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James 1

2 He exhorteth to rejoice in trouble, 6 To be fervent in prayer with steadfast belief, 17 To look for all good things from above. 21 To forsake all vice, and thankfully to receive the word of God, 22 Not only hearing it, and speaking of it, but to do thereafter in deed. 27 What true religion is.
1.James a servant of God, & of the Lord JESUS CHRIST, to the twelve Tribes, which are scattered abroad, salutation.
2.My brethren, count it exceeding joy, when ye fall into divers ^tentations,
3.*Knowing that the atrying of your faith bringeth forth patience.
4.And let patience have her bperfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking nothing.
5.If any of you lack cwisdom, let him ask of God, which giveth to all men liberally, and reproacheth no man, and it shalbe given him.
6.*But let him ask in faith, and waver not: for he that wavereth, is like a wave of the sea, tossed of the wind, and carried away.
7.Neither let that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
8.A d^wavering minded man is unstable in all his ways.
9.Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is eexalted:
10.Again he that is rich, in that he is made flow: for as the flower of the grass, shall he *vanish away.
11.For as when the sun riseth with heat, then the grass withereth, and his flower falleth away, and the beauty of the fashion of it perisheth: even so shall the rich man fade away in all his ^ways.
12.*Blessed is the man, that endureth tentation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
13.Let no man say when he is ^gtempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man.
14.But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own concupiscence, and is enticed.
15.Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
16.Err not, my dear brethren.
17.Every good hgiving, and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, ineither shadowing by turning.
18.Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be as the first fruits of his creatures.
19.Wherefore my dear brethren, *let every man be kswift to hear, slow to speak, and lslow to wrath.
20.For the wrath of man doeth not accomplish the mrighteousness of God.
21.Wherefore lay apart all filthiness, and superfluity of maliciousness, and receive with meekness the word that is ngrafted in you, which is able to save your souls.
22.*And be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23.For if any hear the word, and do it not, he is like unto a man, that beholdeth his natural face in a oglass.
24.For when he hath considered himself, he goeth his way, and forgetteth immediately what manner of one he was.
25.But who so looketh in the perfect Law of liberty, and continueth therein, he not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, shalbe blessed pin his deed.
26.If any man among you seemeth religious, and refraineth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
27.Pure religion & undefiled before God, even the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless, and widows in their adversity, and to keep himself unspotted of the world.

Notes

2-^.
Or, afflictions
3-*.
Rom. 5.3
3-a.
Afflictions try our faith and engender patience.
4-b.
Our patience ought to continue to the end till by working it has polished us, and made us perfect in Christ.
5-c.
To endure patiently whatsoever God lays upon him.
6-*.
Mat. 7.7, Mar. 11.24, Luk. 11.9, John 14.13 and 16.23
8-^.
or, double
8-d.
Doubting in doctrine, or of God’s will.
9-e.
That he is called to the company of Christ and his Angels.
10-*.
Isa. 40.6, Eccles. 14.18, 1 Pet. 1.24
10-f.
Or contemptible to the world.
11-^.
Or, in all his thoughts and deeds.
12-*.
Job 5.17
13-^.
Or, moved to evil
13-g.
He means now of the inward tentations as of our disordered appetites, which cause us to sin.
17-h.
Seeing all good things come of God, we ought not to make him the author of evil.
17-i.
He alludes unto the sun which in his course and turning sometime is clear and bright, sometime dark and cloudy: but God’s liberality is ever like itself, bright and continually shining.
19-*.
Prov. 17.27
19-k.
That is, prompt to learn.
19-l.
For we can not hear God except we be peaceable, and modest.
20-m.
But hinders God’s work in us.
21-n.
By hearing the word preached.
22-*.
Mat. 7.21, Rom. 2.13
23-o.
So God’s word is a glass wherein we must behold ourselves, and become like unto him.
25-p.
In so behaving himself.