 | Laurence Sterne - 1766 - 326 sider
...amongft you feemeth to be religious —feemeth to be,—for truly religious he cannot be, and brtdleth 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 foundation... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1775 - 228 sider
...if any man amongft youfeemeth 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 foundation,... | |
 | Whole duty - 1777 - 582 sider
...bitternefs, anger, clamour, and evil-fpeaking : and declares, that if any man feem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own...likewife admonifhes us : Judge not, that ye be not judged. It may be a{ked, whether it be lawful to fpeak ill of the dead ? and the anfwer is, that it... | |
 | Jacob Duché - 1779 - 452 sider
...infallible touch-flone : " If any man feem to be religious;" that is, feem to himfelf or others, to be fo, " and bridleth not his tongue, " but deceiveth his own heart, this " man's religion is vain." Whenever, therefore, O man ! thou obferveft in thyfelf or others, a difpofition to talk and boaft much... | |
 | 1779 - 688 sider
...this man fhall be bit-fled in his deed. I: any man among you feem to be religious, and bridleth no: his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion, and undefiled before God and the Father, is this : To vifit the fatherlefs and wid.... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1783 - 308 sider
...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.T- — This is the full force of St. James's reafoning, upon which I have dwelt the more, it being... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1787 - 470 sider
...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 a -world rf iniquity. If one... | |
 | François de Salignac de la Mothe Fénelon (abp. of Cambrai.) - 1800 - 152 sider
...beloved by him. THIRD DAY. ON TRUE DEVOTION. IF any man amongyou seem to be religious, andbridlethnot his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. St. James i. 26. How often men deceive themselves by vain religion. Some think it consist in a multiplicity... | |
 | 1801 - 588 sider
...infenfible." Mr. D. might as well carp at the text in St. James ; " If any man among you fiem to be reKgiviu, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." A text, for more reafpns than one, not undeièrving our cobler's confldecation. From this ungular performance... | |
 | 1801 - 584 sider
...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. From this fingular performance... | |
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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. 
