 | Adam Batty - 1740 - 648 sider
...endeavour to purify our Thoughts, unlefa we likewife purify our Difcourfe ; bccaufe he who feemetb to be Religious and bridleth not his Tongue, that Man's Religion is vain, faith the Apoftle ; and we cannot be guilty of a greater Profanation of our Lord's Supper, than by... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1757 - 498 sider
...plainly that the chriftian religion obligeth men " to put off all thefe ;" and that " if any man feem to be religious and bridleth " not his tongue, that man's religion is vain ?" Do men read and hear thefe things everyday, and profefs to believe them to be the truths of GOD,... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1760 - 370 sider
...our Words we Jhall be condemned ; fince fo great a Strefs is laid upon this, that, if any Man feemeth to be religious and bridleth not his Tongue* that Man's Religion is vain ; how earneft mould the Confederation of thefe Things make us in our dailySupplications to God, that,... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1777 - 528 sider
...vanity ; the word imports frujtration and difappointment ; difappointment ; Jam. i. 26. If any manfeem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, that man's religion is vain ; that is, he will be difappointed ; he deceiveth himfclf. Thus the world is a cheat and a deceiver.... | |
 | Jacob Duché - 1779 - 452 sider
...A FOR" GETFUL HEARER, BUT A DOER ** OF THE WORK, THIS MAN SHALL 03 "BE r " BE BLESSED IN HIS DEED. IF " ANY MAN AMONG YOU SEEM TO " BE RELIGIOUS, AND BRIDLETH " NOT HIS TONGUE, BUT DECEIV" ETH HIS OWN HEART, THIS " MAN'S RELIGION is VAIN. PURE " RELIGION, AND UNDEFILED BE" FORE... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1794 - 540 sider
...6. All is vanity ; the word imports fruftration and difappointment ; James i. 26. " If any man feem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, that man's religion is vain;" that is, he will be difappointed; he deceiveth himfelf. Thus the world is a cheat and a deceiver. 7.... | |
 | William Enfield, John Aikin - 1798 - 488 sider
...malignity of difpofition wholly inconfiftent with a religious character. " If any man among you feem to be religious and bridleth not his tongue, that man's religion is vain.'* " The mouth that flandereth flayeth the foul." But the iniquity and folly of flander are too obvious to require... | |
 | 1805 - 590 sider
...must be done. The apostlw James says, " That faith without works is dead." " And if any man seemeth to be religious and bridleth not his tongue, that man's religion is vain. Pure religion, and undefiled before God and the Father, is to visit the widow and the Fatherless in... | |
 | 1802 - 374 sider
...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... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1803 - 484 sider
...; 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 ; the forgivenefs of injuries... | |
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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. 
