 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 538 pages
...is, there is confusion, and every evil work. But the. wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits. Every thing that appertains to holiness of heart, does indeed belong to the nature of true Christianity,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 616 pages
...evidence of a truly wise and good man: James iii. 17. " The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." And such are the signs of true Christianity, which the... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Christianity - 1817 - 416 pages
...and permanent than before. " The wisdom, 44 that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable -T •' gentle and easy to be intreated ; full of mercy and. "* good- fruits ; without partiality, and without hypo•"' crisy : and the fruit of righteousness is sown inr '"'... | |
 | Matthew Henry - Prayer - 1818 - 234 pages
...from beneath, which is earthly, sensual, devilish ; but wisdom from above, which is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.A O that we may always have our conversation in the world... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - Sermons, American - 1818 - 480 pages
...imagination of the wisdom which is from beneath. " The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy ;" but the wisdom which is from beneath is directly the reverse... | |
 | Thomas Andros - Sin - 1820 - 142 pages
...is, there is conCusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." Here is two kinds of wisdom mentioned, one is holiness,... | |
 | John Tillotson - Sermons, English - 1820 - 358 pages
...doctrine (which he calls the wisdom that is from above) by these characters, It is fast pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without. hypocrisy, James iii. 17. St. Peter calls the gospel, the knowledge... | |
 | 1820 - 590 pages
...expect to find in him, an exemplification of "the wisdom, which is from above; which is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocricy." With such rulers, have the inhabitants of this Commonwealth,... | |
 | Henry Belfrage - Lord's Supper - 1821 - 412 pages
...which conciliates prejudice, and the love which endureth all things. And by the wisdom which comes from above, which is pure and peaceable, gentle and easy to be entreated, and full of mercy, he gives one heart to his followers in all ages, and makes the society... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1821 - 624 pages
...uuii'ormly cherished and matured, is there exhibited as widely different from the wisdom which is " gentle and easy to be intreated, full of •• mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypo" crisy." — But are there no other means of promoting the purity,... | |
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But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 
