These Jews to whom the Apostle writes, were guilty of many foul, and scandalous sins; but their master sin was the love of this world, c. 4. ver. 4.(a) and from this sin arose many other Evils wherewith they are charged in this Epistle, as 1. Their tickling joy in hopes to get gain, ch. 4.13.(b) 2. Their Hoarding up of riches, ch. 5.3.(c) 3. With-holding the pay of the labouring man, chap. 5.4.(d) 4. Their fightings and Contentions one with the other, yea their killing one the other to get their Estates, ch. 4.1, 2.(e) their desiring to have, made them kill one the other, as Ahab did Naboth. 5. Their Admiring the rich and vilifying the poor, ch. 2.3.(f) and lastly to name no more, Hence arose their unprofitable hearing of the word, ch. 1.22.(g) They heard, they had the best places at meetings, but they were hearers only, they did nothing, for Riches, as Christ tells us, Choke the word, Luke 8.14.(h).
THese Jews to whom the Apostle writes, were guilty of many foul, and scandalous sins; but their master sin was the love of this world, c. 4. ver. 4.(a) and from this sin arose many other Evils wherewith they are charged in this Epistle, as 1. Their tickling joy in hopes to get gain, ch. 4.13.(b) 2. Their Hoarding up of riches, ch. 5.3.(c) 3. With-holding the pay of the labouring man, chap. 5.4.(d) 4. Their fightings and Contentions one with the other, yea their killing one the other to get their Estates, ch. 4.1, 2.(e) their desiring to have, made them kill one the other, as Ahab did Naboth. 5. Their Admiring the rich and villifying the poor, ch. 2.3.(f) and lastly to name no more, Hence arose their unprofitable hearing of the word, ch. 1.22.(g) They heard, they had the best places at meetings, but they were hearers only, they did nothing, for Riches, as Christ tells us, Choak the word, Luke 8.14.(h).
- (a)Ye adulterers, and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
- (b)Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a City, and continue there a year, and buy, and sell, and get gain.
- (c)Your gold and silver is cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire, ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.Your gold and silver is cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire, ye have heaped treasure together for the last daies.
- (d)Behold, the hire of the labourers, which have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth; and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath.Behold, the hire of the labourers, which have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, cryeth; and the cries of them which have reaped are entred into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath.
- (e)From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not even from your lusts that war in your members? ye lust and have not▪ ye kill and desire to have & cannot obtain.
- (f)If there come into your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment. And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing.If there come into your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile rayment. And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing.
- (g)But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
- (h)And that which fell among thorns, are they which when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches.And that which fell among thorns, are they which when they have heard, go forth, and are choaked with cares and riches.
