Surrender therefore to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

on the contrary, he heaps his favours upon you. wherefore 'tis said, "God defeats the proud, but is gracious to the humble."

Degenerate race, don't you know that friendship with vice is hostility against heaven. he that is a friend to the vicious world, is an enemy to God.

you breathe slaughter and revenge for what you cannot obtain.

address your selves to God, and you will find him present with you: cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, you that are diffident.

he then that knows what is virtuous, and does not practise it, is a criminal.

As for you, who affirm, "to-day, or, to-morrow we will go to such a city, we will stay there a whole year, there we will traffic, and find our account."

how do you know, what will happen to-morrow? for, "what is your life?" a vapour that just appears, and then vanishes.

you quarrel and go to war, but without success, because you don't petition for it: and if you did,

you would not obtain it, because you wickedly request to have your passions gratified.

Don't, my brethren, treat one another with detraction. he that reflects upon his brother, and censures his brother, reflects upon the law, and censures the law: if you censure the law, instead of obeying it, you set up for a judge.

humble your selves before the Lord, and he will raise you up.

be afflicted, be mournful, and weep: let your mirth be converted to sadness, and your joy to vexation.

there is but one legislator, and judge, he that has the power of life and death: who art thou, to pass sentence upon another?

your language ought to be this, "if the Lord pleases to give us life, we shall do this, or that."

you triumph in your vain projects, but your presumption is vicious.

or do you imagine that passage of scripture to be insignificant, "does the spirit that dwells in you, incite you to vice?"