...no labours of love, nor fruit unto righteousness. * " What doth it profit," says St. James, " that a man say he hath faith, and have not works ? Can faith save him ?" That is, can that faith, which is a mere speculative assent to truth, unaccompanied by practical...

...by James, in his epistle, that I cannot do better than give his ideas in their original language. " What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say...hath faith, and have not works ? can faith save him ? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, depart...

...transgressor of the law. 12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. 1* What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works ? ean faith save him ? 13 For he shall have judgment without merey, that hath shewed no merey ; and...

...by acts*of benevolence and compas aion to the indigent, are vain ttnd delusive. James ii, 14 — 16. What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say...hath faith, and have not works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute pf daily food, and one say to them, Depart in fieace,...

...that shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth over judgment. 14. What doth it profit, my brethren, tho* a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him (without works)? 15. If a brother or a sister be naked and destitute of daily food, 16. And one of...

...that there were some who taught that " faith without works" might suffice. In Jam. Hi. 14. he says, " What doth it profit, my brethren, " though a man say...faith, and *« have not works ; can faith save him?" So, verse 17. " Faith, if it hath not works, is dead ;" and, verse 1 9. " The " devils believe," (that...

...whom he writes. . ** Be ye ** doers of the word, and not hearers only, " deceiving your ownselves." ". What " doth it profit, my brethren, though a man "...faith, and have not -works ? " Can faith save him ? If a brother or " sister be naked, and destitute of food,* and " one of you say unto them, Depart...

...not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." And again, " What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works ? Can faith (a dead, unprolific faith, he means) save him ? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily...

...concession which derogates nothing from the argument: this he shews from the beginning in these words; " What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works?" (ri) He does not say, If any one have faith without works; but, If any one boast of having it. He speaks...

...establish, and he asserts it in the strongest terms a few verses before, by asking : " what doth it profit, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works ; can faith save him?'•''* How then does Mr. Simeon encounter this plain refutation of his opinion ? Let us hear himself: " St....