 | Adam Batty - 1740 - 648 pages
...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 pages
...fo 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 pages
...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 pages
...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.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 pages
...law ; on whicn the Jews laid the greateft llrefs, as neceflary to falvation. But St. James tells us, that, " if any ' man among us feem to be religious, and • bridleth not his tongue, but dtceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain ;" — and that " pure religion, and undefiled... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1794 - 540 pages
...be. 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 pages
...implies a 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... | |
 | 1805 - 590 pages
...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... | |
 | John Smalley - 1803 - 448 pages
...cloeth evil to his neighbor." And the following words of the apostle James; " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, — that man's religion is vain." A just man is no slanderer or reviler; nor one that will go beyond or defraud another, in any matter.... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1803 - 484 pages
...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, that man's religion is vain... 
