days according to their own pleasure instructed us. but he, for our profit, that we might receive his sanctification.

22 But you are come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to the company of many thousands of angels,

11 Now all chastisement for the present indeed seemeth not to bring 23 And to the church of the firstwith it joy but sorrow: but after-born, who are written in the heawards it will yield, to them that are vens, and to God the judge of all, exercised by it, the most peaceable and to the spirits of the just made fruit of justice. perfect,

12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,

13 And make straight steps with your feet: that no one, halting, may go out of the way; but rather be healed.

14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness: without which no man shall see God:

24 And to JESUS the mediator of the new testament, and to the sprinkling of blood which speaketh better than that of Abel.

25 See that you refuse him not that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke upon earth, much more shall not we, that turn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven.

15 Looking diligently lest any man be wanting to the grace of 26 Whose voice then moved the God: lest any root of bitterness earth: but now he promiseth, sayspringing up do hinder, and by it ing: Yet once more; and I will many be defiled. move not only the earth, but heaven also.

18 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person as Esau: who for one mess sold his first birth-right.

17 For know ye that afterwards when he desired to inherit the benediction, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, although with tears he had sought it.

18 For you are not come to a mountain that might be touched, and a burning fire, and a whirlwind, and darkness, and storm,

19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words, which they that heard excused themselves, that the word might not be spoken

to them:

20 For they did not endure that which was said: And if so much as a beast shall touch the mount, it shall be stoned.

21 And so terrible was that which was seen, Moses said: I am frighted and tremble.

27 And in that he saith, Yet once more, he signifieth the translation of the moveable things as made, that those things may remain which are immoveable.

28 Therefore receiving an immoveable kingdom, we have grace: whereby let us serve pleasing God, with fear and reverence.

29 For our God is a consuming fire.

CHAP. XIII.

Divers admonitions, &c. ET the charity of the brotherhood abide in you.

2 And hospitality do not forget, for by this some, being not aware of it, have entertained angels.

3 Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them: and them that labour, as being yourselves also in the body.

Ver. 17. He found, &c. That is, he found no way to bring his father to repent, or change his mind, with relation to his having given the benediction to his younger brother, Jacob

4 Marriage honourable in all, the sacrifice of praise always to and the bed undefiled. For forni- God, that is to say, the fruit of lips cators and adulterers God will confessing to his name.

judge.

5 Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have; For he hath said: I will not leave thee, neither will I forsake thee.

6 So that we may confidently say: The Lord is my helper: I will not fear what man shall do to me.

16 And do not forget to do good and to impart; for by such sacrifices God's favour is obtained.

For this

17 Obey your prelates, and be subject to them. For they watch as being to render an account of your souls: that they may do this with joy, and not with_grief. is not expedient for you. 18 Pray for us. For we trust we have a good conscience, being you: whose faith follow, consider-willing to behave ourselves well in ing the end of their conversation. all things. 8 JESUS Christ yesterday and today and the same for ever.

7 Remember your prelates who have spoken the word of God to

19 And I beseech you the more to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.

9 Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best 20 And may the God of peace, that the heart be established with who brought again from the dead grace not with meats: which have the great pastor of the sheep, our not profited those that walk in them. Lord JESUS Christ, in the blood of 10 We have an altar, whereof the everlasting testament, they have no power to eat who serve the tabernacle.

21 Fit you in all goodness, that you may do his will: doing in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through JESUS Christ: to whom is glory for ever and ever.

11 For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the Holies by the high-priest for sin, are burned without the camp. Amen. 12 Wherefore JESUS also, that he might sanctify the people by his own blood, suffered without the gate.

13 Let us go forth therefore to him without the camp; bearing his reproach.

14 For we have not here a lasting city but we seek one that is

to come.

15 By him therefore let us offer

22 And I beseech you, brethren, that you suffer this word of consolation. For I have written to you

in a few words.

23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty: with whom (if he comes shortly) I will see you.

24 Salute all your prelates, and all the saints. The brethren from Italy salute you.

25 Grace be with you all. Amen.

Ver. 4. Or let marriage be honourable in all. It is a warning to married people, not to abuse the sanctity of their state, by any liberties, or irregularities contrary thereunto. Ver. 13. His reproach. His cross.

The Catholic EPISTLE of St. JAMES the Apostle.

CHAP. I.

The benefit of tribulations. AMES the servant of God, and Jour Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad greeting.

My brethren, count it all joy when you shall fall into divers temptations:

3 Knowing that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

4 And patience hath a perfect

work: that you may be perfect and down from the Father of lights, entire, failing in nothing. with whom there is no change, nor

5 But if any of you want wis-shadow of alteration. dom, let him ask of God who giv- 18 For of his own will hath he eth to all men abundantly, and up-begotten us by the word of truth, braideth not: and it shall be given that we might be some beginning him. of his creature.

6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth, is like a wave of the sea, which is moved and carried about by the wind.

7 Therefore let not that think that he shall receive thing of the Lord.

8 A double minded man is constant in all his ways.

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9 But let the brother of low condition glory in his exaltation:

10 And the rich, in his being low, because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away.

19 You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak, and slow to anger.

20 For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.

21 Wherefore casting away all uncleanness, and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

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

23 For if a man be a hearer of 11 For the sun rose with a burn-the word and not a doer: he shall ing heat, and parched the grass, be compared to a man beholding and the flower thereof fell off, and his own countenance in a glass. the beauty of the shape thereof perished so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he hath been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which God hath promised to them that love him.

13 Let no man, when he is tempted, say that he is tempted by God. For God is not a tempter of evils, and he tempteth no man.

14 But every man is tempted by hisown concupiscence,being drawn away and allured.

24 For he beheld himself, and went his way, and presently forgot what manner of man he was.

25 But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty, and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work; this man shall be blessed in his deed.

26 And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

27 Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this, 15 Then when concupiscence to visit the fatherless and widows hath conceived, it bringeth_forth in their tribulation: and to keep sin. But sin, when it is completed, one's self unspotted from thisworld. begetteth death.

16 Do not err therefore, my dearest brethren.

CHAP. II.
Against respect of persons.
MY brethren, have not the faith

17 Every best gift, and every of our Lord JESUS Christ of perfect gift, is from above, coming glory with respect of persons.

Ver. 18. Some beginning. That is, a kind of first-fruits of his creatures. Ver. 1. With respect of persons. The meaning is, that in matters relating to faith, the administering of the sacraments, and other spiritual functions in God's church, there should be no respect of persona: but that the souls of the poor should be as much regarded as these

of the rich.

2 For if there shall come into | And mercy exalteth itself above your assembly a man having a judgment. golden ring, in fine apparel, and there shall come in also a poor man in mean attire,

3 And you have respect to him that is clothed with the fine apparel, and shall say to him: Sit thou here well: but say, to the poor man : Stand thou there, or sit under my footstool:

4 Do you not judge within yourselves, and are become judges of unjust thoughts?

14 What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him?

15 And if a brother or sister be naked, and want daily food:

16 And one of you say to them : Go in peace, be you warmed and filled yet give them not those things that are necessary for the body: what shall it profit?

17 So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

5 Hearken, my dearest brethren: hath not God chosen the poor in 18 But some man will say: Thou this world, rich in faith, and heirs hast faith, and I have works: shew of the kingdom which God hath me thy faith without works; and promised to them that love him? I will shew thee, by works, my 6 But you have dishonoured the faith. poor man. Do not the rich oppress 19 Thou believest that there is you by might; and do not they one God. Thou dost well: the dedraw you before the judgment vils also believe and tremble.

seats?

7 Do not they blaspheme the good name that is invoked upon you?

8 If then you fulfil the royal law, according to the scriptures, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: you do well:

20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, offering up Isaac his son upon the altar?

22 Seest thou that faith did cooperate with his works

and by 9 But if you have respect to per-works faith was made perfect? sons, you commit sin, being repro- 23 And the scripture was fulved by the law as transgressors. filled, saying: Abraham believed 10 And whosoever shall keep the God, and it was reputed to him to whole law, but offend in one point, justice, and he was called the friend is become guilty of all. of God.

11 For he that said, Thou shalt | 24 Do you see that by works a not commit adultery, said also, man is justified; and not by faith Thou shalt not kill. Now if thou only?

do not commit adultery, but shalt 25 And in like manner also Rakill: thou art become a transgres-hab the harlot, was not she justified sor of the law. by works, receiving the messengers, and sending them out another way?

12 So speak ye, and so do, as being to be judged by the law of liberty.

26 For even as the body without 13 For judgment without mercy the spirit is dead so also faith to him that hath not done mercy. without works is dead.

Ver. 10. Guilty of all. That is, he becomes a trangressor of the law, in such a manner, that the observing of all other points will not avail him to salvation: for he despises the lawgiver; and breaks through the great and general commandment of charity, which is the fulfilling of the whole law.

13 Who is a wise man and endu