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EXHORTATION TO FAITH AND

PATIENCE.

HEBREWS XIJ.-1 Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith ; who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of Gòd. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

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JAMES II.-14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith sáve him? 15 If a brother or sister be náked, and destitute of daily food, 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye wàrmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it pròfit? 17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. 18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. 19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe and tremble. 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead! 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? 22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? 23 And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness and he was called the Friend of God. 24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. 25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the méssengers, and had sent them out another way? 26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also,

OF PRUDENCE

IN REPROVING.

JAMES III.-1 My brethren, be not many màsters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. 2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a pèrfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. 3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obèy us; and we turn about their whole body. 4 Behold also the ships, which, though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. 5 Even so the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things. Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hèll. 7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tàmed, and hath been tamed, of mankind: 8 But the tongue can nò man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 9 Therewith bless we Gód, even the Fá ther; and therewith curse we mèn, which are made after the similitude of God. 10 Out of the mouth proceedeth blessings and cùrsings. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. 11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? 12 Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olíve-berries? either a víne, fígs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. 13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew, out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glòry not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confùsion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pùre, then peàceable, gèntle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

AGAINST COVETOUSNESS, ETC.

JAMES IV.-7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, purify your hearts, ye double-minded. 8 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Hùmble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. 11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the làw: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save, and to destroy who art thou that judgest another? 13 Go to now,

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ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and bùy, and sell, and get gain: 14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16 But now ye rejoice in your boàstings all such rejoicing is evil. 17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

OF WICKED RICH MEN, ETC.

JAMES V.-1 Go tò now, ye rich men, wèep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth eaten. 3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure 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 fraud, crìeth; and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sàbaoth. 5 Ye have lived in plèasure on the earth, and been wànton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. 6 Ye have condemned and killed the jùst; and he doth not resist you.

COMFORT UNDER PERSECUTION.

1 PETER IV.-12 Beloved, think it not strange, concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. 14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the Spirit of glòry and of God resteth upon you. On their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glòrified. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer, or as a busy-body in other men's matters. 16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed: but let him glorify Gòd on this behalf. 17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of Gòd and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? 19 Wherefore, let them that suffer according to the will of God, commit the keeping of their souls to him in well-dòing, as unto a faithful Creator,

OF KEEPING GOD'S

COMMANDMENTS.

1 JOHN 11.-7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning: The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning. 8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. 9 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. 10 He that loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and wàlketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes. 12 I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. 13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the

beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father. 14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. 15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passeth away, and the lùst thereof: but he that doeth the will of God, abideth for èver.

THE VISION OF A THRONE.

REVELATION IV.-(oo) 1 After this I looked, and behold, a dòor was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard, was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. 2 And immediately I was in the Spirit and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. 3 And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne in sight like unto an emerald. 4 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold. 5 And out of the throne proceeded lightnings, and vòices. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. 6 And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: And in the midst of the throne, and around about the throne were four beasts full of eyes before and behind, 7 And the first beast was like a lìon, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a màn, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. 8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within and they rest not day and night, saying, Hōly, holy, holy, || Lord God Almighty, which was,

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