Isagoge in canonicas septem epistolas

passage is on faith to be adorned by works, and this passage plainly pertains to the general sentiment, against those for whom the name of faith was more frequent on the tongue than the examples of good works in their morals. The fourth passage is in chapter 3, on the vices of the tongue and the benefits of the same, so that he might repress the greed for teaching in some. The fifth passage is against contentions and similar vices, which arose from pleasures, such as anger, detraction, envy, and emulation. The sixth is against the presumption of the mouth in daily speech. That passage is treated in chapter 4, from verse 13 to the end. The seventh is on the duties of the rich and the poor, who themselves also in either fortune ought to adorn their profession. In the rich, he requires liberality, attacking confidence, greed, and fraud. In the poor, however, he demands patience by the example of the Prophets and Job; likewise, that they not murmur, whether against God or against the greedier rich. The remaining things pertain again to all orders, such as that one must not swear...