 | William Lisle Bowles - 1831 - 372 pages
...reflection, be induced to pay a little attention to some texts which require no comment. Among these is, " IF any man among you SEEM to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his OWN HEART, that man's religion is VAIN!" (James, chap, i.) I leave him to settle whether the " IF," in this text,... | |
 | 1832 - 586 pages
...lips out of which nothing but the accents of. Christian love and meekness should ever proceed.—" If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, this man's religion is vain " But further,— Having looked into the law of our God, to learn our duty,... | |
 | Richard Parkinson - 1832 - 380 pages
...and forget the rule which St. James here lays down for distinguishing the one from the other:— " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue" (te wastes that time in useless debate and speculation which ought to be spent in sober practice),... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - 1832 - 258 pages
...remember that no revilers, especially such revilers as persevere in Revilers, govern your tongues. " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, that man's religion is vain," Jam. i. 2i>. Would you govern yourselves well, according to scripture... | |
 | Thomas Watson - 1833 - 794 pages
...tongue sing. 1st Motive. If you have no care of your tongue, all your religion is vain, James L 26, " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, this man's religion is vain." Many a one will hear the word, and make a profession of religion, but... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1833 - 574 pages
...think himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself*." And again ; " If any man seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vainV Of such persons there is little, if any, hope : because they imagine themselves... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1833 - 702 pages
...my ways, that I sin not with my tongue, Ps. xxxix. 1. Is he a good Christian that does not? No: for infinitely wise? Ҽ ' 0 ,T that man's religion is vain, James i. 2(l. Must we therefore pray to God to keep us from tongue-sins... | |
 | 1834 - 680 pages
...out of your mouth." Colos. ill. 8. " Neither let filthiness be once named among }ou." Eph. v. 3, 4. " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but dcceiveth hi* own heart, this man's religion is vaiu." James, i. 26. ment*. Well regulated enthusiasm... | |
 | 1835 - 330 pages
...such effects. He insists upon the indispensable necessity of virtuous conduct. He tells us, that, ' if any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain.' And that pure religion, and undefiled before God and the Father, is this... | |
 | James Slade - 1835 - 578 pages
...the realms of eternal glory. * John vi. 68. SERMON X. THE DUTY OP BRIDLING THE TOXGUK. JAMES i. 20. If any man among you seem to be religious and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, that man"s religion is vain. IN explaining and inculcating the gospel, there are two opposite errors,... | |
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If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain. 
