...intimacy with them, St. James does not scruple to term adultery. " Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not, that the friendship of the world is enmity...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...

...conclusion they might justly draw. And it shews alienation from the life of God too : for " the friendship of the world is enmity with God. Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God;" and he that hates Zion shall be desolate. And surely he must be a friend to the world who...

...brimstone. 'SERMON JLXXXV. ON FRIENDSHIP WITH THE WORLD. JAMES IV. 4. Ye Adulterers and Adulteresses, know ye not that the Friendship of the World is Enmity with GOD ? Whosoever, therefore, desireth to be a Friend of the World, is an Enemy of GOD." 1. THERE is a passage in St. Paul's Epistle...

...James iv. 4. Ye adulterers, and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the -world is £nmlty with God! Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world, is the enemy ofGotL THERE is a boldness of speech, which, not. dhly comports well with the character of God's ambassadors/...

...apostate ; " Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world." It is the criterion of an enemy to God ; " Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God." Quot. This complaint is not confined to the closet; it is like the plague, every part is affected...

...evil." The apostle James, too, in strong, stern language, says, " Те adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity...therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God." It may be freely admitted that the world with which we have to do iâ not so bad a world as...

...world. If any w» love the world, the love of the Father • not in him,' 1 John ii. IS. ' Know ya not that the friendship of the world is enmity with...therefore, will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of Gud,' James iv. 4. ' If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive...

...in him .•" and if no love, then enmity : " He that is not with me is against me." " The friendship of the world is enmity with God ; whosoever therefore will be A friend of the world is the enemy of God." " Either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise...

...thine. 59. The Influence of the World a Test of our spiritual State. * Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with, God? Whosoever therefore will be a jriend of the world is the enemy of God, James 4. 4. 1 Tim. 5. 6. Eph. 3. 171 OUR. blessings all from...

...the enemy of God. And this is taught also by the apostle James : " The friendship of the world i» enmity with God : whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God."* When I speak of supreme love to the world, I mean nothing different from supreme self-love....