 | Benjamin Beddome - Baptists - 1807 - 546 pages
...you. To which I may add, that many profess to love God whose hearts are estranged from him. They love in word and in tongue, but not in deed and in truth. True love to God implies in it the profoundest veneration, highest esteem, and most perfect complacency,... | |
 | William Jay - Meditations - 1829 - 538 pages
...the pride of our feelings or manners. But this is not to love without dissimulation. This is to love in word, and in tongue; but not in deed, and in truth. Many have lost all credit here, by their unfeeling, distant, and disdainful conduct towards their inferiors,... | |
 | Arthur Roberts - 1799 - 278 pages
...each other by titles and endearment when we do not really love each other — when our affection is " in word and in tongue," but not "in deed and in truth." But is it so with God ? Is his favour to his people confined to the titles which he gives them ? No... | |
 | William Jay - Devotional calendars - 1856 - 650 pages
...the pride of our feelings or manners. But this is not to love without dissimulation. This is to love in word and in tongue ; but not in deed and in truth. Many have lost all credit here, by their unfeeling, distant, and disdainful conduct towards their inferiors,... | |
 | 1859 - 1556 pages
...mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness." This is what John calls loving in word and in tongue, but not in deed and in truth, and is a dissembled love. But although this may appear very fair to look at, judging according to appearance,... | |
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... condition of a fellow-creature requires it. We may profess to do this in the abstract, but refuse to afford the actual assistance called for in particular instances, because the office is too mortifying to the pride of our feelings or manners. But... 