 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1783 - Страниц: 468
...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 - Страниц: 308
...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 - Страниц: 470
...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, 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... | |
 | Catherine D'Oyly - 1794 - Страниц: 748
...; 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 - Страниц: 504
...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 - Страниц: 152
...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 - Страниц: 584
...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, 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 - Страниц: 588
...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... | |
 | John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - 1802 - Страниц: 606
...as founding brafs, or a 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... | |
 | 1802 - Страниц: 374
...con:inueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed 26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not bis tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefi;ed... | |
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Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. 
