her,
that ye may be healed. The energetic prayer of a righteous man is
mightily prevalent. (17)Elias was a man of like feelings with us, and
he prayed fervently that it should not rain; and there fell no rain on
the earth during three years and six months. (18)And he prayed again,
and the heavens gave rain, and the earth shot up its fruit.

(19)Brethren, if any man among you should have erred from the truth,
and one convert him; (20)let him know, that he that converteth a sinner
from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a
multitude of sins.

THE FIRST EPISTLE GENERAL OF PETER THE APOSTLE.

CHAP. I.

PETER, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the sojourners, dispersed through
Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, (2)elect according to
the foreknowledge of God the Father, by sanctification of the Spirit,
that they might be brought to the obedience, and sprinkled with the
blood of Jesus Christ: grace unto you and peace be multiplied.

(3)Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto an
animating hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
(4)for an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading,
reserved in the heavens for you, (5)who are guarded by the omnipotence
of God, through faith to obtain the salvation which is ready to appear
at the last time. (6)Wherein ye exult, though yet for a little space,
(if it must be so,) ye are in sorrow through various trials: (7)that
the test of your faith (much more precious than that of gold, which is
of a perishing nature, though proved by fire) may be found unto praise
and honour and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ: (8)whom though
ye have not seen, ye love; on whom, though ye have not as yet gazed,
yet believing, ye exult with joy unutterable and glorious: (9)receiving
the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls. (10)Concerning
which salvation the prophets eagerly sought and diligently inquired,
who prophesied of the grace which is come to you: (11)investigating to
what time and to what conjuncture the Spirit of Christ in them pointed,
when predicting the sufferings coming upon Christ, and the glories
subsequent thereto. (12)To whom it was revealed, that not for
themselves, but for us were their ministrations employed in the things
which are now declared unto you by those who have preached the gospel
unto you by the Holy Ghost