that the bringing your faith to the test, produces constancy.

consider, my dear brethren, has not God chose the poor of this world to be rich by faith, and to inherit the kingdom he has promised to those who love him?

What advantage is it, my brethren, for a man to say he has faith, if he has no beneficence? can such a faith save him?

just so faith, if it be not operative, is intirely lifeless.

it will be said, "you have a speculative faith, but mine is practical. where is your faith, if no effects appear? as for me, my actions will vouch for my faith.

Vain man, must I show you how lifeless a thing faith is, without its effects?

don't you see his actions and his faith conspir'd, and that his faith had its perfect effect in his conduct?

you see then, that a man is accounted just for his actions, and not for his bare faith.

as the body then without the soul is a meer carcase, so faith without its effects is lifeless.

the prayer that proceeds from faith, shall save the sick; the Lord will raise him up, and his sins that may have been the occasion, shall be forgiven.