 | Timothy Dwight - Congregational churches - 1828 - 536 pages
...Prudence is " watchfulness over the tongue." "My Brethren," says St. James, " if any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own lieart,^Jiut man's religion is vain." And again, " If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect... | |
 | Mrs. Chapone (Hester) - Women - 1829 - 190 pages
...things in St. Panl's writings which have been fatally perverted to the encouragement of a dependence ou faith alone, without good works. But the more rational...man among us seem to be religious, and bridleth not bis tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain :" and that " pure religion, and... | |
 | Church of England - 1829 - 668 pages
...forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 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. Pure religion, and undefiled before God and the Father, is this, To visit... | |
 | Ambrose Serle, Thomas Chalmers - Christian life - 1829 - 316 pages
...wretchedness and ruin. The Apostle hath a striking hint for professors of religion : " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his heart, this man's religion is vain." What is our end in religious conversation? If we speak without... | |
 | Ambrose Serle - Christian life - 1830 - 232 pages
...wretchedness and ruin. The apostle hath a striking hint for professors of religion : " 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." What is our end in religious conversation ? If we speak without a purpose,... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1830 - 612 pages
...subject of our present meditation, and concludes with these remarkable words; " 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. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this ; to visit... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Theological anthropology - 1830 - 588 pages
...is a false heart; 'the voice may be Jacob's/while the hands are Esau's : but " 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." The power of godliness will rule over the tongue, though a world of iniquity.... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...the body. SECTION III. Extracts from the Epistles of James, Peter, and John. 1 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. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit... | |
 | William Henry Rowlatt - Sermons, English - 1830 - 454 pages
...in fact frequently 12 practise, the grossest deception upon ourselves. If any man (says St. James) seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Here we have an exemplification of this doctrine, in a very extensive... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 512 pages
...with true godliness : such persons may talk and profess what they please ; but " 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 V' 3. I did not say that godliness alone is all that you must look after... | |
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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. 
