 | Laurence Sterne - 1803 - 566 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1803 - 484 pàgines
...; and that when he has learned his duty, bis only buftnefs is to prafiife it. XLVIII. JAMES, I. 26. IF ANY MAN AMONG YOU SEEM TO BE RELIGIOUS, AND BRIDLETH NOT HIS TONGUE, THAT MAN'S RELIGION is VAIN. HTHE fcripture propofes various tefts of religion. Charity is a teft ;... | |
 | John Smalley - 1803 - 454 pàgines
...with his'tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor." And the following words of the apostle James ; " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, — that man's religion is vain." A just man is no slanderer or reviler ; nor one that will go beyond... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pàgines
...he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth...deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father, is this, To visit the fatherless and widows... | |
 | William Huntington - 1804 - 606 pàgines
...apostle that says, " Be not many masters, lest ye receive tie greater condemnation," saith also, " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth...deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." James i. 26. Let our author meditate upon it in his leisure moments. QUOT. — "Can you believe, courteous... | |
 | 1804 - 438 pàgines
...he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, butdeceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. 27 Pure religion, and undefiled before God... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1806 - 686 pàgines
...forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man ihall be bleffed in his deed. If any man among you feem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but...is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father, is this, To vifit the fatherlefs and widows in their affliction, and to keep himfelf unfpotted... | |
 | 1806 - 416 pàgines
...far from " ministering grace to the hearers," we shall only provoke the imputation of hypocrisy. " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, this man's religion is vain." But by a steadfast adherence to.the course, recommended in the text,... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1806 - 478 pàgines
...that when he has learned his duty, his only bujinefe is to praftife it. XLVIII. JAMES, i. 26. IF AMY MAN AMONG YOU SEEM TO BE RELIGIOUS, AND BRIDLETH NOT HIS TONGUE, THAT MAN'S RELIGION IS VAIN. THE Scripture propofes various tefts of religion. Charity is a teft; the... | |
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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. 
