| Eli Meeker (Rev) - 1827 - 414 pages
...St. James then elucidates, by an allusion to an inactive and worthless benevolence. If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily food, and one...peace ; be ye warmed and filled, notwithstanding ye gave them not those things which are needful to the body, what doth it profit ? As such philanthropy... | |
| William Paley - Theology - 1828 - 610 pages
...benevolence, philanthrophy, love to all mankind, goodness of heart," &c. Hear St. James : " If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and...which are needful to the body: what doth it profit?" (James ii. 15, 16.) 4. " That givmg to the poor is not mentioned in St. Paul's description of charity,... | |
| Presbyterianism - 1828 - 596 pages
...demonstrations the most unequivocal. Let the apostle James illustrate this subject. ' If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily food, and one...which are needful to the body, what doth it profit?' And may we not with equal justice say, what will your prayers profit, if they be the offspring of a... | |
| 1828 - 828 pages
...not works? can faith save him ? 15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be...things which are needful to the body, what doth, it prefit ? 17 Even so faith, if il hath not works, is dead, being alone. 13 Yea, a man may say, Thou... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...general principle of this rule, whenever one voice is to represent two persons, thus ; If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and...and filled ; notwithstanding ye give them not those thing which are needful to the body ; what doth it profit ? Here the sense is entirely suspended to... | |
| William Paley - Ethics - 1828 - 532 pages
...&c. Hear St. James: "If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you eay unto them, Depart in peace; be ye warmed and filled;...which are needful to the body ; what doth it profit ?" (James, ii. 15, 16.) 4. " That giving to the poor is not mentioned in St. Paul's description of... | |
| John Stanford - Older people - 1829 - 474 pages
...bestow relief. The picture of such an one is drawn in the New Testament to real life. If a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily food, and one....which are needful to the body, what doth it profit ? For whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of... | |
| John Everitt Good - Sermon on the mount - 1829 - 692 pages
...brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works ? Can faith save him ? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and...which are needful to the body ; what doth it profit ? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone."* And, finally, I enforce the possession... | |
| James Stuart M. Anderson - 1829 - 776 pages
...promote their temporal as well as their eternal welfare. For as St. James saith, " If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and...notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful for the body ; What doth it profit ? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone*." Active... | |
| William Swan - Missionaries - 1830 - 372 pages
...glory, and to the best interests of his rational offspring." Compare with this James ii. 15, 16. " If a brother or a sister be naked and destitute of...which are needful to the body, what doth it profit? Even so faith if it hath not works is dead being alone." Now I leave you to judge what is the worth... | |
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