| John Newton, Richard Cecil - 1824 - 634 páginas
...loving mercy, and walking humbly with our God. SERMON XVIII. OF A LIVING AND A DEAD FAITH. JAMES ii. 26. For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. WHOEVER has read the Scriptures with attention, must have observed several passages which, at first... | |
| Martin Luther - 1824 - 586 páginas
...apostle James, in his Epistle, chap. ii. will have it : where he says, " Faith without works is dead. For as the body without the Spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also." Faith cannot be in a man and work nothing ; that is impossible. For faith is a living thing, and a... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1824 - 636 páginas
...clearly proves to be the main thing on which he meant to insist in these concise and emphatical words : ' For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also :' or, as I should render it, 'a faith without works;' that is, such a faith as is without works. The... | |
| Thomas Brooks - 1824 - 542 páginas
...my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and hath not works ? Can faith save him ? It cannot ; for as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. To look after holy and heavenly works, is the best way to preserve the soul from being deceived and... | |
| Colin McIver - 1824 - 434 páginas
...was fulfilled which " saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed *' unto him for righteousness. For as the body without " the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also." You see, then, Christian friends, the plan of that mercy, which God proposes to us, in the Gospel ;... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 páginas
...and I have works : show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works. For, as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. 5 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing. 6 And besides this, giving... | |
| Benjamin Moore - 1824 - 396 páginas
...of the excellency of Christianity, of the strength and purity of our faith in all its doctrines; " for as the body without the " spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also." The scoffer, to encourage himself in his own evil ways. reasons in this manner- — " There is the... | |
| William PROCTER (Incumbent of Doddington, Northumberland.) - 1824 - 210 páginas
...criterion by which we can ascertain whether our faith be of the true description or not, is its fruits ; " for as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also."1 It may, however, be useful to consider, what Is the difference in the principle itself, between... | |
| William Carpenter - 1825 - 572 páginas
...called the Friend of God. Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by...the messengers, and had sent them out another way? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also, Jam. ii. 17—86.... | |
| George Townsend - 1825 - 808 páginas
...justified by ""?' ai5' works, when she had received the messengers, and had Vnlarar^Era. ; , • 62. sent them out another way ? 26 For as the body without...spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. § 6. JAMES iii. 1 — 12. St. James again cautions the Christian Jews not to undertake the Office... | |
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