| John Tillotson - 1748 - 458 pages
...courfe, fo as we may be perfect and enure, wanting nothing. Jam. i. 5. If any of you lack niiflom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it /hall be given him. I proceed to the Third and laft part of the text, which is the reafon... | |
| Thomas Scott - 1805 - 566 pages
...passage, as I remember, which made me suspect that I might be wrong, was James i. 5, " If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of " God, who giveth to all men liberally, and up" braideth not, and it shall be given him." On considering these words with some attention, I became... | |
| Ely Bates - 1807 - 426 pages
...will not finally be left to perish for want of knowledge. If any one lack wisdom, says the apostle, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not *. This spirit of prayer is not suspended on scientific researches or learned preparations, and... | |
| Thomas Belsham - 1808 - 656 pages
...have its perfect work : that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 5 Now if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not ; and 6 it shall be given him. But let him ask in f faith, nothing doubting. For he that doubteth... | |
| John Wesley - 1809 - 512 pages
...we prayed, and I read the first chapter of St. James, and spoke a little on those words, If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not. And two more of our brethren testified, by their own experience, that he is a God of truth. They... | |
| 1809 - 658 pages
...have its perfect work : that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 5 Now if uny of you want wisdom, let him ask of God, •who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not ; and 6 it shall be given him. But let him ask in t faith, nothing doubting. For he that doubtcth... | |
| 1809 - 670 pages
...have its perfect work : that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 5 Now if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraidcth not ; and 6 it shall be given him. But let him ask in f faith, nothing doubting. For he... | |
| Thomas Scott - 1810 - 498 pages
...scriptures, with earnest prayer for divine instruction, according to the apostle's exhortation, " If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, " who giveth to all men liberally i and upbraideth " not." — But let it be also remembered, that multitudes study religion as a science,... | |
| Ezra Stiles Ely - 1811 - 302 pages
...Christ Jesus — — gave himself a ransom for all." Peter, in his 3d Epistle, iii. ch. 9th ver says, the Lord is "not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance ;" and consequently be saved, through the universal redemption. Rom. v. 18. "As by the offence of one, the... | |
| Thomas Scott - 1811 - 824 pages
...nothing yet, as he ought to know."3 " Christ " Jesus, — of God is made unto 'us wisdom." "n " any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who " giveth to all men liberally."4 ' Do not err, my be' loved brethren, every good gift and every perfect ' gift is from... | |
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