...if any man amongft youfeemeth to be religious feemeth to be, for truly religious he cannot be, — and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. This is the full force of St. James's reafoning, upon which I have dwelt the more, it being the foundation,...

...railings, evil-furmifings, bitternefs, anger, clamour, and evil-fpeaking : and declares, that if any man feem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue,...deceiveth his own heart ; this man's religion is vain. Our Saviour likewife admonifhes us : Judge not, that ye be not judged. It may be a{ked, whether it...

...which the Life of GOD in the Soul is to be known and felt by ourfelves, and made manifeft to others. " If any man among you feem to be " religious, and bridleth...deceiveth his own heart, this " man's religion is vain. He here gives us, in the firft place, a kind of negative proof, by which we may know, whether we have...

...this man fhall be bit-fled in his deed. I: any man among you feem to be religious, and bridleth no: 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 vifit the fatherlefs and wid....

...down ; he fleeth alfo as a Jhadow, and continueth not. SERMON XL p. 209. Evil -Speaking. JAMES I. ^6. If any man among you feem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own hearty that man's religion is vain. SERMON XII. p. 229. Jofeph's Hiftory confidered. Forgivenefs of...

...almoft intended as a comment upon it. The words I mean are thefc : " If " any man among you," fays he, " feem to be " religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but " deceiveth his own heart, that, man's reli" gion is vain *." Here, you fee, is a fpecification of one particular point (that...

...moft want and fhould pray for ; if we are addicted to pride and paffion, (of which St. James fays, " If any man " among you feem to be religious and "...bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his " own heart, that man's religion is vain,")-, then humility and meeknefs are what we fhould afk for. In like manner,...

...bridleth not h'is tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain," James i. 26. And fo, if any man among you feem to be religious, and bridleth not his heart, but giveth way .to all carnal thoughts, worldly thoughts, while God is not in all his thoughts;...

...of defamation 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...

...without works is dead alfo." The fame apoftle advances the following excellent maxim, ch. i. 26. " If any man among you feem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, that man's religion is vain. Pure religion, and undefiled, before God and the Father, is this, To vifit...