| My grateful thanks go to Ds H. van Wingerden in the
Netherlands, for his invaluable help in scanning and correcting many of Manton's works. |
| CHAPTER I. 1 | James, a servant of God, and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. |
| CHAPTER I. 2 | My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into divers temptations. |
| CHAPTER I. 3 | Knowing this, that the trial of your faith worketh patience. |
| CHAPTER I. 4 | But let patience have her perfect work, that you may be perfect and entire, wanting in nothing. |
| CHAPTER I. 5 | If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him |
| CHAPTER I. 6 | But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering; for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. |
| CHAPTER I. 7 | For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord. |
| CHAPTER I. 8 | A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. |
| CHAPTER I. 9 | Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted. |
| CHAPTER I.10 | Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted. |
| CHAPTER I.11 | For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth; so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways. |
| CHAPTER I.12 | Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. |
| CHAPTER I.13 | Let no man say, when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. |
| CHAPTER I.14 | But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. |
| CHAPTER I.15 | Then, when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin; and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death |
| CHAPTER I.16 | Do not err, my beloved brethren. |
| CHAPTER I.17 | Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. |
| CHAPTER I.18 | Of his own good-will begat he us, by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures. |
| CHAPTER I.19 | Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. |
| CHAPTER I.20 | For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. |
| CHAPTER I.21 | Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls. |
| CHAPTER I.22 | But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. |
| CHAPTER I.23, 24 | For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like to a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he be-holdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. |
| CHAPTER I.25 | But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. |
| CHAPTER I.26 | But if any man among you seemeth to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own soul, this mans religion is vain. |
| CHAPTER I.27 | Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father, is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. |
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