 | Laurence Sterne - 1780 - 480 pages
...SERMON XI. Evil - Speaking. JAMES I. 26. If any man among you fcem to be religious, and bri. dleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain. F the many duties owing both to God and our neighbour, there are fcarce any men fo bad, as not to acquit... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1783 - 520 pages
...fts a comment upon it—' If any man among you feem to be •< Aug. Op. torn. ii. ep. 15 ad llieron. religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is <vain.'—Here is a fpecification of one particular point, that of evil fpeaking, in which the apoftle... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - Sermons, English - 1783 - 468 pages
...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 of evilr fpeakingj.... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1783 - 308 pages
...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 - Salvation - 1787 - 470 pages
...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... | |
 | Catherine D'Oyly - 1794 - 748 pages
...; 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...his " own heart, that man's religion is vain,")-, then humility and meeknefs are what we fhould afk for. In like manner, \ve Qqq fhould fhould examine... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1795 - 540 pages
...the worft of all cheats that cheat themfelves ; "• If any man among you feem to be religiousyand bridleth not h'is tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain," James i. 26. And fo, if any man among you feem to be religious, and bridleth not his heart, but giveth... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - Apologetics - 1799 - 504 pages
...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 the fatherlefs and widows... | |
 | 1801 - 584 pages
...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.... | |
 | John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - Presbyterian Church - 1802 - 606 pages
...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.... | |
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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. 
