 | Thomas Scott - 1830 - 612 pages
...have chosen for the subject of our present meditation, and concludes with these remarkable words; " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth...and to keep himself unspotted from the world." The religion which God approves, when viewed apart from the principles whence it springs, and the ordinances... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 pages
...being yourselves ako in 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...is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1830 - 482 pages
...whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being nota forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed...to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceivetb his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion and undented before God and the... | |
 | Ambrose Serle - 1830 - 232 pages
...but its own wretchedness and ruin. The apostle hath a striking hint for professors of religion : " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth...deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." What is our end in religious conversation ? If we speak without a purpose, surely it is folly. If we... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 512 pages
...untamed is inconsistent with true godliness : such persons may talk and profess what they please ; but " if any man among you seem to be religious and bridleth...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 : though this be the first,... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1830 - 588 pages
...smooth tongue where there 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...deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." The power of godliness will rule over the tongue, though a world of iniquity. The fruits of holiness... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 518 pages
...charge! What a decision ! How many thousands does this righteous sentence unchristian ajid condemn ! " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth...deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." Again ; the same writer tells us, «* If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1831 - 666 pages
...If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth." " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth...deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." " If ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty and continueth Hierein, he being not a forgetful hearer , and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye...ways. And he pressed upon them greatly, and they undented before God and the Father is this ; to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction,... | |
 | 1833 - 82 pages
...whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed...is vain. Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father, is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted... | |
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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. Pure religion, and undefiled before God and the Father, is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction,... 
