...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...therefore will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God. 5 Do ye think that the Scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy...

...eyes : there the pride of life. Moreover, I fipd it written in the Scripture, that " the Friendship of the world is enmity with God: whosoever, therefore, will be a friend of the world, is the e-nemy of God."f Oh, then, how necessary, how unspeakably » 1 Johnii. 15—17-. t James ir. 4. cause they...

...so prevalent among unregenerate men. " Know ye not," says the apostle James, " that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? Whosoever, therefore, will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God ;" James iv, 4. Such a circumspect and harmless walk in life is the inevitable consequence of...

...friends, says Christ, IP VE DO WHATSOEVER I COMMAND you. (John xiv. 15.) On the contrary, the friendship of the world is enmity with God : whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God. (James iv. 4.) 3. Equally satisfactory reasons may be assigned for the silence of the Gospel,...

...yet pleased men, 1 should not be the servant of Christ, Gal. i. 10. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? whosoever therefore will be a frioml of the world is the enemy of God, James iv. 4. Love not the world, neither the things that are...

...being the enemy of God, let us speak at once in the uncompromising tone of Scripture statement : " Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity...therefore, will be a friend of the world, is the enemy of God." Here the case is plainly stated betwixt the world and God. Here are two parties so opposed,...

...given unto us his Holy Spirit1. Saint Jaines asks with indignation, Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? Whosoever therefore will be the friend of the world is the enemy of Godk. Saint Peter speaks of profane seducers, as having among...

...given unto us his Holy Spirit'. Saint James asks with indignation, Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? Whosoever therefore will be the friend of the world is the enemy of God". Saint Peter sneaks of profane seducers, as having among...

...To apprise us of the hazard we run by courting its smile, the apostle James thus addresses us :—" Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God ? Whosoever therefore will be the friend of the world is the enemy of God " ." Can any reason be stronger than that which this fact...

...love of the Father is not in him. PROOF SUBJOINED.—James, iv. 4. Ye 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. 9. Q. What do you mean by the pomps and vanity of this wicked world ? A. They do most properly...