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superfluity of naughtiness,19 and receive with fmeekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

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22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

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23 For if any be a 'hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

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f Ps. xxv. 9: The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.

8 EPH. i. 13: In whom also ye trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the Gospel of your salvation.

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hACTS, xiii. 26: Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent. ROм. i. 16: For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 1 COR. xv. 2: By which also saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. EPH. i. 13: In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the Gospel of your salvation in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise. TIT. ii. 11: For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men. 1 PET. i. 9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

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LUKE, vi. 46: And why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? do. xi. 28: But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it. ROM. ii. 13: For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. 1 JOHN, iii. 7: Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. See on MAT. vii. 21, 24.

* See on ROM. xvi. 18.

1 LUKE, vi. 47, &c: Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will show you to whom he is like he is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock, &c. JAMES, ii. 14, &c.

25 But whoso m looketh into the perfect "law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.20

26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and Pbridleth 21 not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

27 Pure religion 22 and undefiled 23 before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless 22 For pure

20 doing. A. V. 21 refrain, Co. Ma. Cr. Bi. Gen. gion, &c. Wh. 23 unspotted. Rh.

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m 2 COR. iii. 18: We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

Ps. cxix. 45: And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts. JAMES, ii. 12, &c.

JOHN, xiii. 17: If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

p Ps. xxxiv. 13 : Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. do. xxxix. I: I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. PRO. x. 11, 13, 20, 21: The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life. In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found. The tongue of the just is as choice silver. The lips of the righteous feed many. do. xv. 7: The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. ECCLUS. xiv. 1: Blessed is the man that hath not slipt with his mouth. do. xix. 16: There is one that slippeth in his speech, but not from his heart; and who is he that hath not offended with his tongue? do. xxv. 8: Well is him that dwelleth with a wife of understanding, and that hath not slipped with his tongue. MAT. xv. 11, 18: Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. Those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. JAMES, iii. 2, 5, &c: If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity, &c. 1 PET. iii. 10: He that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile.

9 EXOD. Xxii. 22, &c: Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child. DEUT. XXIV. 17: Thou shalt not pervert the

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CHAP. II.

1 It is not agreeable to Christian profession to regard_the_rich, and to despise the poor brethren: 13 rather we are to be loving and merciful: 14 and not to boast of faith where no deeds are, 17 which is but a dead faith, 19 the faith of devils, 21 not of Abraham, 25 and Rahab.

MY brethren, have not the faith of our a Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory,2 with b respect of persons.

24 adversity. Gen. hold. Pu. 2the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Ham.

judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge. do. xxvii. 19: Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen. Ps. lxviii. 5: A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. ISA. i. 16, 17: Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. do. lviii. 6, 7: Is not this the fast that I have chosen to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? ZEC. vii. 10: Oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor. MAT. xxv. 36: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

FROM. xii. 2: And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. JAMES, iv. 4: Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. See on JOHN, xvii. 15.

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1 COR. ii. 8: Had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

b Ver. 9. LEV. xix. 15: Thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour. DEUT. i. 16,

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2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment ;5

3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:

4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts ?7

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17: And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him. Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's. do. xvi. 19: Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous. PRO. xxiv. 23: It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment. do. xxviii. 21: To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress. EccLUS. xlii. 1: Accept no person to sin thereby. MAT. xxii. 16: Thou regardest not the person of men. JOHN, viii. 15: Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. JUDE, 16: Having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

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d See on LUKE, xii. 21.

LUKE, vi. 20: And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for your's is the kingdom of God. do. xii. 32: Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. do. xxii. 29: And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me. 1 COR. ii. 9: But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man,

6 But ye have 'despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

7 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?

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9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

10 For whosoever shall keep 1o the whole law, and yet offend " in one point, he is guilty of all 12

11 For he that said,13 Do tery, said also, Do not kill.

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9 convicted. We. Pu. 10 fulfil. Wh. 11 fail. Co. Ma. Cr. Bi. Gen. 12 in all. Co. Ma. 13 that law which said. A. V. 14 Thou shalt not. Co. Ma. Cr. Gen. Rh. Pu.

the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 2 TIM. iv. 8: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. See on JAMES, i. 12.

f1 COR. xi. 22: What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the Church of God, and shame them that have not?

* ACTs, xiii. 50: But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts. do. xvii. 6: And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also. do. xviii. 12: And when Gallio was the deputy of Achaia, the Jews made insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the judgment seat. JAMES, v. 6: Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

See on JOHN, xiii. 34.
See on ver. 1.

See on GAL. iii. 10.

I See on MAT. v. 27.