For confider him that endured fuch conction of finners against himself, left ye be zie 1 and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet refiited unto blood, ing againft fin. And ye have forgotten the exhortation ch fpeaketh unto you as unto children, fon, defpife not thou the chaftening of Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked im : For whom the Lord loveth he chafteneth, fcourgeth every fon whom he receiveth. It ye endure chaftening, God dealeth a you as with fons; for what fon is he m the father chatteneth not? But if ye be without chattisement, whereall are partakers, then are ye battards, not fons. Furthermore, we have had fathers of feth, which corrected us, and we gave reverence: fhall we not much rather n fubjection unto the Father of fpirits, ! live? For they verily for a few days chaftenus after their own pleasure; but he for profit, that we might be partakers of holiness. 1 Now no chaftening for the prefent meth to be joyous, but grievous: neverlefs, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable it of righteoufnefs unto them which are ercifed thereby. 12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang wn, and the feeble knees; 13 And make straight paths for your feet, 14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, 16 Leit there be any fornicator, or profane and exhortations. 25 See that ye refufe not him that speaketh. For it they escaped not who refused him that fpake on earth, much more ball not we efcape, if we turn away from him that speak. eth irom heaven. 26 Whofe voice then thook the earth: But now he hath promifed, faying, Yet once more I thake not the earth only, but alio hea ven. 27 And this word, Yet once more, fig. nifieth the removing of those things that are thaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken, may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may ferve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 20 For our God is a confuming fire. I Divers admonitions, as to charity, 4 2 Be not forgetful to entertain ftran. 5 Let your converfation be without covetoufnefs; and be content with fuch things as ye have: for he hath faid, I will never leave thee, nor forfake thee. 6 So that we may boldly fay, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man fhall do unto me. 7 Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whofe faith follow, confider the end of their conversation: rfon, as Efau, who for one morfel of meat ing Jefus Chrift the fame yesterday, and to. ld his birthright. 17 Fo: ye know how that afterward, when e would have inherited the bleifing, he was ejected; for he found no place of repentance, hough he fought it carefully with tears. 18 For ye are not come unto the mount hat might be touched, and that burned with ire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and empest, 19 And the found of a trumpet, and the roice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: 20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, and if fo much as a reaft touch the mountain, it shall be ftoned, or thrust through with a dart: 21 And fo terrible was the fight, that Mofes faid, I exceedingly fear and quake:) 22 But ye are come unto Mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerufalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23 To the general affembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Jutge of all, and to the fpirits of juft men made perfect, 24 And to Jefus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of fprinkling, that peaketh better things than that of Abel. day, and for ever. 9 Be not carried about with divers and ftrange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. 10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which ferve the tabernacle. 11 For the bodies of thofe beats, whofe bloodis brought into the fanctuary by the high prieft for fin, are burned without the camp. 12 Wherefore Jefus alfo, that he might fanctify the people with his own blood, fufe fered without the gate. 13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. 14 For here have we no continuing city, but we feek one to come. 15 By him therefore let us offer the facrifice of praife to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. 16 But to do good and to communicate for get not: for with fuch facrifices God is well pleased. 17 Obey them that have the rule over you and fubmit yourselves: for they watch for your fouis, as they that murt give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you. K& 18 Pray God giveth wifdom. JAMES. 18 Pray for us: for we truft we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live nonenly. 19 But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be reftored to you the fooner. 20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jefus, that great Shepherd of the fheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, 21 Make you per:ect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleafing in his fight,through JesusChrist; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. Diers of the 21 And I beseech you, brethres, Mér word of exhortation: for I have t letter unto you in few words. 23 Know ye that our brother Time fet at liberty; with whom, if he cours ly, I will fee you. 24 Salute all them that have the m you, and all the faints. They of you. 25 Grace be with you all. Ant. The general Epiftle of JAMES. СНАР. 1. 1 We must rejoice under the crops, 5 a wif- 2 My brethren, count it alljoy when ye fall into divers temptations; 3 Kowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience: 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. sit any of you lack witdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. 6 But let him afk in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the fea driven with the wind and toffed. 7 For let not that man think that he fhall receive any thing of the Lord. 8 A double minded nan is unstable in all Misways. 9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: 10 But the rich, in that he is made low because as the flower of the grafs he thall pass away. 1 For the fun is no fooner rife with a 25 But whofo looketh into the perfe of liberty, and contirueth bereik, he tes not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of work, this man fhall be blefied in his des 26 It any man among you feem to be gious, and bridleth not his tongue, but a ceiveth his own heart, this man's religi vain. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before Gui and the Father is this, To vifit the fatherin and widows in their affliction, and to kep himself unfp. tted from the world. CHAP. II. We must not regard the rich, and despür the poor. 14 Faith without works, 17 burning heat, but it withereth the grafs, and MY brethren, have not the faith o aut the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the tathion of it perifherh: fo alfo fhall the rich man fade away in his ways. 12 Bieffed is the man that endureth temp. tation: for when he is tried, he thall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath pro mifed to thein that love him. 13 Let no man fay when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man : is 14 But every man is tempted, when he drawn away of his own luft, and enticed. 15 Then when luft hath conceived, it bringeth forth fin: and fin, when it is finithed, bringeth forth death. 16 Do not err, my beloved brethren. 17 Every good gift, and every pereat gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variable. nefs, neither thadow of turning. 18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we thould be a kind of firft fruits of his creatures. 19 Wherefore my beloved brethren, let every man be fwift to hear, flow to speak, How to wrath. Lord Jefus Chrift, the Lord of glery, with refpest of perfons. 2 For if there conie unto your affembly 1 man with a gold ring in goodly apparel, and there come in alfo a poor man in vierament; the gay clothing, and fay unto him, if ther 3 And ye have relped to him that wearth here in a good place; and Jay to the poor, Stand thou there, or there under my ftool: 4 Are ye not then partial in yourients, and are become judges of evil thoughts! 5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath at God chofen the poor of this world, rich is faith, and heirs of the kingdom which hath promifed to them that love him? 6 But ye have defpifed the poor. Do not rich men opprefs you, and draw you before the judgment feats? 7 Do not they blafpheme that wordy name by the which ye are called? 8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the fcripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour a thyself, ye do well: 9 But if ye have refpect to perfons, p commit fin, and are convinced of the law as tranfgreffors. 10 For whofoever shall keep the whole law, ad yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. 11 For he that faid, Do no! commit adulery, faid alfo, Do not kill. Now if thou ommit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou frt become a tranfgreffor of the law. 12 So speak ye, and fo do, as they that hall be judged by the law of liberty. 13 For he thall have judgment without mercy, that hath thewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment. 14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man fay he hath faith, and have not works? Can faith fave him? 15 I: a brother or fifter be naked, and deftitute or daily food, 16 And one of you fay unto them, Depart in peace, be you warmed and filled; notwithanding ye give them not thote things which are neeatul to the body; what doth it profit? 17 Even fo faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. 18 Yea, a man may fay, Thou haft faith, and I have works: thew me thy faith with out thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. ry Thou believeft that there is one God; thou doeft well: the devils alfo believe, and tremble. 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? 21 Was not Abraham our father juftified by works, when he had offered Ifaac his fon upon the altar? 22 Seeft thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? 23 And the fcripture was fulfilled which faith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteoufnefs: and he was called the friend of God, 24 Ye fee then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. 25 Likewife alfo was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when the had received the meffengers, and had fent them out ano ther way? 26 For as the body without the fpirit is dead, fo faith without works is dead alfo. CHAP. III. We are not rafbly or arrogantly to reprove others, 5 but rather to bridle the tongue, 13 They that be truly wife are mild and peaceable, without envying and ftrife. M knowing that we shall receive the greater Y brethren, be not many mafters, condemnation. 2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the fame is a perfect man, and able alfo to bridle the whole body. 3 Behold we put bits in the horfes mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. 4 Behold also the hips, which though they befo great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very fmali helm, whitherioever the governor litteth. 5 Even fo the tongue is a little member, and boatteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: fo is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and fetteth on fire the courfe of nature; and it is fet on fire of hell. Of faith and works. 7 For every kind of beats, and of birds, and offerpents, and of things in the fea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: 8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poifon. 9 Therewith blefs we God, even the Facher; and therewith curte we men, which are made after the fimil-tude of God. TO Out of the fame mouth proceedeth bletting and carfing. My brethren, these things ought not fo to be. 11 Doin a fo intain fend forth at the fame place weet water and bitter; 12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, fig-! So can no fountain both yield fait water and trefh. 13 Who is a wife man and ended with knowledge among you? let him fhew out of a good converfation his works with meeknefs of wifdom. 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wifdem descendeth not from above, but is carthly, fenfual, devilith. 16 For where envying and ftrife is, there is contufion and every evil work. 17 But the wndom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good truits, without partiality, and without hypocrify. 18 And the trait of righteoufnels is fown in peace of them that make peace.. СНА Р. IV. 1 Against covetousness, 4 intemperance, s pride, 11 detratii, 13 and rafb judgment. FROM whence come wars and fightings, among you! Come they not hence, even of your lufts that war in your members? 2 Ye luft, and have not: ye kill, and defire to have, and cannot obtain ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye aik not. 3 Ye aik, and receive not, because ye ask amifs, that ye may confume it upon your lufts. 4 Ye adulterers and adultereffes, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whofoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5 Do ye think that the feripture faith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth' in us lufteth to envy? 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he faith, God refifteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Refift the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw migh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanfe your hands, ye finners; and purity your hearts, ye doubleminded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the fight of the Lord, and he thall lift you up. 11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren, He that speaketa evil of his brother, and judg eth his brother, fpeaketh evil or the law, and judgeth the law; but it thou judge the law, thou art not a dcer of the law, but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to fave and to deftroy: who art thou that judg eft another? 13 Go to now, ye that fay, To-day or tomorrow we will go into fuch a city, and KK continue An exportation to bless thren, left ye be condemned: bebit, judge ftandeth before he door, The trial of faith. 1. PETER. continue there a year, and buy and fell, and get gain: 14 Whereas ye know not what fall be on the morrow. For what is your life? it is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then van fheth away. 15 For that ye ought to fay, If the Lord will, we half live, and do this, or that, 16 But now ye rejoice in your boaftings: all fuch rejoicing is evil. 17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is fin. СЧАР. V. Of wicked rich men. 7 Of patience. 12 To forbear swearing. 13 To pray in adversity, Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miferies that thall come Ο upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your gar. ments are motheater. 3 Your gold and filver is cankered; and the ruft of them thall be a witnefs againft gou, and fhall eat your fleth as it were hre. Ye have heaped treafure together for the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by traud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of fabaoth. 5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of flaughter. 6 Ye have condemned and killed the juf; and he doth not refift you. Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. 8 Be ye alfo patient; ftablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. 9 Grudge not one against another, bre 10 Take, my brethren, the prophes have fpoken in the name of the Las an example of fuffering affiction, is patience. 11 Behold, we count them happy win endure. Ye have heard of the paten Job, and have feen the end of the Lent, the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender men 12 But above all things, my bein fwear not, neither by heaven, seither i the earth, neither by any other each: w let your yea he yea; and your e, left ye fall iaro condemnation. 13 Is any among you afflicted? Bet his pray. Is any merry? let him fing palms 14 Is any fick among you! let him a for the elders of the church; and let me pray over him, anointing him with of a the name of the Lord: 15 And the prayer of faith thall ive fr fick, and the Lord thall raife him q if he have committed fins, they hall in giver him. 16 Confefs your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be bes ed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righ teous man availeth much. 17 Elias was a man subject to like patien as we are, and he prayed earactly that t might not rain: and it rained not on it earth by the space of three years and is months. 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth bet fruit. 19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; 20 Let him know, that he which converteth the finner from the error of his way thall fave a foul from death, and thail hide a multitude of fins. The First Epiftle general of P ETER. lie bleeth God for his manifold spititual graces; 10 beweth that falvation in Christ is not new, but a thing prophehed of old; 13 and exhorteth them to a godly converfation, forafmuch as they are now horn anew by the word of God. PETER, an apostle of Jefus Chrift, to ftrangers fcattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Afia, and Bithynia, 2 Élect according to the foreknowledge of God the father, through fanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and fprinkling of the blood of Jefus Chrift: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. 3 Bichica be the God and Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, which according to his abundant merey hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the refurrection of Jefus Chrift from the dead, 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, referved in heaven for you, 5 Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto falvation ready to be revealed in the latt time. 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a feafon, if need be, ye are in heavineís through manifold temptations: 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that periheth though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praife and honour and glory at the appearing of Jefus Chrift 8 Whom having not feen, ye leve; a whom, though now you fee him not, yet lieving, ye rejoice with joy unlpeakable and full of glory: 9 Receiving the end of your faith, mys the falvation of your fouls. 10 Of which falvation the prophets, have enquired and fearched diligently, who prephefied of the grace that should come unto you: 11 Searching what, or what manner of time the spirit of Chrift which was in them did fignify, when it teftified beforehand the fufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. 12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themfelves, but unto us they did minifter the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gofpel unto you with the Holy Ghoft fent down Shrif the corner flone. Chap. ii, ill. 3 Wherefore gird up the loins of your 14 As obedient children, not fashioning 15 Bit as he which hath called you is holy, And if ye call on the Father, who withIt refpect of perfons judgeth according to very man's work, pafs the time of your foreturning bere in tear: 8 Forafmuch as ye know that ye were 2 redeemed with corruptible things, as driver and gold, from your vain converfation eceived by tradition from your tathers; 19 But with the precious blood of Chrift, s of a lamb without blemish and without pot; 20 Who verily was foreordained before the oundation of the world, but was manifeft in chefe last times for you, 21 Who by him do believe in God, that afed him up from the deal, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be ♫ God. 22 Seeing ye have purified your fouls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto de jarenligned love of the brethren, fee that ye love another with a pure heart fervently: 23 Being born again, not of corruptible fee, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. 2.35 TER 24 For all fleth is as graís, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grafs withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: 25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. CHA P. II. He debortetb them from the breach of charity, WHEREFORE laying afide all malice, and all guile, and hypocrifies, and envies, and all evil fpeakings. 2 As newborn babes, defire the finere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby : 3 If fo be ye have tatted that the Lord is gracious. 4 To whom conuing as unto a living flore, difallowed indeed of men, but chofen of God, and precious, 5 Ye alfo, as lively ftones, are built up a Spiritual houfe, an holy priesthood to offer up fpiritual faerifces, acceptable to God by Jefus Chrift. 6 Wherefore alfo it is contained in the fcripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner itune, elect, precious and he that believeth on him thall not be confounded. 7 Unto you therefore which believe be is precious: but unto them which be difobedient, the ftone which the builders difallowed, the fame is made the head of the corner, Duty of wives and husbands. 8 And a ftone of ftumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which tumble at the word, being difobedient: whereunto alfo they were appointed. 9 But ye are a chofen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar pecple; that ye thould fhew forth the prafes of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: ro Which in time paft were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. 11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as ftran. gers and pilgrims, abftain from fethly lufts, which war againft the foul; 12 Having your converfation honeft among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evil doers, they may by your good works, which they thall behold, glority God in the day of vifitation. 13 Submit yourfeives to every ordinance of man for the Lord's fake: whether it be to the king, as fupreme; 14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are fent by him for the punishment of evil doers, and for the praife of them that do well. 15 For fo is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to fileace the igno rance of foolish men: of 16 As free, and not ufing your liberty for a cloak of malicioufnets, but as the fervants God. 17 Honour all men. Love the brother. hood. Fear God. Honour the king. 18 Servants, be subject to your mafters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but alfo to the froward. 19 For this is thankworthy, lf a man for contcience toward God endure grief, fuffer. ing wrongfully. 20 For what glory is it, if, when ye be bureted for your faults, ye shall take it pa tiently? But if, when ye do well, and fuffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is ac ceptable with God. 21 For even hereunto were ye called: be caufe Chrift alfo fattered for us, leaving us an example, that ye fhould follow his steps: 22 Who did no fin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he futtered, he threatened not; out committed bimfelf to him that judgeth rightecully: 24 Who his own felf bare our fins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to fins, should five unto righteouinels; by whofe itripes ye were healed. 25 For ye were as theep going aftray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your fouls. CHAP. 111. 1 He teacheth the duty of wives and bufbands to each other, 8 exhorting all men to unity and love, 14 and to fuffer perfecution; 19 he declareth also the benefits of Chrift toward the whole world. LIKEWISE, ye wives, be in fubjection to your own hulbands; that, it any obey not the word, they ano may without the word be won by the converfation of the wives; 2 While they behold your chafle conver fation coupled with fear, Kk3 a Whole |