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ditch, or guides him in the way. This instance and sense of the rule we learn from St. James: "If a brother or a sister be naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, be ye warmed and filled, notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body, what doth it profit?" That is, it is in vain to pretend internal charity without the external: in many cases, it cannot be without it; and when it can, it is because there is no object for the act, or no possibility to do it, and then the internal is to be done, not by way of preference to the external, but in destitution of it and supply. But this will be yet further explicated in the following rule.

k James, ii. 15.

END OF THE TWELFTH VOLUME.

LONDON PRINTED BY JAMES MOYES, CASTLE STRLEI,

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