doth then live in peace within, because it
hath that sweet testimony of conscience, that, as far as did lie in it,
peace was followed without. Divine wisdom (James iii. 17.), "is first
pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and
good fruits, without wrangling and without hypocrisy." If wisdom be
peaceable and not pure, it is but a carnal conspiracy in iniquity, earthly
and sensual. But if it be pure it must be peaceable. For the wisdom
descending from above hath a purity of truth, and a purity of love, and a
purity of the mind and of the affection too. Where there is a purity of
truth, but accompanied with envying, bitter strife, rigid judging,
wrangling, and such like, then it is defiled and corrupted by the
intermixture of vile and base affections, ascending out of the dunghill of
the flesh. The vapours of our lusts arising up to the mind, do stain pure
truth. They put an earthly, sensual, and devilish visage on it.

Charity, its conversation and discourse, is without judging, without
censuring, Matth. vii. 1. Of which chapter, because it contains much
edification, I shall speak more hereafter. James iii. 17. "Without
partiality, without hypocrisy." The words in the original are, {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}
{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}, (without judging and wrangling, and without hypocrisy),
importing, that great censurers are often the greatest hypocrites, and
sincerity has always much charity. Truly, there is much idle time spent
this way in discourses of one another, and venting our judgments of
others, as if it were enough of commendation for us to condemn others, and
much piety to charge another with impiety. We should even be sparing in
judging them that are without, 1 Cor. v. 12, 13. Reflecting upon them or
their ways, hath more provocation than edification in it. A censorious
humou