...every branch of his worship. Which is the meaning of this passage in James; " Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." (r) It is true, indeed (as we shall presently again see), that the prayers of the faithful depend not...

...cannot obtain : ye fight and war, yet ye hâve not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and reçoive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adultérasses, kuow ye not that thé l'amour du monde est une inimitié contre...

...blessings, Hosea ii. 8 — 13. The same conduct is also reprobated, James iv. 3, " Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." While we should use none of our substance against God, a part of it should be directly given to him....

...and cannot obtain ; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not ; because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts*. Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted,...

...cannot obtain : ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because cause ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it. upon your lusts." How much is contained in these few words ! We see here the reason of the disappointment in which human...

...ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. James iv. 3. Ye ash and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. Matt. vi. 31—33. Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink ?...

...further characteristick of acceptable prayer, that it must proceed from right motives Nothing is muro common than to ask for lawful objects from improper...credit in the world. Perhaps they desired to be saved fnom.the violence of persecution, not that they might serve God with less distraction, or extend farther...

...but to my want," should be every Christian's prayer. "Ye ask," says 8t. Jumea, "anil receive i ot, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." The love of Gwl forbids the granting such* petitions. I may cnnclutle with remarking;, that the theory...

...and cannot obtain : ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity withGod? whosoever...

...that war in your members ? ye lust, and have not : ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain ; because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." Here we find, in our own ungoverned passions and lusts, the source of those great evils, which fill...