...beautiful developement of our moral virtues, remembering that the wisdom which guides us is Jirst pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. When the pious members of the Establish- , ment, and the various...

...coming not from above," but as being earthly, sr usual, devilish. That is Jirst pure, then peaceablr, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy : this works " bitter /.eal and strife in the heart." The fruit of...

...it is the character of that " wisdom from above," in which you are to be proficients, that it " is gentle and " easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good " fruits." Could the efficacy of Christianity in softening the heart be denied by those, who saw in the instance...

...envying and strife, &c. this wisdom desceudeth not from above, but is, &c. The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, &c. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. — James iii. 14, 15....

...envying and strife, &c. this wisdom desceudeth not from above, but is, &c. Thp wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, &c. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. — James ,.i. 14, 15....

...where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 1 7 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy...intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that...

...And when the heart is really made wise unto salvation, then does it become, as St. James saith, pure, peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated ; full...fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. And then does the Christian love God supremely, and his brethren as himself ; keeping the unity of the...

...— St. James teaches us (chap. iii. 17.) that true Wisdom is "from above; pure and peaceable, pentie sh@7 0 partiality, and without hypocrisy." Such is the Wisdom now before us; and the blessings that (ill her...

...James, Peter and John ; but we see him heeding neither the declaration of James, that ' the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits ;' nor the exhortation of Peter, to ' have fervent love above all things ;' nor the reasoning of John,...

...never be confounded. 236 THE WISDOM FROM ABOVE. " But the wisdom that is from ahove, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy, and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy." — James, iii. 17. HAST thou this wisdom from above, Pure, gentle,...