| Francis Gastrell (bp. of Chester) - 1717 - 352 pages
...Salt, that ye may know how ye ought to anfwer every Man. 8 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. Heb. i2. i. a Luke i. 6. 2 Cht. 3i. 2o. Num. i4. 24. Luke i.6. hi Tim. 6. u, i2. Col. 4. i2. ' Phil.... | |
| Joseph Butler - 1726 - 340 pages
...SERMON IV. Upon the Government of the Tongue. JAMES i. 26. If any Man among you jeem to be religions, and bridleth not his Tongue, but deceiveth his own Heart, this Man's Religion is vain. THE Tranflation of this Text would Ser. IV. be more determinate if it were rendered more literally... | |
| Samuel Clarke, John Clarke - 1729 - 340 pages
...Clamour, and -evil Speaking. And Eph.iv.3i. declares, that if any man feem to be reli- Jain.i.z6. gious, 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 Matt. vii. judged. i. P 3 UNDE R •... | |
| 1737 - 470 pages
...the Zealot Jew can boaft of his Mofaicd Inftitution. 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. 27 Pure Religion, afad undefiled bsfore God and the Father, is this, to vifit die fatherlefs and widows... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1799 - 446 pages
...»oiee may be Jacob's, while the hands are E/au's. But, ' If any man among you feem to be rpligirus, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain,' Jarnes\. 26. The power of gcdlinefs will rule over the tongue (hough a world of iniquity, if one be... | |
| John Tillotson - 1748 - 436 pages
...vain. So the fame Apoitle tells us, chap. 5. 26. If any man among ymfeem to be religion!, and l>ridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. For the more diftinct handling of this argument, I fhall reduce my difcourle to thefe five heads. i.... | |
| François Cheneau - 1754 - 278 pages
...work, this man fhall be bleffed in his deed. If any man among you feem to be religious, and bridle not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undented before God and the Father, is this; to vifit tbe fatherlefs and widows in... | |
| John Tillotson - 1757 - 498 pages
...government of our words, and ordering of our lives, ver. 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. Pure reli" gion, and undefiled before GOD and the FA* ** THER is this, to vifit the fatherlefs and... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1760 - 272 pages
...man amongft you, feemeth to be religious, — feemeth to be, — for truly religious he cannot fo — and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's re^ 1/gion is vain. ~ This is the full force of St. James's reafoning, upon which I have dwelt the... | |
| Laurence Sterne - 1764 - 394 pages
...good convention, with meeknefs ot wifdom. But if any man amongft you feemethto be religious feetneth to be, . for truly religious he cannot be, and bridleth...religion is vain. This is the full fo°rce of St. James's reafoning, upon which I have dwelt the more, it being the foundation, upon which is grounded this clear... | |
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