Lev.19.15. Lord of glory, with b persons. Deut. 1. 17. & 16. 19. Prov. 24.23. & 28. 21. Matt. 22.16. 3 Gr. 4 Or, well, or, seemly. respect of 2 For if there come unto your 3 assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; 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: 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 4 Are ye not then partial in your-faith made perfect? copies read, by thy works. ■ ch. 3. 13. Matt.8.29. Mark 1. 24. & 5.7. Luke 4.34. & 19. 15. Acts 16. 17. 1 Kings 8. 2 Chr. 6. 36. Prov. 20.9. Eccles.7.20. 1 John 1. 8. d Ps. 34. 13. ch. 1. 26. 1 Pet. 3. 10. f Ps. 32. 9. g Prov. 12. 18. & 15. 2. h Ps. 12. 3. & 73, 8, 9. 4 Or, wood. i Prov. 16. 27. CHAPTER III. 1 We are not rashly or arrogantly to reprove little member, but a powerful instrument of much good, and great harm. 13 They who b a MY Y brethren, be not many nation. 2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. 3 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. 4 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and 2 Against covetousness, &c. the same place sweet water and 12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, D ANNO DOMINI cir. 60. 2 Or, hole. a Gal. 6. 4. 13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works P with meek- och. 2. 18. ness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have a bitter envying 15 This wisdom descendeth not where envying and strife 5 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18 y And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. Χ CHAPTER IV. 1 We are to strive against covetousness, 4 in- p ch. 1. 21. 6 Or, brawlings. 7 Or, pleasures! ROM whence come wars and So ver. 3. thriven of fierce winds, yet are they Ffightings among you? come 7 For every • kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: 8 But the tongue can no man 9 Therewith bless we God, even 10 Out of the same mouth pro- 11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of Matt. 7.1. his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. Luke 6. 37. Rom. 2. 1. 1 Cor. 4. 5. Matt.10.28. t Rom. 14. 4, 13. ☐ Prov. 27.1. Luke 12. 18, &c. is. 8 t 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? 13 "Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what 2 Or, For it is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. * Job 7. 7. 15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do 1 Cor. 4. 19. this, or that. & 16. 7. Heb. 6. 3. 16 But now ye rejoice in your 1 Cor. 5. 6. boastings: all such rejoicing is a Luke 12. 47. John 9. 41. & 15. 22. evil. 17 Therefore to him that knowRom. 1. 20, eth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. 21, 32. & 2. 17, 18, 23. Exhortation to patience. ANNO DOMINI cir. 60. Or, Belong Suffer 7 2 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 also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord Jer. 5. 24. draweth nigh. 8 ye 9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door. m 10 Take, my brethren, the pro- 11 Behold, " we count them happy 12 But above all things, my bre- patient, or, 14. Hos. 6. 3. Heb. 10. 25, 37. let Eph. 5. 19. 13 Is any among you afflicted ? 14 Is any sick among you? let 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; "and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. 17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. 4 Behold, the hire of the labour- months. 5 Ye have lived in pleasure on 6 & Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you. 19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; 20 Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way d shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. COL. 8. 16. & 2. d2 Thess. 2. 13. CHAPTER I. 1 He blesseth God for his manifold spiritual graces: 10 shewing that the salvation in Christ is no news, but a thing prophesied of old: 13 and exhorteth them accordingly to a godly conversation, forasmuch as they are now born anew by the word of God. DETER, an apostle of Jesus PET Christ, to the strangers & scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, d 2 Elect according to the foreRom. 8.29. knowledge of God the Father, a through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and e * sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ : "Grace unto you, and peace, multiplied. • Heb.10.22. & 12. 24. ? Rom. 1.7. 2 Pet. 1. 2. Jude 2. 8 2 Cor. 1.3. Eph. 1. 3. h Tit. 3. 5. 2 Gr. much. Jam. 1.15 1 Cor. 15. 20. 1 Thess. 4. 14. ch. 8. 21. 1 ch. 5. 4. m Col. 1. 5. 2 Tim. 4. 8. 3 Or, for us. n John 10. be 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which "according to his 2 abundant mercy 1hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, k 4 To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven 3 for you, 5 Who are kept by the power 28, 29, & 17. of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last 11, 15. Jude 1. • Matt. 5.12. Rom. 12.12. time. 2 Cor. 6. 10. ch. 4. 13. P2 Cor.4.17. ch. 5. 10. q Jam. 1. 2. 12. Jam. 1. 3, ch. 4. 12. Job 23. 10. Prov. 17.3. Pa. 66. 10. IB. 48. 10. Zech. 13.9. 1 Cor. 3. 13. t Rom. 2. 7, 10. 2 Thess. 1. 7-12. 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now P for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: q 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, 'might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: u 1 Cor. 4. 5. 8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice x John 20. with joy unspeakable and full of 2 Cor. 5.7. glory: a 1 John 4. 20. 29. Heb. 11. 1, 27. 9 Receiving the end of your Rom.6.22. faith, even the salvation of your Gen. 49.10. Souls. Dan. 2. 44. Hag. 2.7. Zech. 6. 12. 10 Of which salvation the proMatt. 13. 17. phets have enquired and searched Luke 10.24. diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: 2 Pet. 1. 19, 20, 21. 11 Searching what, or what manwhich was in them did signify, when ner of time the Spirit of Christ it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. 12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto which are now reported unto you by us they did minister the things, them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent the angels desire to look into. down from heaven; which things 2 13 Wherefore gird up the loins of be sober, and hope your mind, to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; 14 As obedient children, k not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts 'in your ignorance: 15 m But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; 16 Because it is written, " Be ye holy; for I am holy. 17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, P pass the time of your journing here in fear : so 18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation "received by tradition from your fathers; 19 But with the precious blood of ch. 2. 11. "as of a lamb without bleChrist, mish and without spot: 20 Who verily was foreordained but was manifest in these last times before the foundation of the world, for you, a 21 Who by him do believe in God, z that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. 22 Seeing ye b have purified your the Spirit unto unfeigned love of souls in obeying the truth through Heb. 12. 28. q 2 Cor. 5. 6. Heb. 11. 13. r1 Cor. 6.20. & 7.23. ■ Ezek. 20. 18. ch.4.8. Eph. 1. 7. t Acts 20.28. Heb. 9. 12, 14. Rev. 5. 9. u Ex. 12. 5. 18. 53. 7. 36. John 1. 29, Rom.3.25. 1 Cor. 5. 7. & 16. 25, 23. Eph. 3. 9,11. Col. 1. 28. 2 Tim. 1. 9, Tit. 1. 2,3. Rev. 13.8. 10. y Gal. 4. 4. Eph. 1. 10. Heb. 1. 2. & 9. 26. Acta 2. 24. a Matt. 28. 18. Acts 2. 83. & 3. 13. Eph. 1. 20. Phil. 2. 9. Heb. 2. 9. ch. 8. 22. b Acts 15. 9. Rom. 12. 9, 10. 1 Thess. 4. 9. 1 Tim. 1. 5. Heb. 13. 1. ch. 2. 17. & 3. 8. & 4. 8. 2 Pet. 1. 7. 1 John 3. 18. & 4. 7, 21. a Eph. 4. 22, 25, 31. Col. 3. 8. Heb. 12. 1. Jam. 1. 21. & 5. 9. ch. 4. 2. b Matt. 18.3. 25 & But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you. CHAPTER II. 1 He dehorteth them from the breach of charity: 4 shewing that Christ is the foundation whereupon they are built. 11 He beseecheth them also to abstain from fleshly lusts, 13 to be obedient to magistrates, 18 and teacheth servants how to obey their masters, 20 patiently suffering for well doing, after the example of Christ. HEREFORE a laying aside The duties of subjects, น as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; b с 12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, 2 whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. 13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; 14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the Matt. 5.16. punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. 15 For so is the will of God, Tit. 3.1. that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: 16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, 17 14 Honour all men. m Love the brotherhood. "Fear God. Honour the king. WHEREFORE for a of hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil Mark 10. 15. speakings, Rom. 6. 4. 1 Cor. 14.20. ch. 1. 23. c 1 Cor. 3. 2. Heb.5.12,13. d Ps. 34. 8. Heb. 6. 5. Ps. 118. 22. Matt. 21. 42. Acts 4. 11. f Eph. 2. 21, 22. 3 Or, be ye built. g Heb. 3. 6. h Is. 61. 6. & 66. 21. ver. 9. Hos. 14.2. Rom. 12.1. Mal. 1. 11. Heb. 13. 15, 16. k Phil. 4.18. ch. 4. 11. 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: 3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. 4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, 5 Ye also, as lively stones, 3 are built up a spiritual house, han holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by k Jesus Christ. 6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, 'Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious and he that believeth on him Matt. 21. 42. shall not be confounded. 1 Is. 28. 16. Rom. 9. 33. 4 Or, an honour. m Ps. 118.22. Acts 4. 11. n Is. 8. 14. 9. Rom. 3:34. 01 Cor.1.23. p Ex. 9. 16. Rom. 9. 22. 1 Thess. 5.9. Jude 4. q Deut. 10. 15. ch. 1. 2. r Ex. 19.5,6. Rev. 1. 6. & 5. 10. John 17.19. 1 Cor. 3. 17. 2 Tim. 1. 9. t Deut. 4.20. & 7.6. & 14. 2. & 26. 18, 19. Acts 20. 28. Eph. 1. 14. Tit. 2. 14. 6 Or, a purchased people. Or,virtues. " Acts 26.18. 4 7 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, 8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: P whereunto also they were appointed. ye 9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, "an holy nation, t 5 a peculiar people; that should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of "darkness into his marvellous light: 10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, Hos. 1.9, but now have obtained mercy. Eph. 5. 8. Col. 1. 13. 1 Thess. 5. 4, 5. 10. & 2. 23. Rom. 9. 25. 11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you |