 | Second Presbyterian Church (Charleston, S.C.) - 1838 - 264 pages
...murderer. — 1 John iii, 15. 5. All who originate or circulate slander of brethren, or of any one else. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth...deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. — James i, 26. He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander. U a fool.—... | |
 | Francis Goode - 1838 - 500 pages
...consider, as a further remedy for this evil, II. The emptiness of all profession, where it is allowed. " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth...deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." Observe, he will not allow that there can be anything more than a seeming to be religious, where the... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1838 - 632 pages
...himself, and secured his own interest and happiness. SERMON IV. UPON THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth...deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain, — James i. 26. THE translation of this text would be more determinate by being more literal, thus... | |
 | Bernhard Jacobi - 1838 - 252 pages
...only a hearer and a self-deceiver. " If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them." Ver. 26. " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth...deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." As it was formerly, so it is now, my brethren. The term " religion," in this passage, appears to be... | |
 | Arthur Philip Perceval - 1839 - 380 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...and to keep himself unspotted from the world." THE evil against which St. James, in these words, designed to caution those to whom he wrote, and against... | |
 | Amelia Opie - 1839 - 220 pages
...stand take heed lest they fall." I would also remind them of the declaration of the apostle James : "If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth...deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." Let me now recapitulate by observing, That that class of persons in society who profess to be under... | |
 | John Hall - 1839 - 508 pages
...described in the text as deceiving their ownselves. The same character is further spoken of in verse 26. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth...deceiveth. his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Those who are hearers of the word of God sfem to be religious, they are found among the worshippers... | |
 | Charles Buchanan Pearson - 1839 - 334 pages
...infinite mercy grant, for the sake of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour ! SERMON III. ST. JAMES i. 26. " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth...deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." THERE are very few persons who are bold enough, deliberately and openly, to confess a determination... | |
 | John Foxe - 1840 - 886 pages
...of Winchester, I was before you, when you took occasion to preach from these words of St James : ' If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth...deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.' From these words, my lord, by wrested inferences, you slander us poor prisoners, upbraiding us with... | |
 | Robert Porten Beachcroft - 1840 - 394 pages
...who are, and who are not, the disciples of Christ. We find them in the text. The tongue will tell. " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth...deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." Here, then, is a deathblow at once to the religion of that man who does not bridle his tongue. If oaths... | |
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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,... 
