| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 520 pages
...observes, that a man must necessarily be the enemy of the true God, if he be a friend of the world. " Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity...therefore will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God." James iv. All the sin that men commit, is what they do in the service of their idols : There... | |
| An inquirer - Bible - 1809 - 158 pages
...have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain ; ye fight, and war, and yet ye have not." " Ye adulterers, and adulteresses ! know ye not that...with God ? whosoever, therefore, will be a friend to the world, is an enemy of God." From this we think it evidently appears, that the warlike spirit... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 578 pages
...enemy of the true God, if he be a friend of the world. " Know ye not that the friendship of the n orld is enmity with God ? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the \vo:ild, is the enemy of God.'' James iv. Ail the sin that men commit, is what they do in the service... | |
| Charles Simeon - Sermons - 1810 - 544 pages
...James iv. 4. ' 3 Cor. vi. 17, 18. CCCXCIX. FRIENDSHIP OF THE WORLD IS ENMITY WITH GOD. James iv. 4. Te adulterers, and adulteresses, know ye not that the...therefore will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God. THERE is a boldness of speech, which, not only comports well with the character of God's ambassadors^... | |
| John Bevans - Religious education of children - 1810 - 134 pages
...of the world, but 1 have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. James Iv. 4. Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity...therefore will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God. 1. John ii. 15. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love... | |
| Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1810 - 608 pages
...and enemies in your minds by wicked works, he hath now reconciled." St. James says, "The friendship of the world is enmity with God. Whosoever therefore will be a. friend of the world, is the enemy of God." True religion consists in the conformity, wickedness in the contrariety of the soul to the... | |
| Hugh McNeile - Bible - 1810 - 296 pages
...world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.7' James iv. 4, "The friendship of the world is enmity with God ; whosoever, therefore, will be a friend of the world, he is the enemy of God." 2. Cor. vi. 17, *c Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate,... | |
| James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 586 pages
...ivickedly ; having no view therein but to draw money from them, that ye may spend it ufion your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the wicked, gained by partaking with them in their vices, is enmity against GoH. Whomever therefore, will... | |
| Thomasen Head - Children - 1811 - 48 pages
...world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Be not conformed to this world : Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity...therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God." Heavenlj-mindedness. \ HAVE fixed all my love, joy, and delight, upon Heaven, and heavenly... | |
| John Wesley - Methodism - 1811 - 516 pages
...business requires. Friendship or intimacy with them, St. James does not scruple to term adultery. " Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not, that...with God ? Whosoever, therefore, will be a friend to the world, is an enemy of God." Do not endeavour to shuffle away, or evade the meaning of those... | |
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