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25 is justified, and not by faith only. And in like manner was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she received the messengers, and cast them out another way? 26 For as the body without spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

CH. III.

My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we 2 shall receive greater judgment. For in many ways we all stumble; if one stumbles not in word, he is a 3 perfect man, able to bridle even the whole body. But if we put bits into the horses' mouths, that they may obey 4 us, then we turn about their whole body. See also the ships, though they are so great and driven by fierce winds, they are turned about with a very small helm, whither5 soever the desire of the steersman wishes; so also the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a fire, how great a wood does the tongue 6 kindle! A fire, that world of iniquity! the tongue is set among our members, both defiling the whole body, and setting on fire the wheel of life, and set on 7 fire by hell. For every nature of beasts, and of birds, and of creeping things, and things in the sea, is tamed, 8 and has been tamed by the nature of man, but the tongue can no man tame; a restless evil, full of deadly 9 poison. Therewith we bless the Lord and Father; and therewith we curse the men who have been made after 10 the likeness of God; out of the same mouth come forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought 11 not so to be. Does the fountain send forth out of the 12 same cleft the sweet and the bitter? Can a fig tree, my brethren, bring forth olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water bring forth sweet.

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Who is wise and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of his good conduct his works in meek14 ness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envy and party spirit 15 in your heart, glory not against the truth and lie. This

wisdom is not coming down from above, but earthly, un16 spiritual, demoniacal. For where envy and party spirit 17 are, there are tumult and every bad thing. But the

wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, forbearing, easily persuaded, full of mercy and good fruits, without doubting, without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteous- 18 ness is sown in peace by them that do peace.

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WHENCE Come wars and whence fightings among you? IV. come they not hence, out of your pleasures that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill and envy, 2 and cannot obtain: ye fight and war. And ye have not, because ye ask not; ye ask and receive not, because ye 3 ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures, ye adul- 4 teresses. Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? whosoever therefore wishes to be a friend of the world sets himself as an enemy of God. Do ye think 5 that the scripture speaks in vain? The spirit that he made to dwell in us longs unto envy, but he gives greater 6 grace. Wherefore it is said, God resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble. Subject yourselves therefore to 7 God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you; draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse 8 hands, ye sinners; and make hearts chaste, ye doubleminded. Be afflicted and mourn, weep: let your laughter 9 be turned into mourning, and your joy into heaviness. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. 10 Speak not against one another, brethren. He that 11 speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against law and judges law: but if thou judgest law, thou art not a doer of law but a judge. One is the lawgiver 12 and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbour ?

Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go 13 into such a city, and will spend there a year, and will traffic and get gain, ye that know not what will be on 14 the morrow; for what is your life? For ye are a vapour, that appears for a little, and then disappears instead 15 of your saying, If the Lord will and we live, we shall also do this, or that. But now ye glory in your vain glory: all 16 such glorying is evil. Therefore to him that knows to do 17 good and does it not, to him it is sin.

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CH. V.

Go to now, ye rich, weep, howling for your miseries that 2 are coming upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and 3 your garments are become moth-eaten, your gold and your silver are rusted, and the rust of them will be for a witness against you, and will eat your flesh as fire. Ye 4 treasured up in the last days. Behold, the hire of the labourers who mowed your fields, which has been kept back, cries from you: and the shouts of them that reaped 5 have entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. Ye lived in luxury on the earth, and were wanton; ye nourished 6 your hearts in a day of slaughter. Ye condemned, ye killed the righteous one; he does not resist you.

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Be longsuffering therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being longsuffering over it, 8 till it receive the early and latter rain; be ye also longsuffering, establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord 9 is nigh. Murmur not one against another, brethren, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge stands before the doors. 10 Take, brethren, as an example of affliction and of longsuffering the prophets that spake in the name of the 11 Lord. Behold, we count them blessed that endured; ye heard of the patience of Job, and saw the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.

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But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay, that ye fall not under judgment.

Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any of 14 good cheer? let him sing praise. Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, when they have anointed him with oil in the 15 name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the weary one, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he 16 have done sins, he shall be forgiven. Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be cured; the supplication of a righteous man 17 is of much force when it is working. Elijah was a man

of like passions with us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, it rained not on the earth for three years and six months; and he prayed again, and the heaven gave 18 rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.

My brethren, if any one among you have erred from the 19 truth and one have converted him, let him know that he 20 who converted a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.

OF PETER FIRST.

PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect sojourners CH. I. of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the 2 Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace unto you and peace be multiplied.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus 3 Christ, who according to his abundant mercy begat us again unto a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and 4 undefiled and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who are 5 guarded by God's power through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye exult, 6 though now for a little, if need be, made sorrowful in divers temptations; that the proving of your faith, being 7 much more precious than gold that perishes yet is proved with fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honour at the revelation of Jesus Christ; whom having not 8 seen, ye love, in whom, though now ye see him not, believing, ye exult with joy unspeakable and glorified: receiving the end of your faith, salvation of souls. Con- 9, 10 cerning which salvation prophets inquired and searched

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diligently, they who prophesied of the grace appointed 11 for you; searching as to what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ in them was signifying, when testifying beforehand the sufferings respecting Christ, and the 12 glories after them; unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto you they were ministering the very things which have now been reported unto you by them that preached the gospel unto you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven; into which things angels desire to look. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly for the grace that is being brought unto you 14 at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the lusts which were before 15 in your ignorance, but according to the holy one that 16 called you, be yourselves also holy in all conduct, because 17 it is written, Ye shall be holy, because I am holy. And if ye call on him as a Father, who without respect of persons judges according to every man's work, pass the time of 18 your sojourning in fear; knowing that not with corruptible things, silver or gold, were ye redeemed from your vain 19 conduct received by tradition from your fathers; but with precious blood as of a lamb without blemish and without 20 spot, the blood of Christ, foreknown before the foundation

of the world, but manifested at the last of the times for 21 you, who are through him believers in God that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope are in God.

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Seeing ye have purified your souls in the obedience of the truth unto unfeigned brotherly love, love one an23 other from the heart earnestly; having been born again, not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible, through the 24 word of God, which lives and abides. Because All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of it as a flower of grass; the 25 grass withered, and the flower fell away: but the word of the Lord abides for ever. And this is the word which was preached unto you.

CH. II.

WHEREFORE having put off all viciousness, and all guile, 2 and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as

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