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Nor how to pray in a right manner, and for right ends, and a mistake in either frustrates our Prayer,","proofs":["James 4:3"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"92","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/92","segments":[{"text":"They mistake in the manner when they ask Mercies of God for carnal ends, to satisfie their lusts,","proofs":["James 4:3"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"92","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/92","segments":[{"text":"Lord thou hast heard the desire of the humble, thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear▪ (3.) As to our faith in Prayer,","proofs":["James 1:6"]},{"text":"&c. (4.) As to our fervency in Prayer,","proofs":["James 5:16"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"96","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/96","segments":[{"text":"Because partial Obedience, is no Obedience; he that does not obey God in every thing obeys him in nothing.","proofs":["James 2:10"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"99","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/99","segments":[{"text":"(1.) Effectually by our selves, and our own hearts,","proofs":["James 1:14–15"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"100","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/100","segments":[{"text":"That in Prayer we must be fervent in our desires, and longing for what we pray,","proofs":["James 5:16"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"100","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/100","segments":[{"text":"That praying for things agreeable to Gods Will, we ought to be confident that we shall succeed in our requests; praying for the matter, and after the manner of this Prayer,","proofs":["James 1:6"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"1","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/1","segments":[{"text":"Heirs of the Kingdom which he hath promised unto them that love him.","proofs":["James 2:5"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"4","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/4","segments":[{"text":"Every good and perfect gift cometh down from the Father of Lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.","proofs":["James 1:17"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"1. The Apostle Paul doth plainly and positively affirm, and by many Arguments prove Justification by Faith without Works, in his Epistles to the Romans and to the Galatians; and be sure the Apostle James, being inspired by the same spirit, in writing his Epistle, doth not really contradict this Doctrine. 2. The Apostle James doth not in this Chapter treat of the Justification of our Faith in the sight of God, but of the Justification of our Faith in the sight of Men; and thus he doth assert that Justification is by Works. I will shew thee my Faith by my Works.","proofs":["James 2:18"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"50","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/50","segments":[{"text":"Is any merry? let him sing Psalms.","proofs":["James 5:13"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"55","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/55","segments":[{"text":"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.","proofs":["James 1:13"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"3. Meek and patient suffering the Word of Reproof, and ready Obedience unto the Word of Command, which Ministers shall from the Scriptures make known unto them, together with submission unto the Discipline entrusted with them by the Lord, Receive with meekness the engrafted Word, &c.","proofs":["James 1:21"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"65","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/65","segments":[{"text":"4. Niggard pinching, and with-holding from them their convenient Food; or things needful for them when they are sick, as also keeping back from them their due wages, Behold the Hire of the Labourers which have Reaped down your Fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth.","proofs":["James 5:4"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"68","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/68","segments":[{"text":"2. All ought to distribute necessaries of life according to our ability, unto such as are poor and in want, If a Brother or Sister be naked, and destitute of daily Food, and one of you say unto him, depart in peace, be you warmed, be you filled; notwithstanding you give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?","proofs":["James 2:15–16"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"72","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/72","segments":[{"text":"Every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust, and entised: Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin.","proofs":["James 1:14–15"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"74","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/74","segments":[{"text":"If a Brother or Sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say, depart in peace, be ye warmed, and filled, notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the Body, what doth it profit?","proofs":["James 2:15"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"75","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/75","segments":[{"text":"Go to, now ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you: ye have heaped treasure together for the last dayes.","proofs":["James 5:1, 3"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"78","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/78","segments":[{"text":"Speak not evil one of another, Brethren. He that speaketh evil of his Brother, and judgeth his Brother, speaking 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.","proofs":["James 4:11"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"80","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/80","segments":[{"text":"5. By looking to others, better than our selves, who have been lower in the World and more afflicted than we have been; our Saviour had not where to lay his head, and those of whom the World was not worthy, had no certain dwelling place in the World, and many of them destitute afflicted and tormented. 6. By labouring so much the more to abound in spiritual riches, the less we have of Temporal; and if he have no Earthly Inheritance, to secure our right unto, and living by Faith upon our Heavenly Inheritance, hereby the poorest sometime become the richest, and those that have most outward trouble have most inward joy. Hath not God chosen the poor of this World, rich in Faith and Heirs of the Kingdome, which he hath promised to them that love him?","proofs":["James 2:5"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"81","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/81","segments":[{"text":"3. Because this sin of envy is heart-murder, and the spring of much strife and contention, and of much evil and mischief, which we shall be ready to do unto those whom we envy, Where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.","proofs":["James 3:16"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"82","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/82","segments":[{"text":"For in many things we offend all,","proofs":["James 3:2"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"82","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/82","segments":[{"text":"The tongue can no man tame, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poyson,","proofs":["James 3:8"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"87","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/87","segments":[{"text":"Grief for sin is needful in Repentance, because it further works the heart unto a willingness to leave sin; because God doth require it, and hath promised mercy unto such as mourn for sin, Be Afflicted, Mourn, and Weep: Let your Laughter be turned to Mourning, and your joy into Heaviness.","proofs":["James 4:9"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"90","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/90","segments":[{"text":"Wherefore lay apart all superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted Word, which is able to save your souls.","proofs":["James 1:21"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"90","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/90","segments":[{"text":"2. That we practise it in our lives, being ready to obey and do whatever we read or hear out of the Word to be our duty, Be ye doers of the Word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves; 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.","proofs":["James 1:22, 25"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"98","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/98","segments":[{"text":"1. We may not pray for the fulfilling of any sinful desires, Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.","proofs":["James 4:3"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"98","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/98","segments":[{"text":"3. With Faith, Let him ask in Faith.","proofs":["James 1:6"]},{"text":"4. With fervencie, The effectual fervent Prayer of a righteous man availeth much.","proofs":["James 5:16"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"106","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/106","segments":[{"text":"In praying, Deliver us from Evil, we request that when we are tempted by the Devil, or the flesh, or the world unto sin, that we may be supported and strengthened to resist and overcome the temptations, so as to be delivered by the power of Gods sufficient Grace, from falling into the evil of sin. Resist the Devil, and he will fly from you.","proofs":["James 4:7"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"4","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/4","segments":[{"text":"4. Unchangeable.","proofs":["James 1:17"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"82","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/82","segments":[{"text":"4. Every meer man since the fall doth daily break the Commandments of God in word.","proofs":["James 3:8"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"82","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/82","segments":[{"text":"4. Every meer man since the fall, doth break the Commandments of God in deed.","proofs":["James 3:2"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"90","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/90","segments":[{"text":"7. Practise it in our lives.","proofs":["James 1:25"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"2","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/2","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For we must be judged by the Law of Liberty,","proofs":["James 2:12"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"3","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/3","segments":[{"text":"No. For Faith without Works is dead,","proofs":["James 2:26"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"4","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/4","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he is the Father of Lights, with whom is no Variableness, nor Shadow of turning,","proofs":["James 1:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"10","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/10","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Men are made after the Similitude of God,","proofs":["James 3:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"13","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/13","segments":[{"text":"No. For God tempteth no Man,","proofs":["James 1:13"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"14","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/14","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For to him that knows to do good, and doth it not, to him it is Sin,","proofs":["James 4:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"17","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/17","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For how great a Matter doth a little Fire kindle?","proofs":["James 3:5–6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"18","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/18","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For when Lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth Sin,","proofs":["James 1:15"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"19","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/19","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Sin, when it’s finished, brings forth Death,","proofs":["James 1:15"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"32","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/32","segments":[{"text":"Yes. God hath called the Poor of this World Rich in Faith,","proofs":["James 2:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For by Works is Faith made perfect,","proofs":["James 2:22"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"No. For by Works a Man is justified, and not by Faith only,","proofs":["James 2:24"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"33","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/33","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For as the Body without the Spirit is dead, so Faith without Works is dead also,","proofs":["James 2:26"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"38","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/38","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Even the Poor in the World, if Rich in Faith, are Heirs of the Kingdom,","proofs":["James 2:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"42","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/42","segments":[{"text":"Yes. All is comprehended in this saying, Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self,","proofs":["James 2:8"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"42","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/42","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Pray one for another that ye may be healed,","proofs":["James 5:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"55","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/55","segments":[{"text":"Yes. That Man’s Religion is vain,","proofs":["James 1:26"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"55","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/55","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Above all Things, my Brethren, swear not,","proofs":["James 5:12"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"55","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/55","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For it blasphemes that worthy Name by which we are called,","proofs":["James 2:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"63","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/63","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Pure Religion, and undefiled before God, and the Father, is this, to visit the Fatherless and Widows in their Affliction,","proofs":["James 1:27"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"71","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/71","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For when Lust hath conceiv’d it bringeth forth Sin,","proofs":["James 1:15"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"75","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/75","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Hire of the Labourers kept back by Fraud crieth,","proofs":["James 5:4"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"77","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/77","segments":[{"text":"No. For if any Man among you seem to be Religious, and bridleth not his Tongue, that Man’s Religion is vain,","proofs":["James 1:26"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"78","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/78","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He that speaks Evil of his Brother, and judgeth his Brother, speaks Evil of the Law, and judgeth the Law,","proofs":["James 4:11"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"81","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/81","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For where Envy is there is Confusion, and every evil Work,","proofs":["James 3:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"81","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/81","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Lust when it hath conceived bringeth forth Sin,","proofs":["James 1:15"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"82","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/82","segments":[{"text":"Yes. In many Things we all offend,","proofs":["James 3:2"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"88","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/88","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Is any merry, let him sing Psalms,","proofs":["James 5:13"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"90","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/90","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Lay aside all Malice, and Guile, and Hypocrisie, all Filthiness, and Superfluity of Naughtiness,","proofs":["James 1:21"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"90","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/90","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Be swift to hear,","proofs":["James 1:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"90","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/90","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Receive with Meekness the engrafted Word,","proofs":["James 1:21"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"90","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/90","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Be ye Doers of the Word, and not Hearers only,","proofs":["James 1:22"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"98","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/98","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Is any among you afflicted? Let him Pray,","proofs":["James 5:13"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"98","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/98","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Let him ask in Faith, nothing wavering,","proofs":["James 1:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"100","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/100","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Father of Lights,","proofs":["James 1:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"105","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/105","segments":[{"text":"No. Grudge not one against another, Brethren, lest ye be condemned,","proofs":["James 5:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"107","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/107","segments":[{"text":"Yes. 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