 | John Angell James - Children - 1827 - 196 pages
...piety, and to dispose you to embrace it. This is the way appointed by God to obtain it. " If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him." " If ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto them which are... | |
 | Gerard Thomas Noel - Sermons - 1827 - 604 pages
...instruction. The encouragement is similar to that afforded by St. James, when he says, " If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not." He does not reproach for past ignorance, nor despise the feeble efforts, nor overlook the imperfect... | |
 | 1827 - 590 pages
...glory of his inheritance in ' the saints. And we find the apostle James directing, " If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given them." The nature of this divine teaching and guidance, while it varies... | |
 | Henry March - 1827 - 374 pages
...good and every perfect gift ;" and, humbled in selfabasement, and deeply feeling how greatly he needs wisdom, " let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him." But Jesus " was filled with wisdom." As man, his understanding was... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 546 pages
...our real happiness. And we are introduced to recollect here what St. James says, i. 5, " If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally and uphraideth not. And it shall be given to him." And see ver. 17. 2. Matt. iv. 1, " Then was Jesus led... | |
 | 1827 - 854 pages
...wisdom which is from above; and having the positive assurance from Him who cannot lie, that if any man lack wisdom let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally and upbraided) not, and it shall be given him ; and that he was to ask in faith, nothing wavering ; [ have... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1828 - 522 pages
...upon scriptural grounds, to defend my determination, than of being led to any change of sentiments. However, I set about the inquiry ; and the first passage,...conscious, that though I had thought myself wise, yet assuredly I had obtained none of my wisdom in this manner ; for I had never offered one prayer to that... | |
 | John Mitchel (Presbyterian minister.) - 1828 - 282 pages
...endanger his salvation. For so long as we are distinctly instructed in the divine word, — " If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him. ':" so long as we have the express promise of our blessed Saviour,... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...the Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. — 1 Cor. ii. 19. 22. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given to him. — James i.5. 17. Who is a wise man, and endowed with knowledge... | |
 | Henry Revell REVELL - Sermons, English - 1828 - 386 pages
...meek, lowly, and condescending, who will by his spirit teach and guide us into all truth. "If any man lack wisdom let him ask of God who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him "." If we apply to the creature we shall receive error instead of truth,... | |
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If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him. 
