| 1779 - 688 pages
...this man fhall be bit-fled in his deed. I: any man among you feem to be religious, and bridleth no: his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion, and undefiled before God and the Father, is this : To vifit the fatherlefs and wid.... | |
| Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1783 - 468 pages
...almoft 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 pages
...as a 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 pages
...a 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,...deceiveth his own heart, this man's " religion is vain," James i. 26 ' '1 he power of godlinefs will rule over the tongue, though a -world rf iniquity. If one... | |
| Catherine D'Oyly - 1794 - 748 pages
...pray for ; 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,... | |
| Ralph Erskine - 1794 - 540 pages
...appears to be. 6. All is vanity ; the word imports fruftration and difappointment ; James i. 26. " If any man feem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, that man's religion is vain;" that is, he will be difappointed; he deceiveth himfelf. Thus the world... | |
| Joseph Priestley - 1799 - 504 pages
...dead 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... | |
| François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon (abp. of Cambrai.) - 1800 - 152 pages
...beloved by him. THIRD DAY. ON TRUE DEVOTION. IF any man amongyou seem to be religious, andbridlethnot his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. St. James i. 26. How often men deceive themselves by vain religion. Some think it consist in a multiplicity... | |
| 1801 - 584 pages
...were 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,...deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." A text, for more reafons than one, not undeferving our cobler's confideration. From this fingular performance... | |
| 1801 - 588 pages
...infenfible." Mr. D. might as well carp at the text in St. James ; " If any man among you fiem to be reKgiviu, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." A text, for more reafpns than one, not undeièrving our cobler's confldecation. From this ungular performance... | |
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