...inclinations, their examples, their writings all say, " The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. If ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts,...strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work/' As we have no direct authority to persecute, so we have no prescription, or rules authorized by custom....

...Rev. «u. 15. soever loveth and maketh a lie," Again, " But if ye have bitter envyings and Jame« mu strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against...strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work." — " From whence come James iv. i, wars among you ? come they not hence, even of the lusts of the...

...speaking of that wisdom which is from above, says, " If ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearis, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom...earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife" are, "there is confusion, and every evil work. But the wisdom " which " is from above, is first pure,...

...v. 22, 23. The Apostle James, speaking of that wisdom which is from above, says, " If ye have hitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and...truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but M earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife" are, " there is confusion, and every evil...

...knowledge among you ? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and...

...dirt ;' Isaiah Ivii. 20. — He is a stranger to peace, and all the blessed fruits and effects of it ; for, where ' envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work ;' James iii. 16. — His mind is- continually restless and uneasy, agitated to and fro with the violent...

...sin is death. SERMON XVII. ON THE WICKEDNESS AND MISERY OF ENVY AND CONTENTION. JAMES, iii. 16. — For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. THE world was originally created in great beauty and order ; but the disobedience of its inhabitants...

...were affectionate and kind towards one another and towards their children. An apostle tells us that ' where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.' Now, as far as I ever knew, there was very little either of envying or strife in that poor family ;...

...not false accusers (or makebates). — Titns ii. 3. 228 Follow peace with all men. — Heb. xii. 14. If ye have bitter envying, and strife in your hearts : glory not, &c. This wisdom descendeth not from above, &c. for where envying and strife is, there is confusion...

...evidently tending to our peace and comfort even hi this life; for, as the Apostle James tells us, " where envying and' strife is, there is confusion and every evil work." Reflections of this nature were brought forcibly to my mind a few days ago, on paying a visit to some...