Footnotes

1. James 5:12 Because even the best men sometimes through impatience break out into oaths sometimes lesser, sometimes greater, the Apostle warneth us to detest such wickedness, and to accustom our tongues to simple and true talk.
2. James 5:12 That that you have to say or affirm, speak or affirm it simply, and without an oath: and that that you will deny, deny it simply and flatly.
3. James 5:13 He showeth the best remedy against all afflictions, to wit, prayers which have their place both in sorrow and joy.
4. James 5:14 He showeth peculiarly, to what physicians especially we must go, when we are diseased, to wit, to the prayers of the Elders, which then also could cure the body, (for so much as the gift of healing was then in force) and take away the chiefest cause of sickness and diseases, by obtaining for the sick through their prayers and exhortations, remission of sins.
5. James 5:14 This was a sign of the gift of healing: and now seeing we have the gift no more, the sign is no longer necessary.
6. James 5:14 By calling on the Name of the Lord.