 | Thomas Scott - Religion - 1805 - 566 pages
...the scriptures, with earnest prayer for divine instruction, according to the apostle's exhortation, " If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, " who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth " not." — But let it be also remembered, that multitudes study religion as a science,... | |
 | Thomas Tomkins - English literature - 1806 - 338 pages
...prayer ;" and to animate us to this duty, there arc many gracious promises ; such as " 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." Here likewise we meet with examples to quicken us.... | |
 | Christian life - 1806 - 416 pages
...find me. Ask, and ye shall receive ; seek, and ye shall find ; knock, and it shall be opened to you. If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth liberally." Can you wish for greater encouragement to early piety ? or for stronger proof that the... | |
 | John Nelson - 1807 - 152 pages
...•! O.ie One time, as I was reasoning about what I had read, I opened the Bible on these words, " If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth liberally, and upbraideth not." I then prayed, " O Lord, what I knownot do thou teach me." And I thought... | |
 | Thomas Belsham - Bible - 1808 - 656 pages
...have its perfect work : that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 5 Now if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not ; and 6 it shall be given him. But let him ask in f faith, nothing doubting. For... | |
 | William Savery - Sermons, American - 1808 - 128 pages
...of God's people ; so that God would condescend to be \vith them, and enlighten their minds. For *' if. any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth liberally, and upbraideth none." O may the God of all mercy, wisdom, and power, hasten this day ; enlarge... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1809 - 512 pages
...meeting. Then we prayed, and I read the first chapter of St. James, and spoke a little on those words, If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not. And two more of our brethren testified, by their own experience, that he is a God... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1821 - 596 pages
...man, in every place, without any exception, either of place or person. Thus St. James, ' 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.' Thus St. Peter, ' The Lord is not willing that any... | |
 | Bible - 1809 - 658 pages
...have its perfect work : that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 5 Now if uny of you want wisdom, let him ask of God, •who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not ; and 6 it shall be given him. But let him ask in t faith, nothing doubting. For... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1811 - 824 pages
...knoweth " nothing yet, as he ought to know."3 " Christ " Jesus, — of God is made unto ' us wisdom." " If " any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who " giveth to all men liberally."4 ' Do not err, my be' loved brethren, every good gift and every perfect ' gift is from... | |
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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. 
