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Doe not they blaspheme that worthy Name, by the which ye are called?

So speake ye, and so doe, as they that shall bee iudged by the Law of libertie.

Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I haue workes: shew mee thy faith without thy workes, and I will shew thee my faith by my workes.

1611 marginal noteSome copies reade, by thy workes.

Was not Abraham our father iustified by works, when hee had offered Isaac his sonne vpon the altar?

Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?

1611 marginal noteOr, thou seest.

Ye see then, how that by workes a man is iustified, and not by faith only.

Likewise also, was not Rahab the harlot iustified by works, when she had receiued the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

Beholde, the hire of the labourers which haue reaped downe your fieldes, which is of you kept backe by fraud, cryeth: and the cryes of them which haue reaped, are entred into the eares of the Lord of Sabaoth.

But aboue all things, my brethren, sweare not, neither by heauen, neither by the earth, neither by any other othe: but let your yea, be yea, and your nay, nay: lest yee fall into condemnation.

Elias was a man subiect to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not raine: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three yeeres and sixe monethes.

1611 marginal noteOr, in his prayer.