Mace(i)
21 throw off then your vices as dregs and scum: and receive with docility that genuine doctrine, which is effectual to your salvation.
22 Don't delusively content your selves with being of the audience, but put what you hear in practice:
23 for a bare auditor without practice is like one who sees his image form'd by a mirror:
24 he takes a view, turns away, and instantly loses his appearance.
25 whereas, he that attentively considers the perfect law of liberty, and is attach'd thereto, he is not a forgetful hearer, but reduces it to practice, and his conduct is crown'd with hapiness.
26 If a person of an ungovernable tongue pretends to religion, he abuses himself: for his religion is meer illusion.
27 pure and unadulterated religion, in the eye of God our father, consists in taking care of orphans and widows in their distress: and in keeping clear of the vices of the age.