...which is given by St. James, has also been considered as prohibiting every species of warfare. " From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts, that war in your members ? Ye lust and have not : ye kill and desire to have, and cannot obtain...

...this answer, when in the first verse of his fourth chapter, he himself proposes the question ; " From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts, which war in your membersr" The passions of envy, ambition, avarice, coveting another's possessions,...

...in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Jam. iv. 1. From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ! (Exod. xxii. 42. see above.) Col. iii. 13. Forbearing one another,...

...Where religion and morals are disregarded, the internal peace of a nation cannot long be maintained. " Whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even from your lusts that war in your members ? " They are the natural and unavoidable results of impurity...

...from the doctrines of Christ. The Apostle James describes their origin with great precision. " From whence come wars and fightings among you. Come they not hence even of your lusts?" James iv. 1, &c. That church under whatever name it may have been known, which has originated,...

...suffer ourselves, and of those we bring upon others, arise from the dominion of our passions. " From whence " come wars and fightings among you ? " Come they not hence, even of your lusts, " which war in your members?" From whence come murders, robberies, oppression, and fraud ? Whence...

...unlawful. But so does war. For the sinfulness of its cause, we have an account of that in James iv. 1, Whence come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence, even of your lusts ? And for the unlawfulness of its effects, we need only survey our own experience, without recurring...

...that breeds quarrels and law-suits. Whence is all our contention, but for want of contentment ?* From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts? (James, iv. 1.) in particular, from this lust of discontent ? Why did Absalom raise a war against...

...place, strive to cut deep at the roots of your own selfishness. — " From whence," asks St. James, " come wars and fightings among you ? come they not hence even of your lusts ?" Do you ask by what spell the Apostle of the Gentiles collected and combined large masses of...

...&c. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. — James iii. 14—18. Whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts? &c. Speak not evil one of another, brethren. — James iv. 1. 11. Wherefore, laying aside all...