| Francis Gastrell (bp. of Chester) - 1717 - 352 pages
...may know how ye ought to anfwer every Man. 8 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. Heb. i2. i. a Luke i. 6. 2 Cht. 3i. 2o. Num. i4. 24. Luke i.6. hi Tim. 6. u, i2. Col. 4. i2. ' Phil.... | |
| Joseph Butler - 1726 - 340 pages
...the Government of the Tongue. JAMES i. 26. If any Man among you jeem to be religions, and bridleth not his Tongue, but deceiveth his own Heart, this Man's Religion is vain. THE Tranflation of this Text would Ser. IV. be more determinate if it were rendered more literally... | |
| Samuel Clarke, John Clarke - 1729 - 340 pages
...Speaking. And Eph.iv.3i. declares, that if any man feem to be reli- Jain.i.z6. gious, and bridleth not his Tongue, but deceiveth his own heart ; this man's religion is vain. Our Saviour likewife admonifhes us : Judge not, that ye be not Matt. vii. judged. i. P 3 UNDE R •... | |
| 1737 - 468 pages
...Jew can boaft of his Mofaicd Inftitution. 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. 27 Pure Religion, afad undefiled bsfore God and the Father, is this, to vifit die fatherlefs and widows... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1799 - 446 pages
...Jacob's, while the hands are E/au's. But, ' If any man among you feem to be rpligirus, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain,' Jarnes\. 26. The power of gcdlinefs will rule over the tongue (hough a world of iniquity, if one be... | |
| John Tillotson - 1748 - 436 pages
...vain. So the fame Apoitle tells us, chap. 5. 26. If any man among ymfeem to be religion!, and l>ridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. For the more diftinct handling of this argument, I fhall reduce my difcourle to thefe five heads. i.... | |
| John Tillotson - 1757 - 498 pages
...words, and ordering of our lives, ver. 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. Pure reli" gion, and undefiled before GOD and the FA* ** THER is this, to vifit the fatherlefs and widow... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1764 - 394 pages
...amongft you feemethto be religious feetneth to be, . for truly religious he cannot be, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. This is the full fo°rce of St. James's reafoning, upon which I have dwelt the more, it being the foundation,... | |
| 1765 - 410 pages
...work, this man ihall be blefled in his deed. If any man ameng you fcem to be religious, and bridlet'i not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion, and uncienled before Grd and the Father, is this, To vifit the fatheikfs and widows in their affliftion,... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1775 - 228 pages
...amongft youfeemeth to be religious feemeth to be, for truly religious he cannot be, — and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. This is the full force of St. James's reafoning, upon which I have dwelt the more, it being the foundation,... | |
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