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Will you not leave the small arguments (λογάρια)He names these small arguments λογάρια, which Cicero (Tusc. Disput. ii. 12) names ratiunculae. about these matters to others, to lazy fellows, that they may sit in a corner and receive their sorry pay, or grumble that no one gives them any thing; and will you not come forward and make use of what you have learned? For it is not these small arguments that are wanted now: the writings of the Stoics are full of them. What then is the thing which is wanted? A man who shall apply them, one who by his acts shall bear testimony to his words.What is the profit, my brethren, if any one should say that he hath faith and have not works?. . . . . . Thus also faith, if it hath not works, is dead in itself. But a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.—Epistle of James, ii. 14–18. Assume, I intreat you, this character, that we may no longer use in the schools the examples of the antients, but may have some example of our own.
