| William Romaine - Christian life - 1830 - 650 pages
...as the apostle James testifies, writing to the twelve tribes in their dispersion and affliction : " My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers...this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." God be... | |
| Henry Moore - 1830 - 468 pages
...of His holiness :" " It yields the peaceable fruits of righteousness." Therefore, says St. James, " My brethren, count it all joy, when ye fall into divers...this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience." " The God of all grace, after you have suffered awhile," says St. Peter, " make you perfect, stablish,... | |
| George Whitefield - 1830 - 314 pages
...commination, (besides solemn prayer and psalms three times,) and enlarged on these words of St. James, " My brethren, count it all joy, when ye fall into divers...this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience : but let patience have her perfect work." I hope this had a good effect upon my hearers' hearts, and... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 588 pages
...temptations or trials, explains itself to mean thereby, the trial or experiment of their faith, Jam. i. 2, 3. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers...temptations ; knowing this, that the trying of your faith * 2 Cor. viii. 2. Heb.xi.38. 1 Pet. i. 7. Chap. iv. 12. Gen. xxii. 1. Dcut. viii. 2, 16. Chap. xiii.... | |
| Martin Luther - Lutheran Church - 1830 - 216 pages
...shame for his name." James saith in his epistle, chap. i. 2. " My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations : knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. And let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." O how... | |
| William Hales - Bible - 1830 - 1222 pages
...that \ve may be able tu support it," 1 Cor. x. 13. • It is in the former sense of the word, that the Apostle James says, " My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into various trials, [like the Apostles themselves, Acts v. 41,] knowing that the proof of your faith... | |
| William Hales - Bible - 1830 - 682 pages
...outlet, that we may be able to support it," 1 Cor. x. 13. It is in the former sense of the word, that the Apostle James says, " My brethren, count it all joy when ye fell into varioiut trials, [like the Apostles themselves, Acts v. 41,] knowing that the proof of your... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Election (Doctrine of)s - 1831 - 666 pages
...temptations or trials, explains itself to mean thereby the trial and experiment of their faith : " My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers...this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience." " Now for a season ye are in heaviness, through manifold temptations ; that the trial of your faith... | |
| Henry Cogswell Knight - Sermons, American - 1831 - 280 pages
...world is a world of probation ; this tempting world, but a trial of our faith. Therefore, says James, my brethren, count it all joy, when ye fall into divers...this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. And again, If any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but commit his soul unto God in... | |
| Algernon Sydney Thelwall - 1831 - 152 pages
...revenge ! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter." 2 Cor. vii. 8—11. " My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers...this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." James... | |
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