 | Whole duty - 1777 - 582 pages
...anger, clamour, and evil-fpeaking : and declares, that if any man feem to be religious, 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 judged. It may be a{ked, whether it... | |
 | 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. ws in their affliction,... | |
 | Jacob Duché - 1779 - 452 pages
...ourfelves, and made manifeft to others. " 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. He here gives us, in the firft place, a kind of negative proof, by which we may know, whether we have... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1783 - 308 pages
...you feemeth 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.T- — This is the full force of St. James's reafoning, upon which I have dwelt the more, it being... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1787 - 470 pages
...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 a -world rf iniquity. If one... | |
 | Robert Woodward - 1791 - 224 pages
...and in fubduing our paffions. St. Paul, in his ift epiftle to Tim. i ft chap, and 27th verfe, fays, Pure religion and undented before God and the Father is this, to vifit the fatherlefs and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himfelf unfpotted from the world. There... | |
 | 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
...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. From this fingular performance... | |
 | 1801 - 588 pages
...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... | |
 | John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - 1802 - 606 pages
...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 will fay to me in that... | |
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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. 
