mankind. " From whence come " wars and fightings among you? Come they " not hence, even of your lusts, which war " in your members?"* From whence (may we add) come murders, frauds, breaches of trust, violations...

...engenders and nourishes the vilest passions of a fallen nature. "From whence come wars and fight" ings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lusts, that " war in your members ?." And again ; " When lust hath con" ceived, it bringeth forth sin ; and sin, when it is finished,...

...unlawful. But so does war. For the sinfulness of its cause, we have an account of that in James iv. 1, Whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lusts ? And for the unlawfulness of its effects, we need only survey our own experience, without recurring...

...place, strive to cut deep at the roots of your own selfishness. — " From whence," asks St. James, " come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence even of your lusts ?" Do you ask by what spell the Apostle of the Gentiles collected and combined large masses of a quarrelsome...

...war is to be viewed equally in both lights. Whence come wars and fightings amongst you, says James, come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members * ? It is within the human breast that this mighty mischief is conceived. There the fire is lighted...

...able to satisfy the immortal soul. ' From whence come wars and fightings among you ?' says St. James, 'Come they not hence, even of your lusts, that war...desire to have, and cannot obtain : ye fight and war ; ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, to consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers, and...

...able to satisfy the immortal soul. ' From whence come wars and fightings among you ?' says St. James, 'Come they not hence, even of your lusts, that war...desire to have, and cannot obtain : ye fight and war ; ye ask, and receiTe not, because ye ask amiss, to consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers, and...

...able to satisfy the immortal soul. ' From whence come wars and fightings among you ?' says St. James, 'Come they not hence, even of your lusts, that war...desire to have, and cannot obtain : ye fight and war ; ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, to consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers, and...

...quarrels, and foreign wars. " From whence come wars and fightings among you ?" says the Apostle ; " come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in...not : ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain ; because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." Here we find, in our own ungoverned...

...corrupted temper of heart, they are ascribed correctly. They are ascribed where scripture ascribes them. " From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come...hence even of your lusts, that war in your members?" " Only by pride cometh contention." If those,who call upon themselves the name of Christ,did but possess...