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<P><FONT SIZE=+3>James</FONT>
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<BR>Completed by S. W<FONT SIZE=-1>RIGHT</FONT>.</P>
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<P><B>AN</B></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+2>EXPOSITION,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=+1>W I T H P R A C T I C A L O B S E R V A T I O N S,</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=-1>OF THE GENERAL EPISTLE OF</FONT></P>
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T<FONT SIZE=-1>HE</FONT>
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writer of this epistle was not James the son of Zebedee; for he was put
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to death by Herod
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ac+12:1,2">Acts xii.</A>)
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before Christianity had gained so much ground among the Jews of the
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dispersion as is here implied. But it was the other James, the son of
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Alpheus, who was cousin-german to Christ, and one of the twelve
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apostles,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Mt+10:3">Matt. x. 3</A>.
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He is called <I>a pillar</I>
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ga+2:9">Gal. ii. 9</A>),
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and this epistle of his cannot be disputed, without loosening a
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foundation-stone. It is called a general epistle, because (as some
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think) not directed to any particular person or church, but such a one
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as we call a circular letter. Others think it is called general, or
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catholic, to distinguish it from the epistles of Ignatius, Barnabas,
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Polycarp, and others who were noted in the primitive times, but not
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generally received in the church, and on that account not canonical, as
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this is. Eusebius tells us that this epistle was "generally read in the
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churches with the other catholic epistles." His. Eccles. page 53. Ed.
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Val. Anno 1678. James, our author, was called the just, for his great
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piety. He was an eminent example of those graces which he presses upon
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others. He was so exceedingly revered for his justice, temperance, and
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devotion, that Josephus the Jewish historian records it as one of the
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causes of the destruction of Jerusalem, "That St. James was martyred in
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it." This is mentioned in hopes of procuring the greater regard to what
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is penned by so holy and excellent a man. The time when this epistle
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was written is uncertain. The design of it is to reprove Christians for
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their great degeneracy both in faith and manners, and to prevent the
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spreading of those libertine doctrines which threatened the destruction
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of all practical godliness. It was also a special intention of the
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author of this epistle to awaken the Jewish nation to a sense of the
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greatness and nearness of those judgments which were coming upon them;
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and to support all true Christians in the way of their duty, under the
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calamities and persecutions they might meet with. The truths laid down
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are very momentous, and necessary to be maintained; and the rules for
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practice, as here stated, are such as ought to be observed in our times
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as well as in preceding ages.</P>
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