 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1783 - 468 sayfa
...intended as a comment upon it. The words I mean are thefc : " If " any man among you," fays he, " feem to be " religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but " deceiveth his own heart, that, man's reli" gion is vain *." Here, you fee, is a fpecification of one particular point (that... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1783 - 308 sayfa
...Jhadow, and continueth not. SERMON XL p. 209. Evil -Speaking. JAMES I. ^6. If any man among you feem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own hearty that man's religion is vain. SERMON XII. p. 229. Jofeph's Hiftory confidered. Forgivenefs of... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1787 - 470 sayfa
...falle heart The voice may be Jacob's, while the hands are E/liu's. But, *• If any man among you feem to be religious, " and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's " religion is vain," James i. 26 ' '1 he power of godlinefs will rule over the tongue, though... | |
 | Catherine D'Oyly - 1794 - 748 sayfa
...; if we are addicted to pride and paffion, (of which St. James fays, " If any man " among you feem to be religious and " bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his " own heart, that man's religion is vain,")-, then humility and meeknefs are what we fhould afk for. In like manner,... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1799 - 504 sayfa
...alfo." The fame apoftle advances the following excellent maxim, ch. i. 26. " If any man among you feem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain. Pure religion, and undefiled, before God and the Father, is this, To vifit... | |
 | 1801 - 584 sayfa
...fenfibly infenfible." Mr. D. might as well carp at the text in St. James ; " If any man among you feem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." A text, for more reafons than one, not undeferving our cobler's confideration.... | |
 | John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - 1802 - 606 sayfa
...as founding brafs, or a tinkling cymbal." And the apoflle James i. 26. " If any man among you " feem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but " deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." It is an awful defcription given us by our Saviour, Matth. •vii. 22. " Many... | |
 | 1802 - 374 sayfa
...con:inueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed 26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not bis tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefi;ed... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1803 - 484 sayfa
...; and that when he has learned his duty, bis only buftnefs is to prafiife it. XLVIII. JAMES, I. 26. IF ANY MAN AMONG YOU SEEM TO BE RELIGIOUS, AND BRIDLETH NOT HIS TONGUE, THAT MAN'S RELIGION is VAIN. HTHE fcripture propofes various tefts of religion. Charity is a teft ;... | |
 | John Smalley - 1803 - 454 sayfa
...with his'tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor." And the following words of the apostle James ; " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, — that man's religion is vain." A just man is no slanderer or reviler ; nor one that will go beyond... | |
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If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. 
