...the greatest stress, as necessary to salvation. But St. James tells us, that " if any man among us seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain :" and that " pure religion, and undefiled before God the Father, is this'...

...Religion, seek for something, which has no relations :to it. "If any man among you," says James, "sewn <o be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." When religion is supposed to be'a certain supernatural something, which no one can communicate, and...

...evil practice, all our religion is vain. So St. James expressly tells us, If any man among you seemeth to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain. St. Paul puts slanderers amongst those that shall not inherit the kingdom...

...therein ; he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the word, this man shall be blessed in his deed. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth...heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure religion, and undented before God and the Father, is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction,...

...that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth." James i. 26, " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth...deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." Chap. iii. 14, 15, " If ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against...

...to all, who make profession of the Gospel, a searching criterion of their sincerity, when he says, " If any " man among you, seem to be religious, and...not his tongue, but deceiveth his own " heart, this roan's religion is vain." This passage should not be thought a hard saying, for it stands in the Bible...

...obsceneness, shocked with oaths, or overpowered with scandalous abuse. Well might the apostle write, If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, that man's religion is vain. If we consider these vices of the tongue in the order of their enormity,...

...decorous, even by the professors of religion. Now all this is not only wrong, but fatally wrong. " If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain." " By thy words thou shalt be justified,...

...laid the greatest stress, as necessary to salvation. But St James tells us, that " if any man among us seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain." And that pure religion, and undefiled before God the Father, is this...

...the greatest stress, as necessary to salvation. But St. James tells us, that " if any man among us seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain :" and that " pure religion, and undented before God the Father, is this...