 | Laurence Sterne - 1783 - 308 sidor
...down ; he fleeth alfo 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... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1783 - 468 sidor
...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... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1787 - 470 sidor
...tongue where there is 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...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 sidor
...moft want and fhould 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,... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1799 - 504 sidor
...without works is 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 sidor
...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 - 588 sidor
...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 we ihall... | |
 | John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - 1802 - 606 sidor
...not charity, " I am become as founding brafs, or a tinkling cymbal." And the apoflle James i. 26. " If any man among you " feem to be religious, and bridleth...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... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1803 - 566 sidor
...if any man amongft you feemeth to be religious feemeth to be, fof 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. Jamesss reafoning, upon which I have dwelt the more, it being the... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1803 - 306 sidor
...if any man amongft 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 — This is the full force of St. James's reafoning, upon which I have dwelt the more, it being the... | |
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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. 
