| John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 530 pages
...iii. 2. Let every man be swift to bear, «low to speak, &c. 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. — James i. 19. 26. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle... | |
| Christian literature, English - 1847 - 390 pages
...criterion of their sincerity, when he says, " If any man among you seem to be religious, and briclleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." This passage should not be thought a hard saying, for it stands in the Bible ; but, because it stands... | |
| John Milton - Dogma - 1825 - 794 pages
...heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men. James i. 26, 27. 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 undejiled before God and the Father is this, To msit the fatherless and widows in... | |
| Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1825 - 506 pages
...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 "." 3. I did not say that godliness alone is all that you must look after : though this be the first,... | |
| Church of England - 1825 - 432 pages
...doer of the work, tins man shall be blessed in his deed. If any man among vou seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion, and undented before God and the Father, is this, To visit the fatherless and widows... | |
| Thomas Scott - Sermons, English - 1825 - 632 pages
...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 the fatherless and widows... | |
| Henry Forster Burder - Religious thought - 1825 - 388 pages
...indispensably requisite ; for the same Apostle has said — " 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 Governmentofthe Tongue, then, it is absolutely necessary to attain ; and he who acquires it in... | |
| George Townsend - 1825 - 808 pages
...of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed !S. 26 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. 27 Pure religion, and undefiled before God and the Father, is this, To visit the fatherless and widows... | |
| John Milton - Theology, Doctrinal - 1825 - 472 pages
...heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men.' James i. 26, 27. ' 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 the fatherless and widows... | |
| John McDowell - Theology, Doctrinal - 1825 - 560 pages
...x. 18. By which he meant a wicked man. And James wrote, " 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." Jam. j. 2(i. In these texts the evil speaker may see his character and situation. He is a wicked man... | |
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