Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsJames 4

Purify your hearts.

^◦ Man (we see here) maketh himself clean and purgeth his own heart. Which derogateth nothing to the grace of God being the principal cause of the same. Yet Protestants think we derogate from Christ's Passion, when we attribute such effects to our own works, or to other secondary helps and causes.

• ◦ Man's working with God's grace, is no derogation thereunto.